POETRYNEWS**** To plod off Poetry News in your email make out to lori@thepoetrynews.comor balk it old-fashioned online at http://www.poetrynewscalendar.com/Here is your Poetry News concerning the week of July 6, 2009. Spoken powwow events are as lush and colorful as Summer flowers in the Pioneer Valley and beyond. Scroll all the method down concerning more soundness in CT, Boston, NH and VT. THIS WEEK balk old-fashioned: Collected Poets, Shelburne Falls, Thu. July 2Friday unanswered trounce reading, interest, 9pm, Luna Pizza, Northampton. transcendently July 2: Dara Weir, Lesle Lewis, Elizabeth HugheyOpen Mic at Evolution Cafe, featuring Kevin Devaney, Thu.
July 3Thu July 9 – Bart’s Bards in Greenfield, MA features Maria Williams-RussellThu July 9 – Florence Poets Society Meeting, Lilly Library 7pmThu July 9 – Touchstone Poetry Festival, Litchfield, CT (see CT Poetry below)Spoken Word in Westfield:Open mic on the GreenTuesday, July 14, 6:00pm (under the tent)Spoken Word and Music welcomeThere resolve be an unanswered mic on the GreenJuly 14, 21, 28Wednesdaysat Teapot Gallery22 Elm Street (route 10/202)in Westfield, MA Hosted times gone by Eli Baenziger and Maurice Soulfighter TaylorThere resolve be music at 6, then unanswered mic UPSTAIRS at 7. All are acceptable. Sessions resolve embody continuously concerning rejuvenated essay as good-naturedly as concerning feedback on existing pieces. Open mic (only) every Wednesday Cimmerian dark Call 562-6966 (Teapot) or 348-7218 (Eli B.) Chicopee/Holyoke/Springfield Area Poetry Central Library Poetry Writing WorkshopsSaturday mornings, 9:30 – 11:30 June 27, July 18, August 8, August 22 Once again, the Central Library resolve be hosting Saturday morning soundness essay workshops, which resolve be facilitated times gone by Marнa Luisa Arroyo. If you prerequisite feedback, put forth on 10 copies of your in harmony. Both newcomers and regulars ages 12+ are acceptable to be with any or all dates. Pre-registration is not life-and-death, but discrimination impediment enrol to association Anna Brandenburg concerning more dirt at (413) 263-6828 x426 or writing@springfieldlibrary.org.
Please keep an eye on this seat concerning upcoming dates. A clan of Springfield’s North End literary at Colby (B.A.), Tufts (M.A.) and Harvard (A.B.D.), Marнa Luisa Arroyo won a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council donate in soundness and predominantly domicile in the Spanish-language split of the Library’s 2006 Poetry Contest. In to boot to being an award-winning elegist, Arroyo is an educator, out-of-the-way precursor, and currently, a GED academician at a townsperson non-profit paragon.
The Bilingual Review/Press (AZ) published her predominantly full-length capacity of poems, Gathering Words/Recogiendo Palabras, final summer (2008). Her poems have in the offing been published in tons journals including PALABRA: A Magazine concerning Chicano and Latino Literary Art transcendently, CALYX transcendently, and The Women’s Times transcendently. These workshops are supported times gone by the Write On, Springfield! donate from the Springfield Cultural Council, a townsperson ambiance supported times gone by the Massachusetts Cultural Council Starving concerning Art Presentsopen mic Tuesdays@ Blue Fusion Bar and Grille487 St. James AveSpringfield, MAdoors unanswered at 6pm concerning group hour.
This effect is freeFor more info call http://www.brendaschild.com/ SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY POETRYThere are calm a counsel weeks to submit your foe concerning the Library’s Write On, Springfield! tome design. Showtime is 7-9pmAll poets, musicians, singers, and visual artists are acceptable. http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/writeon.htmllMark your annals concerning Poetry in the Park! The Open Mic series moves outdoors concerning the summer, and resolve also be active to Wednesday evenings at 5:30. July 15 Special guests- 30 poems in 30 days participants!+ August 19. Word in the Valley and Beyond Food concerning Thought Books AnnouncesA staged reading ofPermission Perform: An Articulation of Your M/otherSaturday July 11, 2009 8PMFood For Thought Books106 N Pleasant St.
Any questions, amuse association Anna Brandenburg at 263-6828 x426or times gone by e-mail at abrandenburg@springfieldlibrary.org transcendently. Amherst MATickets $10-30 sliding scaleTickets Available at Food concerning Thought Books(barter options to shackles concerning eats or flowers!)Flute and Poetry, Eddie Bartok-Barrata After a five-month vacation innermost reaches from our townsperson soundness & flute events, Eddie ‘Bird Man’ Bartуk-Baratta is coming arrangement mistaken old-fashioned with tons rejuvenated poems and original flute compositions. transcendently We fancy you can be with us concerning this upcoming soundness & flute festivities on Saturday, July 11, 8:00 p.m., at the Friends’ Meetinghouse in downtown Northampton. transcendently Eddie’s original poems and undisciplined, jazz-inspired, speaking, self-taught flute resolve send you accessible inspired to transmogrification your corner of the Terra, your apartment, or your core. Come old-fashioned and assent to this deep, dazzling, and insightful flute entertainer and reciting elegist as he explores questions to who owns the core and how each of us belongs to the alliance. Friends’ Meetinghouse43 Center Street, NorthamptonSaturday, July 11, 8:00 p.m.
To obtain handmade tickets in abet, 5 dollars a in harmony,call Sarah & Eddie at 413.584.8187or email saraheplum@gmail.com. Doug Anderson at Broadside BooksWednesday, July 15, 2009 7:00 p.m. Tickets resolve also be to shackles at the door. Broadside BookshopDoug Anderson Reads from His New MemoirDoug Anderson is shreds known as a dazzling elegist, as evidenced times gone by his two collections, The Moon Reflected Fire and Blues concerning Unemployed Secret Police. Now he offers us Keep Your Head Down, a reportage of coming of continuously in the sixties, serving in Vietnam as a tussle medical corpsman, and living owing to the deprecating and group aftermath of the encounter.
SLAM CIRCUSA Cimmerian dark of denounce soundness (competitive poetry) featuring the Worcester National Slam Team who resolve be competing in August at the National Poetry Slam competitions in West Palm Beach, FL. Tautly written and courageously candid, this is chestnut of the most engrossing first-person narratives of the final different years. After the interest, audience members resolve have in the offing a search for to joust with their own poems concerning prizes and dithyrambic beauty.
Come uncultured to guard your predicament to denounce! This is a fundraiser to send the cooperate to Nationals. Tickets to shackles at http://www.pioneeerarts.org/ or phone 413.527.3700. Friday, July 17, 8pm at P.A.C.E. New Open MicOpen trounce!Hosted times gone by Maurice Soulfighter TaylorFriday nights at 9pmLuna Pizza88 Pleasant St. Northampton, MAGreen Street Cafe Poetry Series Thursdays, 8pmGreen Street CafeNorthampton, MASummer Poetry Open MicForbes LibraryWednesdays July 1st and August 5th7:00 PMCelebrate with summer soundness!Refreshments resolve be served.
Sign up to interpret from 6:30-7:00 p.m. Everyone acceptable. First-come, first-served. 5-10minutesdepending on the slew of participants.
Poetry reading times gone by William Jay Smith, latest elegist laureate of the U.S. Location: Community RoomForbes Library20 West StreetNorthampton, MA 01060Bryant DaySaturday, July 18 12 PM- 4:30PMBryant Homestead,207 Bryant Road,CummingtonA festivities of soundness and articulation at this National Historic Landmark. Music times gone by Rhubarb Pie. Architecture of the Homestead talk times gone by Bonnie Parsons. Trustees of Reservations members free; non-members $5/ per auto. Also featuring a Terra plod, tours, and accessible made ice cream.
Call 413-532-1631 x13 on weekdays or 413-634-2244 on weekends concerning dirt. Valley Writers School:Now Accepting Applications concerning Summer SessionThe Valley Writers School offers (variously) fiction, non-fiction,and soundness workshops concerning writers seeking to procreate rejuvenated space for,refine works-in-progress, interpret and converse about enormous belles-lettres,and be with a encouraging essay community. Session begins the week of July 6 and runs concerning six weeks. This summer we resolve look at two workshops: chestnut in soundness andone in non-fiction/memoir. Workshops are in the evening and held at the Writers’ Mill in Florence. Tuition is $180.
Please association us at valleywritersschool@gmail.comor at 413-636-5088 if you have in the offing any questions or if you’d like to put forth to privilege consumption. Workshop resolve be moment, in jest, eye-opening, and encouraging. Open Words Writing WorkshopsLet your words old-fashioned to present! Explore fiction, soundness, reportage,and more in a encouraging, inspiring alliance. Wednesday nights, 5/27 owing to 7/15. Sliding climb.
Easthampton. http://www.openwordswriting.blogspot.com/413-695-8251,openwordswriting@me.com. Writing GroupWednesdays at 2pm,Windhorse Associates,211 North St, Noho. Lots of soundness, lots of humor.
Chaya Grossberg and David Stark. FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY transcendently. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SILKWORM 4 WE NEED YOUR FINE POETRY SUPPORTED BY A NORTHAMPTON ARTS COUNCIL GRANT and the FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY DEADLINE: 8/15/09 EMAIL: fpoets@localnet.com (NO ATTACHMENTS ACCEPTED) Website: http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/ NO ATTACHMENTS ACCEPTED) Mail to: Florence Poets Society P.O. Poetry conferring and powwow begins at 7PMWRITING GROUPRich Puchalsky and friends gather every 3rd Thursdayat Lilly Library community Roomat 6:30 PM. Box 60355 Florence, MA 01062-0355Next business/sharing junction Thursday July 9, 6:30pmALL POETS OF ALL TYPES AND AGES are acceptable, put forth on chestnut of your original works to percentage,(12 to 15 copies will=2 0usually be passably concerning all to share) The junction is held at Lilly Library community chamber and begins at 6:30 PM. See Rich concerning details, this alliance is currently unanswered to be with. LASTLY PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING AS A MEMBEROF FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY.
Your membership supports our Fall feast,SILKWORM our annual make, (these predominantly two items also are supported in partby the Northampton Arts Council via a grant)our website http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/,, our po upon, the annual argue,the JAN SLAM, our begin guile gallery reading. THE FEE IS $15.00 FOR THE YEARFROM SEPTEMBER TO AUGUST. and our summer readingat William Cullen Bryant homestead. For more dirt:Email us at FPOETS@localnet.com or balk old-fashioned our webpage at http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/Florence Poets Society Readings: Listen to Twilite’s Poetry Pub nowadays Weekly!Enjoy the Pub with Carl and Tom every Wednesday from 9-10 amon Valley Free Radio, WXOJ 103.3 fm, Northampton and nowwith improved streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ transcendently!!!Poetry to the people!WXOJ-FM LP 103.3 and streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/. We currently have in the offing different openingsfor rejuvenated members.
Bringing to you a contrast of entrancing soundness and music!—————————–All events are impediment enrol and unanswered to the supporters except as notedFor more dirt, Call Tom at (413) 584-5914or email at: tommytwilite@gmail.comor: FPOETS@localnet.com or call:http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/or call: http://www.tommytwilite.com/Poetry Nights in Northampton: Writer’s Group at Packard’s in Northampton:Northampton Writer’s Group is an unfolding writer’s groupfor any big-hearted of written powwow. For dirt amuse association Lori lori@thepoetrynews.comIt meets in the library chamber at Packard’s restaurant/bar at14 Masonic St. in Northampton. The next dates – Sunday July 19, 6:00pmPOETRY A LA CARTEon WMUA-Amherst 91.1 FM5pm to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays this Summer, streamed palpable at http://www.wmua.org/. Participants put forth on copies of their space for to interpret and havecritiqued in a encouraging, handleable, calculated with ambiance. The program, hosted times gone by Daisy Mathias,includes reading aloud from pastand cover poets, and occasionallyfeatures palpable puzzle continuously andpoetry-reading with a townsperson elegist.
Greenfield/Shelburne Falls and North Greenfield Spoken WordAlways the third Tuesday of the monthJuly 219 Mill StGreenfield, MADoors unanswered at 7:00Open Mic starts at 7:30Open Mic resolve be 10 – five-minute slotsDonation – Sliding Scale $1 – $5 Feature Readers Linda Bratcher & Bill BrewerBook signing and selling of townsperson writers works resolve be availableCome up to readBring your chapbooks to sellWe resolve have in the offing tables at no costHope to lead you there! transcendently abasing DirectionsIf you despatch up 91Come into the center of GreenfieldAt the lights of Federal and MainWhere the Common isYou blast off a rightDown the hillToyota resolve be on you leftYou enrol underwater the railroad bridgeCome to a lightTake a RTand you are thereThat is Mill St9 is on the cornerYou can in department store in the Art Space next dooror on the streetORIf you are coming up 5 & 10 into GreenfieldWhen you despatch to the lightsWhere you can either enrol leftOr Right underwater the Railroad bridgeYou prerequisite to enrol leftThat is Mill St9 is the predominantly construction transcendently abasing transcendently ARMS LIBRARY READINGThird Friday Prose and Poetry Readings. at The Arms Library,Corner of Main and Bridge Streets,Shelburne Falls, Mass. 7 p.m.
413-625-0306. Held in the upstairs Reading Room, readers should progress acouple of minutes uncultured to augury up concerning a reading sulcus, and thenhave five minutes to percentage their space for. All SMALL CAPS READINGat the Deja Brew Pub57 Lockes Village Road,Wendell, MA. The construction is attainable times gone by entering at cut leveland enchanting the elevator upstairs. The final Monday of Every MonthOpen Mic Sign Up 7-7:15Open Mic Readings 7:15-8:00$1-$5 sliding climb admissionThis program is supported, in interest, times gone by the Wendell Cultural Council, a townsperson ambiance, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, astate ambiance, and the National Endowment concerning the Arts. $1 – $5Sliding climb admissionFor directions and additional dirt lead our websitehttp://allsmallcaps.blogspot.com/allsmallcaps@gmail.comWe fancy to lead you there. Thanks Dialect right much.
Come interpret, do as chestnut is told, assemblage away eats, inundate one’s sorrows beer, and exaltation this wonderful reading series that wouldn’t be opportune without your continued strut. Jess, Paul, Charles, StephenDeja Brew Pub & Cafe57 Lockes Village Rd. Wendell MA(978) 544-2739 __________Bart’s BardsSecond Thursdays Open Microphone concerning Writers Next month, July 9,Greenfield’s own Maria Williams-Russell resolve be our featured reader. Her passion and forgiveness is glaring to all who conscious her space for. Maria has shared some of her writings at unanswered microphone.
July 9 should be a banderole Cimmerian dark at Bart’s. Maria Williams-Russell is a paragrapher who on thinks of herself as a irreclaimable bird whose feathers don’t agree the feathers of the other birds where she has landed. Her soundness seems to offend, in a variety of ways, in all directions from this fancy of displacement, of where and what is accessible. Adopted times gone by a Lithuanian derivation and a Mayflower heir initiator, she is not honestly effective what it means when people puzzle after her concerning directions in Spanish or be awed at her olive incrustation. Maria received her MFA in soundness from Goddard College and her poems have in the offing been published in The Bellevue Literary Review, Chronogram, Sous Rature and other humble journals. Her ditty The Woven River resolve be stenciled on the milieu of the rejuvenated River Culture Art Pathway in Turners Falls, MA in the summer of 2009.
Please be with us. She writes from her accessible in Greenfield, MA. Bart’s Cafй of Greenfield286 Main St. Greenfield, MA7:00-9:00 P.M. Wheelchair attainable.
(Sign up to Read at 6:45)(Open Microphone Readings of 5 Minutes or Less)For More Information, Please Contact:Larry Fader (413) 475-3321Free to All_______ Collected Poets Series July 2, Features Dara Wier, Lesle Lewis, and Elizabeth HugheyMocha Maya’s Coffee House,47 Bridge Street,Shelburne Falls, MA 01370,413-625-6292. Free. See www.collectedpoets.com or www.mochamayas.com concerning more dirt. 8 Patrick Donnelly, Jeffrey Levine, Art Opening times gone by Liz deNiordFeb. 2009 SeriesJan. 5 Mary Clare Powell and Diane LockwardMar.
5 Nikki Finney, Tara Betts and poets from The Holyoke Care Center concerning Teen MothersMar.29 Martha Collins and Lynne ThompsonApril 2 Anne Marie Macari and Carey SalernoMay 7 Genie Zeiger, Dorianne Laux, and Kerry O’KeefeMay 24 Maxine Kumin and Sydney LeaJune 4 Two Massachusetts Poet Laureates: Gertrude Halstead of Worcester and Leslйa Newman of NorthamptonJuly 2 Dara Wier, Lesle Lewis, and Elizabeth Hughey— no CPS concerning August and Sept.—Oct. 5 April Ossman, Peter Waldor, and Pamela StewartDec. 1 Annie Finch and Lisa OlsteinNov.
3 Mary Koncel and Kate GreenstreetThe Collected Poets Series highlights the space for of established and emerging poets. Each effect showcases the memorable townsperson poets of Western Massachusetts and the finest regional, federal, and pandemic inclination. See http://www.collectedpoets.com/ concerning more info to upcoming events. The series is most often held every predominantly Thursday of the month. _____________Writing Groupsfor dawning and well-educated writersCome make out in an encouraging encouraging ambiance, affair thedeepening and make it of your own essay, and aid to the deepeningand make it of others’ essay.
No affair necessary–only thewillingness to put forth indite to files. Wefollow the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method,http://www.amherstwriters.com/. Groups gather weekly in Greenfield, are unfolding, and unanswered to all genres. $125 per 5-week seating,6 – 8 people per alliance.
To be with or concerning more infocall or email Ann McNelly: 413 772 2375, amcnelly@rcn.com________________ News from Mo and Ginger Cat PressThe snare milieu can be accessed with this reprimand:http://www.thebooksmyth.com/Maureen equinoxmagazine@aol.comWeb milieu: http://www.thebooksmyth.com/ timidity guidelines nowadays availableThe Equinox is to shackles at http://www.thebooksmyth..com/Word in the Berkshires Power of Words, Open MicWill be enchanting a hiatus concerning the summer and resolve carry on in September. This is an unanswered moment to percentage soundness,readings, music and other oral powwow. Hosted times gone by Garfield Reed. Free and unanswered to the publicBerkshire South Regional Community CenterCrissey Rd. Great Barrington, MAEvery third Tuesday of the month. In Words, Out Words in HousatonicIn Housatonic, MA there is an unanswered mic concerning poets and performersof all styles and ages.
Please phone Garfield at 528 4127 concerning more dirt. 1st Tuesday of each month atthe Deb Koffman Gallery137 Front Street,Housatonic, MA 01236. In Words, Out Words.is hosted times gone by John Meeks and there is usuallya $7 suggested contribution concerning zealousness and tenseness.
The augury up technically is at 6:30 nonetheless the method it works is alottery modus operandi. There are snacks there provided times gone by whoever wants to put forth on them. If you enrol to balk it old-fashioned some continuously ago, then you can putyour panache on the association email index. The following month youget an email reminding you of the upcoming effect. If you’ve performed there former the continuously when thenyou are put forth into the tombola modus operandi and randomly names are selected. If it’s your predominantly continuously performing at In Words, Out Words,you are guaranteed a predicament on the roster as prerequisite as you replyto the refresher email.
Sometimes there are calm slots unanswered at the door. The unanswered mic begins at 7 and the featured trouper goes onfor to 20 minutes. Zeitgeist Gallery PittsfieldMonday Poetry Nights6 to10pm648 North Street in Pittsfieldcall Alan Nidle, the Director at (857) 991-8448 concerning detailLee Writers Group(every 2nd Tuesday of the month)at the Lee Library Conference Room.
It most often lasts until between 9 and 9:30. Develop and hone essay skills owing to constructively critiquingothers as good-naturedly as receiving good hints and suggestions. This forum resolve proletariat a contrast of impolite stories, dithyrambic compilations,insightful and original essays, and other varieties of essay similarlytangible in gauge.
The alliance resolve gather every secondly Tuesday sharing original worksvia reciting and disposition and should be of a mind to acceptconstructive feedback and be fitted to, in benefit, break the news about known suchfeedback in a acceptable and calculated politeness. The profit of this alliance is to manifest characterand annalist owing to unshakeable directive fervor with written andspoken words. Contact Leewritersgroup@gmail.comor phone 413 243-8116 concerning upward of dirt. Word in Ware/PalmerCarpe Stylum! (Latin concerning Seize the indite!)meets every Wednesday 6-8pm, most often at the Ware Librarybut some meetings are held absent. All are acceptable. This alliance includes poets, impolite history writers and novelists. Call LuWanda Cheney (413) 277-9676 concerning a plan.
Word in Worcester: ___The Little a Poetry Series at the Q Cafe, 362 Chandler St in Worcester, MA. Worcester StorytellersWorcester Storytellers meets on the secondly Friday of each month at the Village Arts Gallery(1 Ekman Street, Worcester). We look at the reading every Monday Cimmerian dark, the sign-up index forthe unanswered mic goes up at 7:00pm and we gad about get started curtly thereafter.
The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. There resolve be an unanswered mic followed times gone by a interest. They puzzle after you throw out some rolling in it into the basket to strut the artists who interest.
Worcester Storytellers not at all charges a cloak. For more info amuse association dave.@aol.com. The d’Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Readingtakes domicile at Assumption College (500 Salisbury Street, Worcester) in the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library on the third Friday of each month during the scholastic year.
The reading starts at 7:00 p.m. The looks is an unanswered mic concerning the predominantly half-hour or so, a impolite vacation innermost reaches with refreshments and then 2 featured poets.. and typically runs concerning 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Readings look at everywhere the mould year. The reading gathers starting at 8:00 p.m. New Name – Same Great PoetryThe After Nine Poetry Series – Every Thursday NightThe The After Nine Poetry Series, latest The Spot,is a weekly soundness reading in the Ship Room at the Hotel Vernon(1 Kelly Square, Worcester). but morally things don’t most often gad about get started until 9ish.
They avoid b refuse an unanswered mic followed times gone by a interest. Speakout! Youth Slam Saturday NightThe Speakout! Youth Poetry Slam returns from the winter hiatus and is arrangement mistaken to junction every Saturday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 21+ and decent id is required.
The looks is an unanswered mic, young people denounce (ages 13-19 welcome) and a interest. This week their interest resolve be 2008 Worcester Slam cooperate associate Trevor Byrne-Smith. Join them in The Bisto in Higgins Student Center (950 Main Street, Worcester).
Come percentage a ditty at the unanswered mic or despatch to lead slammers. Poets AsylumSundays:July 5This week the Poets’ Asylum resolve proletariat the predominantly of two unanswered qualifying denounce to clench who resolve fight it old-fashioned to be the 2009 Worcester agent to the Individual World Poetry Championship. transcendently This resolve be a two in the main denounce with 3 in fashion continuously limits. transcendently The tip finishers tonight moves on to the iWPS Finals on August 30th. transcendently The ordinary rules put forth to privilege consumption.
July 12This week members of the 2009 Worcester Youth Slam Team resolve be our features. Help us send the Youth Slammers on their method as they make provisions for concerning their sprawl to the Brave New Voices effect in Chicago, IL. Poetry denounce is the competitive guile of deportment soundness. Jeff Seigrist, Kate Richardson, Elyse Bianchet, Carolyn Mshooshian and Eddy Habib are expected to discharge. It puts a dual paralipsis on essay and deportment, encouraging poets to focal plan on what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. Slam soundness can be active, freaky and pitiless moment, on all in the unaltered ditty.
Come on down to Jumpin’ Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). If that sounds like a acceptable continuously then be with us concerning some enormous words. The reading starts at 6:00 p.m.
No cover; amuse throw out some rolling in it in the scuttle to strut the interest. The reading is being held at Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner (148 Grove Street, Worcester) and is hosted times gone by Rushelle Frazier. The Dirty GerundThere’s a rejuvenated soundness reading in community! The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show resolve be held every Monday Cimmerian dark starting at 8:30 p.m.
There resolve be an unanswered mic every week with a hang old-fashioned of soundness s lams and featured poets. No cover; donations accepted. atthe Java Hut (1073A Main Street, Worcester).
21+Please be with us at our rejuvenated accessible,Shakti Women’s Writing PactThe Shakti Women’s Writing Pact meetsevery Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. Shakti was created with the intent of enhancing women’ssense of affinity within the soundness community owing to thean unmoderated essay enrol in the main. For more dirt amuse association Sou MacMillan attwobunny@earthlink.net. Infante hosts The Eclectic Word, anInternet announce present that resolve delve into literature’s edge with poets,satirists, surrogate journalists and scheduled (gasp!) bloggers.
THE ECLECTIC WORD, Radio ShowPoet and hack Victor D. We’ll bestepping mistaken the beaten procedure of belles-lettres, enchanting a about look at the individual,the far-out and the cutting-edge. Should be in jest. EST the predominantly and third Friday of every month,as interest of The World Wide Word Radio Network. The present resolve look at at 7 p.m. You can do as chestnut is told to theshows palpable, or you can download it later concerning your listening convenience.
So fork old-fashioned it a do as chestnut is told! It’s ordinary to be a bedlam!CT POETRY ——————————————————-Visit the CT Poet Online annals,updated weekly: http://www.poetz.com/connecticut TOUCHSTONE POETRY FESTIVALThursday, July 9 20096:15pmThe Eighth Annual Touchstone Poetry Festival resolve be held at Touchstone, a residential treatment center concerning female young people offenders and DCF committed girls. Come and be with us as we exaltation our shared travels in soundness. Twenty dazzling women poets, including Elizabeth Thomas, Faith Vicinanza, Lisa Starr, Marianela Medrano-Marra, Sally Van Doren, Eileen Albrizzio, and The Afrikana Madonna resolve be with the Touchstone girls reading in partnership at the mike. Touchstone11 Country PlaceLitchfield, CTWintonbury Poetry Series & Open MikeThird Thursdays 7:00 PMAn unanswered mike follows the featured guests each evening. Themes are non-compulsory. First Tuesday in JulyCharlie BondhusJuly 7th at 7:00pmFeaturing Charlie BondhusOn the predominantly Tuesday of every month, Broad Street Books hosts a featured elegist followed times gone by an unanswered mic. Wintonbury Branch Library1015 Blue Hills AvenueBloomfield, CT 06002860-243-8855 Sunken Garden Poetry and Music FestivalHillstead Museum, Farmington, CTGo tohttp://www.hillstead.org/activities/poetry_performseries.html#threefor the weekly plan and details.
All are acceptable to despatch and interpret, present, discharge their space for!Charlie Bondhus won his predominantly pickings concerning soundness in the eighth evaluate, after which he upchuck up four years essay nihilistic immoderate mould verse in the panache of Baudelaire. Since then, he has earned his MFA in adept essay from Goddard College and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. In to boot to soundness, he writes and publishes fiction and literary disparagement. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches essay and belles-lettres. His full-length soundness tome How the Boy Might See It, which was a finalist concerning the 2007 Blue Light Press First Book Award, resolve be old-fashioned in 2010, along with his novella Monsters and Victims. Charlie currently resides in Chicopee, Massachusetts, with his longtime accessory, their two cats, and a Dialect right energetic Madagascar Day Gecko. This is not to sharing our own space for but as a substitute for offers us a search for to percentage the space for of poets we endearing, so you don’t have in the offing to be a elegist to be interest of this alliance.
Come be with us on July 7th at 7:00 pm when wel be featuring Charlie Bondhus transcendently!Broad Street Books45 Broad Street Middletown, CT 06457For more info: Brian Mitchard (860)685-7323POETRY POTLUCKatThe SanctuaryDo you endearing soundness?Would you like to be interest of an unfolding soundness powwow alliance gift eats concerning the incrustation alive and the core?If so, despatch and be with us on the this predominantly Sunday of June (June 7th) from 4.30-6.00 PM at at the Yurt in The Sanctuary in East Haddam, Connecticut, to converse about soundness and Don Juan community. Just despatch and put forth on your endearing of soundness and a ditty you would like to percentage. Hosted times gone by Greg Coleman, Suzy Lamson, and Edwina TrenthamFor more dirt phone 860-319-1134.
Take lam on old-fashioned of 55 onto Route 2 East on the method Norwich. Directions to the Sanctuary concerning Poetry Potluckon Bogel Road – Look concerning augury: Labyrinth & Yurt(it’s a dirt driveway)FROM HARTFORD: Take I-84 East on the method East Hartford. Take lam on old-fashioned of 16. Go RIGHT onto Route 149.
Turn LEFT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Plains Road). Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road. Phone slew: 860-319-1134FROM NEW HAVEN: Take I-95 North on the method New London.
Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Middlesex Turnpike). Take lam on old-fashioned of 67; delay to the LEFT at the fork on the dip. Take Route 9 North on the method Middletown. Take lam on old-fashioned of 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street).
Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Phone slew: 860-319-1134FROM NEW LONDON: Take I-95 South on the method New Haven. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road. Take Route 9 North on the method Middletown. Take lam on old-fashioned of 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road).
Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Phone slew: 860-319-1134FROM MIDDLETOWN AND POINTS WEST:Take I-84 East to lam on old-fashioned of 27 onto Rte 691.
Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road. Stay on 691 when it becomes Rte 66 East headed toward Meriden. Go all the method owing to Meriden and Middletown onto Rte 9 South. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road).
Take lam on old-fashioned of 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Phone slew: 860-319-1134Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music SeriesReturning concerning its 4th Season in September 2009at Manchester Community CollegeGreat Path Academy, Community CommonsManchester, CT 06040Live music at 7 p.m. /Spoken powwow at 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY SERIESEvery Wednesday 7:30at: 102 Greenwood Ave,Bethel CTOpen mike augury up begins at 7:30. Sponsored times gone by MCC Foundation / Hosted times gone by Stephen CampiglioNEW SCHEDULE: 2nd Thursday during the mould year(September owing to May, except December)NEW LOCATION: Community Commons, Great Path Academy, MCC(Access from Parking Lot B)Free and Open to the PublicFor more dirt on the 2009-10 plan,please call the Mishi-maya-gat snare page-boy at:www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php or phone (860) 512-2824.
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