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Here is your Poetry News for the week of January 14, 2008.
Spoken word events are melting with the thawing snow over the Pioneer Valley and beyond.

Please email if you would like to be added to the mailing
or are interested in featuring at Jester's.
Peace through poetry - Lori

Word in Westfield:

Community Voices Poetry Open Mic
EVERY MONDAY NIGHT
at Jester's Cafe and Deli
124 Elm Street (route 10/202)
in Westfield, MA

Sign up is at 6:30 and open mic starts at 7:00PM
followed by a guest feature.
All are welcome.
This venue is PG 13

Upcoming Feature Poets:

Monday January 14 - Sixth Anniversary Celebration featuring Dave Keali'i !!!!

Monday January 21 - Duende, Tony Brown's musical/spoken word groups


We are now booking features for February.
Please email if you haven't featured in
at least 6 months and would like to return,
or if you would be interested in featuring for the first time at Jester's.

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Chicopee/Holyoke/Springfield Poetry

Western New England College
To Host Poetry Reading January 28

Western New England College and Writers Spring Forth will host a reading featuring poets Lynne Thompson of Los Angeles, Gene Zeiger of Shelburne Falls, and Laura Chagnon of West Springfield on Monday, January 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the St. Germain Campus Center Bear’s Den. The event is free and open to the public.

Lynne Thompson is the 2007 winner of the Perugia Press First Book Prize for Beg No Pardon. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she authored the chapbooks We Arrive By Accumulation and Through a Window and her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Voices from Leimert Park and Blue Arc West, An Anthology of California Poets. Thompson is an attorney and holds the position of Director of Employee & Labor Relations at UCLA.

Gene Zeiger’s memoir, How I Find Her: A Mother’s Dying and a Daughter’s Life, was released in May 2001 by Sherman Asher Publishing of Santa Fe. After being highly praised in “O,” Oprah’s magazine, Hadassah Magazine, and by many other reviewers, it is now in its second printing. It was also published in Germany by Kindler-Verlag in the spring of 2003. Her second memoir, “Atta Girl” was published in 2005. Zeiger, a frequent commentator for NPR, including All Things Considered, is also the winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award for poetry. She has published three collections of poems, Sudden Dancing, (A.W.A. Press) and Leaving Egypt, Radio Waves, (White Pine Press). She is a creative writing workshop leader in Shelburne, and the poetry editor for Sanctuary, Massachusetts’ Audubon's magazine. A regular contributor to The Sun, her poems, stories and personal essays have also appeared in dozens of magazines including The New York Times Book Review, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Tikkun.

Laura Chagnon has been writing poetry since 1993. Her works explore the reality of living with loss and pain, of beauty and hope, and her love of nature. After an accident in 1989, at age 26, Laura woke from a five-week coma quadriplegic and legally blind. She spent the next three years in rehabilitation hospitals. Laura has never put one word of poetry on paper with her own hand nor has she seen her words in print. She dictates her poems to her personal care assistants. Her poems have appeared in local and national publications. In 1996, the Community United Way of Pioneer Valley chose her poems to be used in the agency’s televised public service announcements. Laura resides with her family in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

This reading is the first of five reading events at the Bear’s Den sponsored by Western New England College and Writers Spring Forth, a women’s writing group that meets weekly in Springfield. Additional sponsorship is provided by Blue Moon Coffee Roasters of Springfield. The purpose of the reading series is to bring forth local and outside writer’s voices to the greater Springfield audiences. The readings will feature many writers from Springfield, Western Massachusetts, New York, Boston, and other cities. Raffles of the authors’ books and items will take place following the reading. There will be an opportunity to buy copies of the authors’ books as well.

Women's Writing Group,
Mondays, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Springfield location,
beginners welcome, leader trained in Amherst Writers & Artists method,
for information call 413-737-4262

GUMBOLIVE
Has moved to Hartford, CT
See CT POETRY below for details!

Springfield Library Events

Springfield Library Poetry Page:
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/poetry/poetrypage.html
Or contact Anna at or 413.263.6828 x426.

Bookmark the Poetry Page http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/poetry/poetrypage.html
for updated information, and to read the work of some of our poets
(anyone who's read at events here, send a poem to be posted!)


Word in the Valley and Beyond

2 SLATE ROOF POETS
Susan Middleton & Susie Patlove
will be featured readers during the
Science & Nature Prose & Poetry
Open Mike Night

Friday, January 25, 2008
(snow date: Friday Feb 1, 2008)
7:00 pm
(doors open at 6:30 pm)
held in the Great Hall of the
Great Falls Discovery Center
2 Avenue A
Turners Falls, MA

Handicap-accessible.
Drinks & light refreshments will be for sale
(proceeds support science & nature programming at GFDC).

Copies of Susan's chapbook Seed Case of the Heart, and Susie's chapbook,
Quickening (both published by Slate Roof Press, www.slateroofpress.com),
will be available for sale and signing after the reading.

For more information (including directions and in case of bad weather
to confirm whether the event is postponed till the snow date),
contact GFDC at 413.863.3321 (ext 3)
or visit www.greatfallsma.org

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center,
U.S. Fish & Wildlife, and Massachusetts Department of Recreation and Conservation.


SPOKEN WORD GREENFIELD
Tuesday January 22, 2008
At 9 Mill St in Greenfield
Doors open at 7:00
Open Mike at 7:30
Feature Readers Paul Richmond and David Lovelace
$1-5 sliding scale cover
Book signing and selling of local writers works will be available
Refreshments
Come up to read
Bring your chap books to sell
We will have tables at no cost
We hope to do Spoken Word Greenfield once a month
Open mike will be five minute slots
With 10 open slots
Have open slots for main readers
Hope to see you there

DEJA BREW
57 LOCKE'S VILLAGE RD.
WENDELL, MA
Open Mic signup: 7:15
Open Mic: 7:15-8
Followed by features

ALL SMALL CAPS
A NIGHT OF SPOKEN WORD
Last Monday of each month Déjà Brew Pub, Wendell MA
Doors open 7:00 p.m.
Featured readers 8:15 - 9:30
All comers are invited to read from their own
work or the works of others, poetry or prose
Admission sliding scale $1 -$5
Deja Brew, between the country store and
Post Office in downtown Wendell
*If you would like to be one of the two presenters
call 978-544-8784
http://www.allsmallcaps.blogspot.com/

EVOLUTION OPEN MIC
The first Thursday of the month
February 7
Open poetry night at 7pm
at
Cafe Evolution
22 Chestnut Street
Florence Mass
phone 413.586.0200

NATURE POETRY WRITING SERIES
with Kathryn Good-Schiff
Wednesdays, February 13 - April 16, 2008, 7 - 9 p.m.
Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst
Poetry about nature can be personal, political, or simply descriptive. During this workshop we will explore ways to write clearly, joyfully, and reverently about nature and our sometimes complicated place in it. Activities will be directed by participant interest, and may include reading, discussions of how to revise, and how to keep up a regular writing practice. We’ll also look at poetry’s life on the page and delve into the details that make verses shine. Come with your ideas and writing-in-progress, and expect to leave with more.
Cost for the series: Member: $140, Non-member: $155
Register by phone (413) 256-6006 or online at http://www.hitchcockcenter.org/


FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY

THE JAN SLAM IS COMING!
the Jan Slam is coming on Sunday afternoon January 27
beginning at 1:00 PM at the Florence Community Center,
140 Pine Street in Florence.

The Florence Poets Society celebrates it's 5th year of existence
with the fourth meeting of the new season on
Thursday January 10th at the Lilly Library in Florence.
Our new starting time is 6:30 pm so that Society business can
be conducted prior to the poetry portion of the meeting,
which will be from 7-9 pm. Regular meetings are held the second
Thursday of every month. An annual membership fee of $15 dollars
contributes to our programs and events, however it is not necessary
to be a member to participate.
All poets are welcome to attend and share original work.
We are always looking for new poets.
Discussion and critique is offered if desired.
Look for our new writing group coming soon.

For more information:
Email us at or check out our web
page at http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/

FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY PRESS PUBLISHES
NEW VERSION OF AWARD-WINNING BOOK
In 2006 Writer's Digest International, for excellence in structure, grammar and design, gave an award to A WINTER OFFERING: Salutations, Verse, Lessons & Prayers, by James Francis Cahillane, of Williamsburg. The Florence Poets Society's expanded version, A SECOND COLLECTION, adds 22 poetic insights on American culture along with political satire for a 50-poem total. A limited signed edition of the two-books-in-one is now on sale in local bookstores, and at Collective Copies. Jim Cahillane is a former Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist and freelance writer. He also wrote The Best Place of All: An Irish-American Memoir of Pluck, Luck & Automobiles (City of Northampton, 2004). Steve Strimer of Collective Copies designed the books.

Florence Poets Society Readings:

Listen to "Twilite's Poetry Pub"
on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Weds from 9-10 am on WXOJ-FM LP
103.3 and streaming at www.valleyfreeradio.org.
Bringing to you a variety of interesting poetry and music!

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All events are free and open to the public except as noted
For more information, Call Tom at (413) 584-5914
or email at: [email protected]
or: [email protected] or visit:
www.florencepoetssociety.org
or visit: http://www.tommytwilite.com/


Poetry Nights in Northampton:

Writer's Group at Packard's in Northampton:
Northampton Writer's Group is an ongoing writer's group
for any kind of written word.
It meets in the library room at Packard's restaurant/bar at
14 Masonic St. in Northampton.
Participants bring copies of their work to read and have
critiqued in a supportive, gentle, constructive environment.
Admission is free, and supper and drinks are available for purchase.
The next dates -
Sunday January 13, 6-9PM
Sunday January 27, 6-9PM

POETRY A LA CARTE
on WMUA-Amherst 91.1 FM
Fridays 4:30-5:00pm
The program, hosted by Daisy Mathias,
includes reading aloud from past
and contemporary poets, and occasionally
features live interview and
poetry-reading with a local poet.


Shelbourne Falls Poetry

Collected Poets Series
Date: Feb 7, Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Mocha Maya’s Coffee House,
47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370,
413-625-6292.

The Collected Poets Series highlights the work of established and emerging poets. Each event, showcasing this area’s finest poets, features readings followed by informal discussions. The series is held every first Thursday of the month.

Contact info: Lea Banks, 20 Severance St., Shelburne Falls, MA 01370, (H) 413.625.6702

Open Mic at the Arms Library
Third Friday of the Month - January 18
Open Prose & Poetry
7:00 pm

Meeting Room
Arms Library
Bridge & Main Sts. Shelburne Falls
Writers of All Ages Most Welcome!
Come and be heard, or just listen to the diverse voices in our community.
Sign ups at beginning of program.

Please take a moment to visit our new web site:
http://www.geocities.com/annieteekski/now.html

The Third Friday Reading Series
at the Arms Library
welcomes you
Bridge and Main Streets,
Shelburne Falls, MA
7—9pm, 3rd Friday of each month
Open reading of poetry and prose.
Come early and sign up for a 5 minute reading.
When a writing group is featured,
the 2nd half of the evening will be an open reading.
Please plan to stay for the entire event.
Refreshments will be served.
(now in its twelfth year!)

For more information, please call Arms Library 625-0306
or Lisa Merrill 625-9765

News from Mo and Ginger Cat Press
JANUARY SALON 11:30AM January 27
102 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls (413 625 6728)
Ginger Cat Press has a new website: http://gingercatpress.com/

Equinox Poetry Journal
The Equinox is available at the Ginger Cat Press website.
Future open mics:
Northfield, Colrain, Easthampton, Hadley, and many more towns near you!

Word in the Berkshires

Stockbridge Booksellers Open Mic
Garfield Reed hosts our bi-monthly open mike poetry night
every other month on the third Thursday of the month.
...The Power of Words. P.O.W. is open to all poets,
writers and performance artists of all types.
We also welcome those less dramatic types who prefer
to watch from the audience. recently we have seen some
amazing young poets come out and wow their audience. Don't miss out!!

WRITING GROUP
Saturday Jan 19, Feb 2 and 16
2:30-4:00pm (join any time during the series)
Fresh Ink: Nature Writing Workshop
Bartholomew’s Cobble, Weatogue Road, Sheffield, MA
Join naturalist and author Tammis Coffin for contemplative walking, looking and listening outdoors and brief writing exercises indoors. We’ll cultivate a fresh, spontaneous response to moment and place. Writers of all levels welcome. Trustees of Reservations Members and Sheffield Residents: FREE. Non-members: $5. Please RSVP to the Trustees of Reservations at 413-229-8600 or .

BOOK GROUP
Saturday Jan 12 and 26, Feb 9 and 23 2:30-4:00pm (join any time during the series)
Reading the Sense of Place
Bartholomew’s Cobble, Weatogue Road, Sheffield, MA
A new Saturday afternoon book group meets two Saturdays in February to explore cultural and natural landscapes of the Southern Berkshires as depicted in various books, poems and essays. First we’ll share ideas for a possible reading list and then we’ll choose what to read. FREE. Please RSVP to the Trustees of Reservations at 413-229-8600 or .

Coming in May……HIKE AND/OR WRITE
Sunday May 4, 9am-11am
Climb Monument Mountain
Explore the unique ecology, geology and beauty of a pale-colored quartzite mountain on a two mile (steep) hike in Great Barrington. Our pace will be slow to photograph and enjoy the wildflowers and the views. Free to all. Please pre-register to 413-298-3239 x 3003.

Sunday May 4, 1pm-4pm
Write at Bartholomew’s Cobble
Enjoy a relaxing afternoon of contemplative walking, watching and listening at a Sheffield site widely known for the diversity of wildflowers and ferns. Trustees of Reservations Members $8. Nonmembers $10. Please pre-register to Tammis at 413-298-3239 x 3003 or via .

Coming in June…CANOE AND WRITE
Sunday June 8, 8:30-11:30am
Paddle the Housatonic River
Join a guided canoe trip on the winding Housatonic to explore the rich and varied river habitats found near Bartholomew’s Cobble in Sheffield. Bring hat, sunscreen, water and binoculars. All other equipment is provided. Please pre-register to or to 413-229-8600. Trustees of Reservations Members $15 Adults Child (10-16) $10, Nonmembers $25 Adults; Child $15.

Sunday June 8, 1-4pm
Write at Bartholomew’s Cobble
Enjoy a relaxing afternoon of contemplative walking, watching and listening at a Sheffield site widely known for the diversity of wildflowers and ferns. Trustees of Reservations Members $8. Nonmembers $10. Please pre-register to Tammis at 413-298-3239 x 3003 or via .

Tammis Coffin
Education & Outreach Coordinator, Berkshires Region
The Trustees of Reservations
P.O. Box 792
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0792
413-298-3239 x 3003

Word Street
is a youth literacy project and creative writing center located at
163 North Street in downtown Pittsfield.
Since 2003, Word Street has offered homework help, tutoring,
MCAS and SAT test prep, creative writing instruction,
mini-magazine publishing, summer camps, and much more to
Berkshire County youth ages 7-18 absolutely free of charge.

"Poets are the theoretical physicists of language.
Rivers of literary magma are flowing just under the
surface all over Berkshire County.
This reading is a volcano."
--Steve Dew

For more information, please contact:
Steve Dew
Development Director
Word Street
163 North Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
( 413) 458-5171 home
(415) 407-3664 mobile
( 413) 997-3307 office
http://www.blogger.com/http://www.blogger.com/

Check out this website for information on spoken word events in Pittsfield:
There are some great events so check it out. http://www.wordstreet.org


Word in Ware:

Carpe Stylum! (Latin for Seize the pen!)
meets every Wednesday 6-8pm, usually at the Ware Library
but some meetings are held elsewhere.
This group includes poets, short story writers, novelists,
historians, political satirists, video game designer and others.
All are welcome.
Call LuWanda Cheney (413) 277-9676 for a schedule.


Word in Worcester:

Worcester Storytellers
meets on the second Friday of each month at the Village Arts Gallery (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature from area poet Dan Lewis. Lewis writes about the everyday but often presents his images and stories with a philosophical twist that not only makes his listeners stop and think but keep on thinking for quite a while.

Sacred Fools Press Submission Call-Out:
Americana Poetry
Send us your poems about American icons and experience.
Drive down that road in that classic car.
Retell the tales of Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.
Deconstruct American Gothic . Get nostalgic. Get
bitter. Show us humor. Political poems given
consideration, but should have a general audience appeal.
Submit poems as text in email and 20 word or less bio
to:
Deadline: January 15th, 2008.

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Shakti Women's Writing Pact
The Shakti Women's Writing Pact meets
every Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at
the Java Hut (1073A Main Street, Worcester).
Shakti was created with the intention of enhancing women's
sense of belonging within the poetry community through the
an unmoderated writing circle.
For more information please contact Sou MacMillan at
[email protected].

POET'S ASYLUM
Venue Update
The Poets' Asylum now meets at The Q, a cafe located at 362 Chandler Street in Worcester. The owners are excited to have us on their schedule and are working with us to make the transition as smooth as possible. Please help spread the word.

Sunday Jan. 13
Join the Asylum this week for the next Open Qualifying Slam of the 2008 Worcester Slam Season. A poetry slam is a performance poetry competition. Anyone can participate. Poets are given three minutes to step up to the mic and perform one original poem of their own construction. Folks chosen from the audience judge the performance and the poetry. The top 2 finishers in tonight's competition move onto the Spring Semi-final in May.

The open mic sign-up list goes out around 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts closer to 7:30 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.

The Poets' Asylum -- in its fifteenth year of
bringing the best in Performance and Slam poetry
to Central Massachusetts and beyond.
http://poetsasylum.org/mailman/listinfo/


THE ECLECTIC WORD, Radio Show
Poet and journalist Victor D. Infante hosts The Eclectic Word, an Internet radio show that will delve into literature's fringe with poets, satirists, alternative journalists and even (gasp!) bloggers. We'll be stepping off the beaten path of literature, taking a close look at the odd, the eccentric and the cutting-edge. Should be fun.

The show will run at 7 p.m. EST the first and third Friday of every month, as part of The World Wide Word Radio Network. You can listen to the shows live, or you can download it later for your listening convenience.So give it a listen! It's going to be a blast!

CT POETRY
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Visit the CT Poet Online calendar,
updated weekly: http://www.poetz.com/connecticut

Innervisions
a poetry workshop group based at the Windsor Library,
will host its first poetry reading
on Monday, January 28 at 7:00.
It will take place on the main floor of the library,
323 Broad St, Windsor, CT,
at the southern end of the town green.
Refreshments will be served! Free and all are welcome.


Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series
Wintonbury Branch Library
1015 Blue Hills Ave.
Bloomfield CT 06002
860-242-0041

Third Thursdays, January – April 2008, 7:00 P.M.

Kathryn Kelly Shaw kicks off our spring season on January 17. She will read her poems and lead us to an open mike celebrating life’s teachers. Ms. Kelly Shaw is a long-time member of the Random Meeting House Poets and popular reader in such venues as Bethel’s Wednesday Poetry Series and the Wood Memorial Library. Her poems have been published in many journals, including The Helix and NCTE. She teaches language arts in the Portland public schools. Kathryn cites many poetry guides in her life, including Geri Radasci, Brendan Galvin, Sue Ellen Thompson, and was immersed in a life of poetry with her partner of 10 years, Hugh Ogden. (We dedicate this evening of poetry to the memory of Professor Hugh Ogden, beloved poet, teacher, mentor, and activist who died tragically in a drowning accident, December 31, 2006.) Open mike theme: “Life Teachers and Spirit Guides.”

On February 21, David Cappella joins us. He has co-authored two books on the teaching of poetry, Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves (Erlbaum Associates, 2000) and A Surge of Language (Heinemann, 2004). His poems have appeared in such journals as The Connecticut Review and Bryant Literary Review. He travels through the country giving workshops to teachers and students. He teaches at Central Connecticut State University. Open mike theme:
“Perspectives on the Real.”

On March 20, Daniel Donaghy, Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University, reads from his new book, Streetfighting (Curbstone Press, 2005). He has published widely, with poems forthcoming in Southern Review and Prairie Schooner. Mr. Donaghy says that the title of his book may be taken two ways, “either as a literal term, as something I did, because I did get into street fights (in the Kensington section of Philadelphia)…and also as a metaphor for trying to find a way out of the city.” Open mike theme: “Contrast/Conflict.”

On April 17, come to an area book launch! Cheryl Della Pelle, a master gardener and visiting poet in Litchfield public schools, will read from her first book of poems, Down to the Waters (Antrim House Books, 2008.) In 1995, she founded Common thread, a poetry performance group which performs several times a year. Her poems have been published in Arkenstone and The Connecticut Review. Open mike theme: “Landscapes of the Heart.”

Open mike for the public follows featured reader at each event. Themes are optional.
Wintonbury Branch Library 1015 Blue Hills Ave. Bloomfield CT 06002 242-0041


NOW IN ITS 2ND SEASON
Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series
at Manchester Community College,
Great Path, Manchester, CT 06040

Presents
on Thursday, January 10
in Fireside Commons, Learning Resource Center, MCC

* Spoken Word Open Mic – beginning at 5:45 p.m.
Open Mic Feature: Steve Starger, freelance writer, jazz pianist, and co-author of Wally’s World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Second-Best Comic Artist

* Music by the GREATER HARTFORD ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: Classical Chamber Music – beginning at 6:45 p.m.

* Featured Poets: A CELEBRATION OF ANTRIM HOUSE, with Theresa C. Vara and Rennie McQuilkin – beginning at 7:45 p.m.

Vara teaches English at University High School in Hartford. Her poetry has been published by New Song Press and anthologized by Houghton Mifflin Company. She is co-founder of The Litchfield Review. Her book of poems through Antrim House is Profligate with Love.

McQuilkin co-founded, and until 2000 directed, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. More recently, he founded Antrim House (http://www.antrimhousebooks.com/), a publisher of New England poets. He is the author of nine collections of poetry and his work has also appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Crazyhorse.

There will be a book signing after the readings.

Free and Open to the Public
Sponsored by the MCC Foundation
Hosted by Stephen Campiglio

For more information and directions, please visit the Mishi-maya-gat web page at:
www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php or call (860) 512-2824.


GUMBOLIVE
has moved from Chicopee to Hartford
This is an open mic with a feature
and real Gumbo!
It is held on the 1st Thursday of the Month
at Vibz Uptown in Hartford, CT
3155 Main Street.
If people want to feature,
call James Lewis at 413-221-4768.

POETRY POTLUCK at The Sanctuary
Do you love poetry?
Would you like to be part of an ongoing poetry
discussion group offering food for the mind and the heart?

If so, come and join us on the first Sunday of the month
from 4.30-6.00 PM
at The Sanctuary in East Haddam, Connecticut,
to discuss poetry and build community.

This is not about sharing our own work but instead offers us a chance to share the work of poets we love, so you don't have to be a poet to be part of this group. Just come and bring your love of poetry and a poem you would like to share.

Hosted by Greg Coleman, Suzy Lamson, Marilyn Nelson, and Edwina Trentham
For more information call 860-319-1134.

DIRECTIONS
Directions to the Sanctuary for Poetry Potluck on Bogel Road – Look for sign: Labyrinth & Yurt (it's a dirt driveway)

FROM MASSACHUSETTS:
Take I-91 South to Rte 9 South. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM HARTFORD:
Take I-84 East towards East Hartford. Take exit 55 onto Route 2 East towards Norwich. Take exit 16 . Go RIGHT onto Route 149. Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Plains Road). Turn LEFT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM NEW HAVEN: Take I-95 North towards New London. Take exit 67; stay to the LEFT at the fork on the ramp. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Middlesex Turnpike). Take Route 9 North towards Middletown. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM NEW LONDON: Take I-95 South towards New Haven. Take Route 9 North towards Middletown. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
Every Wednesday 7:30
at: 102 Greenwood Ave,
Bethel CT

Open mike sign up begins at 7:30. The open mic begins at 8 open for people to read their work 3-5 minutes. The first 8-10 poets will read before the feature who will read for 30 minutes followed by a
Q & A. Open mic will continue till closing time.
WNPS represents a varied community of people with a common interest and appreciation for poetry. The open mic is open to poetry, stories and musician (5 minute time limit).

1/9 Mary Elizabeth Lang - Has numerous publications throughout CT, Fellow for the CT Writing Project and teaches writing at Southern Connecticut State University. Host: Ernie

1/16 Theme- “So What’s New/” - Three featurettes. Host: Louise

1/23 Kim Bridgeford - Connecticut Touring Poet of 2007 and professor of English at Fairfield University.
Host: Robin

2/6 Brian Clements - Professor of English/ Coordinator for MFA residency program at WesConn.
Host: Victoria

2/13 Eros (yikes!) - Better known as Erotic, Exotic, Neurotic night. Save on flowers for Valentines!
Host: Dan

2/20 Suzanne Frischkorn - Latest publication selected by Mary Oliver for Aldrich Poetry Award.
Host: Ernie

2/27 Ralph Nazareth- Stamford Poet, war Activist and Scholar/Professor of English at Nassau Community College. Host: Louise

3/5 Charlie Rossiter - NEA fellowship recipient, three time Pushcart Prize Nominee has appeared on NPR and numerous other Radio Stations for his work. Host: Robin

3/26 Mighty Mike McGee –International spoken word artist, writer, performer and comic. Host: Dan

4/2 Fatih Vicinanza – Founder of WNPS, CT Poet/ teacher/editor will read Mary Oliver. Host: Ernie

WNPS, going on 12 years has been the longest CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING WEEKLY Poetry Open MIC and featured poet reading series in Connecticut! For more details and updates: http://www.wedpoetry.net/ Or http://www.wednesdaypoetry.com/ and http://www.wednesdaypoetry.org/


Spoken Palabra Spoken Word Open Mic
Every Monday evening starting at 8:00pm
Hosted by MIRA & Mind Evolution
at La Paloma Sabanera Coffee House
405 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel 860.548.1670(on the corner of Babcock St & Capitol)
for more information:
http://www.lapalomasabanera.com/Events.html


Windsor Workshop:
A workshop for serious poets interested in critique
at the Windsor Library, Windsor, CT
each second and fourth Monday at 6:30 PM.
For information call Alice Ahrens Williams 860-668-6142
or Janet Henderson 860-688-5770


HARTFORD HAPPENINGS

SOUL SESSIONS at The Art Space Gallery

The creator of the Monday Night Love Jones brings you--
"Soul Sessions" every Monday night at 8:00 PM

Join us for live Jazz Jams & share your Poetry and Song
backed by a live band or just come and chill in the vibe
of Hartford’s Hottest Open Mic Event.
Hosted By Charmagne

$5.00 donation. B.Y.O.B.
For more info, call 860-874-8797
or email mailto:[email protected]

The Art Space Gallery
555 Asylum Street
Downtown Hartford


Freestyle Hip-Hop Open Mic
Tuesdays
in Hartford
Filthy Kleen host Sully’s Hip-Hop Open Mic night
every Tuesday in Hartford
Sully’s Pub
2071 Park St.Hartford, CT
860-231-8881
http://www.sullyspub.com/


Boston Area Poetry Info:

JOHN ANDERSON
Poetribe
Saturday, January 19, 2007
George Comeaux and Linda Thayer
7:45 Open Mic Sign Up
8:00 Open Mic
9:00 Feature Poet
The Community Room
East Bridgewater Public Library
32 Union Street
East Bridgewater, MA
http://www.poetribe.org/

John M. Anderson’s new chapbook, Dictionary Quilt (Pudding House 2007), is about the weird dream landscapes of the American southwest. His work has appeared most recently in Fugue, Rosebud, Poetalk, Aurorean, Argestes, The Carolina Quarterly, The Big Ugly, Barbaric Yawp, South Dakota Review, and Willow Review, among others. His poem "Housing Allowance" was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. Anderson learned to write poetry in the Boulder of the mid-seventies, when Bill Matthews and Ed Dorn were among his teachers. He now teaches creative writing and the Emily Dickinson Seminar (and this semester a class called Keats and Stevens) at Boston College. He divides his time between Boston and Cripple Creek, Colorado, and is at work on a book called "Old Masters, Iraq War Edition."

Hosted by David R. Surette and Victoria Bosch Murray
For info and bookings, contact

Directions to Poetribe
(from the East Bridgewater Public Library website
http://www.sailsinc.org/ebpl/): Take Route 24 to Exit 16A, Route 106 East
towards West Bridgewater. Follow Route 106 for about 4 miles to Route 18.
Take a left onto Route 18 North. At the 6-way intersection in East
Bridgewater center stay straight on Route 18. The red brick library building
is one block north on the left, at the corner of Union Street and Route 18.

CAMBRIDGE READINGS

The Boston Poetry Slam Simone Beaubien,
SlamMaster http://www.slamnews.com/

Central Square’s world-famous Cantab Lounge
presents performances from local and national poets, as well as a
chance to present your own work in the open mic or poetry slam.

January 9, 2008
A favorite dynamic duo returns: individual slam standouts Mike McGee and Robbie Q.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

January 16, 2008
Charlotte slammer and 2007 National Poetry Slam Champion Queen Sheba.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

January 23, 2008
Youth poetry sensation all grown up: 2007 National Poetry Slam Individual Finalist Shannon Leigh.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 and WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
World Qualifiers for the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam!
$5 cover charge for both these incredible shows
All qualified poets are invited to slam to represent the Cantab at the
2008 Individual World Poetry Slam in Columbus, Ohio!

The Boston Poetry Slam
Downstairs at the Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Ave,
Central Square, Cambridge, Mass
(617) 354-2685_
(mailto:) _
www.slamnews.com_ (http://www.slamnews.com/)

Doors for the show open at 7:30. The open mic begins at 8:00, the feature performs at approximately 9:30, and an open poetry slam follows. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.

The Boston Poetry Slam at The Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.

http://www.slamnews.com/ [email protected]




Cambridge Community Television
Tuesdays at 11:00 PM Saturdays at 10:30PM
Catch the latest from the Boston Poetry Slam I
NFO: [email protected]
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the Poetry Session at O’Shea’s
THE CAPE GETS ITS VOICE BACK
Every Third Thursday! The Poetry Session at O’Shea’s
is a free monthly all-ages open mic for poets and lovers
of poetry held in the Back Room at O’Shea’s Olde Inne.
348 Main Street (Route 28) in the village of West Dennis.
Info: call Gregory Hischak at 508-398-5434

LETRA Poetry Nights
in LAWRENCE MASS
Every TUESDAY at
Julio's 99 Club
99 Essex Street Lawrence, MA
Doors open at 7pm open mic starts at 8pm
Admission $3.00
For more information or for directions please call
Michelle Richardson at 978-423-7045

Gypsypashn's Poetry Caravan
at Bestseller's Cafe
24 High Street
Medford, MA. 02155
Third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM.
Free refreshments open mic.
The Poetry Man' hosts
The Main St. Cafe, North Easton MA.
August is Biker Poetry Month,
and celebrated at Besteller's on the 13th.
After this reading there'll be a 2nd annual BBQ at Gypsy's.
Come one come all, come and enjoy a night of poetic delight
in a cozy bookshop setting!

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
Every Sunday 21+ $5 at door
1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
617-547-0759 Website - http://poetryjam.com/
Blog - http://poetryjam.com/blog/poetryjam.html

Providence Poets

GOT POETRY LIVE
Every Tuesday starting at 7:30 PM
@ Reflections Cafe
8 Governor St, corner of Wickenden St
Providence, RI 02903-4429
(401) 273-7278

http://www.gotpoetry.com/ContactUs.html


BRATTLEBORO VERMONT POETRY SERIES

The reading series in downtown Brattleboro is on the first Saturday of every month.
Hooker-Duhnam Theater
139 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT
7:00 PM

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