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Here is your Poetry News for the week of November 2, 2009.
Spoken word events are so prolific in the Pioneer Valley and beyond,

all you need to do is flip over one of the turning leaves and you'll find a poem.

THIS WEEK check out (scroll down for details):
Tue. Nov. 3 - Dickman Brothers at Smith College Poetry Series 7:30pm
Thu. Nov. 5 - Lori Desrosiers & Ellen LaFleche at Green St. Cafe 7pm
Thu. Nov. 5 - Collected Poets Series, Mocha Maya's, Shelburne Falls presents
April Ossman, Peter Waldor, and Pamela Stewart 7:30pm

For more poetry in CT and Boston area scroll down

November 30/30 Challenge

30 Poems in 30 Days: The Challenge is On!

Northampton poet laureate Lesléa Newman is issuing a challenge to the poets of the Pioneer Valley: write 30 poems in 30 days to raise money for literacy.

Newman got the idea from National Novel Writing month. “Fiction writers write a novel during November,” she explained. “So why not have poets do something similar and raise money for a worthy cause at the same time?”

Poets will download from the Northampton Arts Council (http://www.northamptonartscouncil.org) website pledge sheets and sign up sponsors who donate a dollar amount per poem. “A dollar a poem, a nickel a poem, any amount will be appreciated,” Newman said. Poets will also get a prompt sheet containing 100 poetry ideas to inspire them, such as “Write a love poem to an inanimate object” and “Write a poem that will change the world.”

Poets will write their first poem on November 1st and write a poem every day through November 30th. On Wednesday, December 2nd there will be a public reading and celebration at Forbes Library and all poets who participated in the project are invited to come read a poem that came out of the project.

“It’s a lot of fun,” says Newman, who has written 30 poems in 30 days before. “Remember, they don’t have to be great poems. They just have to be poems. But you may very well surprise yourself.” Newman plans to participate in the project herself, and is actively looking for sponsors.

Money raised from the 30 Poems in 30 Days project will be donated to the Center for New Americans (CNA), a non-profit community-based education and resource center for immigrants, refugees, and other limited English speakers in the Pioneer Valley. The organization offers free English classes, free literacy classes, free child care for students, family literacy, and many other services. Newman’s goal is to raise $3,000 for CNA’s Family Literacy Project. “Thirty poets who each find 3 sponsors to pledge a dollar a poem will almost do the trick,” she said. Newman fully expects to meet and exceed her goal. “There are a lot of poets in the Pioneer Valley,” she said. “And a lot of people committed to raising money for literacy.”

Anyone can participate in the project, regardless of writing experience. To receive a pledge sheet, or to find out how to sponsor the poet laureate, click here.

(Visit http://www.northamptonartscouncil.org to download pledge sheets and for more information.)

To find out more about the Center for New Americans, visit www.cnam.org.

Holyoke/Springfield Area Poetry

Starving for Art Presents
open mic Tuesdays
@ Blue Fusion Bar and Grille
487 St. James Ave
Springfield, MA
doors open at 6pm for social hour.
Showtime is 7-9pm
All poets, musicians, singers, and visual artists are welcome.
This event is free
For more info visit http://www.brendaschild.com/

Anthology on Bullies and Bullying

Call for submissions!
Go to: http://www.teatrovida.com/calling-all-writers.html

Journey on the Page

Proprioceptive Writing® with Tzivia Gover

2nd Tuesday of the Month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Nov. 10, Dec. 8, Jan. 12, Feb. 9

$65 for 4 Sessions

Holyoke Location (Highlands neighborhood)

To pre-register: tzivia@tziviagover.com or 413.532.8354

Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows you to know

yourself more fully by exploring on paper the territory of your mind, memory and

emotions. This writing practice will help you synthesize emotion and imagination,

generating authentic insight and joy.

Proprioceptive Writing® is a regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment.

This unique method frees the writer within and helps to:

• Focus awareness and build self-trust
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Awaken the senses and emotions
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process

Tzivia Gover is an author, educator and certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.

Visit www.tziviagover.com or email tzivia@tziviagover.com

Word in the Valley and Beyond

Green St. Poetry Series

Green Street Café
Northampton, Massachusetts

The Green St. Poetry Series showcases the voices of emerging and noted poets from the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and beyond.

Future features at Green Street Cafe:

October 29th — Karen Johnston & Oonagh Doherty
November 5th — Lori Desrosiers & Ellen LaFleche
November 12th — Marie Gauthier & Kim Rogers

If you are a poet and would like to read at Green Street, please contact
Maria Williams-Russell at mariawilliams@gmail.com.

Smith College presents
Matthew and Michael Dickman
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:30 pm
Stoddard Hall
Smith College
Northampton, MA

This Fall, Try a Mini Workshop

Let your words out to play at Open Words

Get inspired, be encouraged, do a lot of writing
in a group of supportive, fun, dedicated writers

Special four-week fall session
November 11 & 18, December 2 & 9
Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Easthampton

$100 before November 4

$120 after November 4

For more information: 413-695-8251
www.openwordswriting.blogspot.com

SUSAN HOWARD CASE MEMORIAL POETRY CORNER

AT THE FORBES LIBRARY

Forbes Library has created a new collection of

the works of local poets named the Susan Howard Case

Poetry Corner. This collection has been named in

memory of a local poet who contributed to the library's rich
poetry community through her volunteer service.

The non-circulating collection consists of poetry books

and chapbooks by Pioneer Valley poets, and locally

published literary journals. "The idea for this collection

developed in response to the abundance of many gifted poets
in our area," said D.M. Gordon, Forbes Library Writer-in-Residence

who created the idea for this new collection.

The collection will be housed in the Arts & Music magazine lounge on the
library's second floor. The items in the collection are to be read in
the library and comfortable seating is available nearby. The library
hopes to grow the collection through donations. Anyone interested in
donating to the collection should contact Lisa Downing, Assistant
Director, at 413-587-1017 or ldowning@forbeslibrary.org.

Anthology of Poems about Northampton

Call for Submissions!
Go to: http://www.nohoanthology.blogspot.com

FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY .

Next business/sharing meeting Thursday November 12, 6:30pm
ALL POETS OF ALL TYPES AND AGES are welcome, bring one of your original works to share,
(12 to 15 copies will=2 0usually be enough for all to share) The meeting is held at Lilly Library community room and begins at 6:30 PM. Poetry presentation and discussion begins at 7PM

WRITING GROUP
Rich Puchalsky and friends meet every 3rd Thursday
at Lilly Library community Room
at 6:30 PM.
See Rich for details, this group is currently open to join.

LASTLY PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING AS A MEMBER
OF FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY. THE FEE IS $15.00 FOR THE YEAR
FROM SEPTEMBER TO AUGUST. Your membership supports our Fall festival,
SILKWORM our annual journal, (these first two items also are supported in part
by the Northampton Arts Council via a grant)
our website http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/,, our po box, the annual contest,
the JAN SLAM, our spring art gallery reading. and our summer reading
at William Cullen Bryant homestead.

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

Florence Poets Society Readings:

Listen to "Twilite's Poetry Pub" now Weekly!
Enjoy the "Pub" with Carl and Tom every Wednesday from 9-10 am
on Valley Free Radio, WXOJ 103.3 fm, Northampton and now
with improved streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ !!!
Poetry to the people!
WXOJ-FM LP 103.3 and streaming at http://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: tommytwilite@gmail.com
or: FPOETS@localnet.com or visit:
http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/
or visit: http://www.tommytwilite.com/

POETRY A LA CARTE
on WMUA-Amherst 91.1 FM
5pm to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays this Summer,
streamed live at http://www.wmua.org/.
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.

Poetry at the Leverett Library

6:30 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month,

Poetry reading at the Leverett Library.

75 Montague Rd. Leverett, MA

Area poets are invited to read.
For more information contact Petriana at 413. 549.9336
or by email at pmonize@hcc.mass.edu

Greenfield/Shelburne Falls and North

Western MA Poetry Gathering
The Hope and Olive
44 Hope Street
Greenfield, MA
On December 6th there will be a gathering to celebrate the writing community in Western MA.
Come for brunch and stay for the readings and connecting with new and old friends, who
share your passion for writing and reading. Or arrive at 3 with readings starting at 3:10.
The format will be 3 minute slots. A chance to hear some of the great writers in our area
and to talk, inspire, laugh, and celebrate. We will end at 5 which then you may want to stay
for dinner and just hang.
If interested in reading contact me at paul@humanerrorpublishing.com.
Hope to see you there.

Bart’s Bards

Second Thursdays Open Microphone for Writers

Bart’s Café of Greenfield

286 Main St.

Greenfield, MA

7:00-9:00 P.M.

(Sign up to Read at 6:45)

2009 Featured Readers:

November 12: Pat Fargnoli

December 10: Tim Mayo

2010 Featured Readers:

January 14: Janet Aalfs

February 11: Julie Payne Britton

March 11: Maureen Moore

April 8: Kerry O’Keefe

May 14: Wyn Cooper

June 10: Lori Desrosiers

July 8: Janet MacFadyen

August 12: Marie Gauthier

Sept. 10: Lesle Lewis

October 14: Susie Patlove

November 11: Laura Rodley

For More Information, Please Contact:

Larry Fader (413) 475-3321

(Open Microphone Readings are 5 Minutes or Less)

Free to All

Greenfield Spoken Word
November 17th 7:00
Always the third Tuesday of the month
Juile Britton writing group will be the featured readers
9 Mill St, Greenfield, MA - Doors open at 7:00 - Open Mic starts at 7:30
Open Mic will be 10 - five-minute slots -Donation - Sliding Scale $1 - $5
Book signing and selling of local writers works will be available
Come up to read
Bring your chapbooks to sell
We will have tables at no cost
Hope to see you there

ARMS LIBRARY READING
Third Friday Prose and Poetry Readings.
7 p.m. at The Arms Library,
Corner of Main and Bridge Streets,
Shelburne Falls, Mass.
413-625-0306.

Held in the upstairs Reading Room, readers should arrive a
couple of minutes early to sign up for a reading slot, and then
have five minutes to share their work.
The building is accessible by entering at lower level
and taking the elevator upstairs.

ALL SMALL CAPS
Monday, October 26th the Deja Brew (57 Lockes Village Rd, Wendell) will open their doors at 6:30 for the first reading of our 4th season of All Small Caps and you will have a chance to catch up w/ us and everyone else. As usual, the Brew will have a full menu available, and we will begin the Open Mic around 7 or so, followed by a break, and the featured readers will begin at 8.

Speaking of featured readers, we have excellent poets for your ears:
C.A. Conrad
Susie Timmons

Collected Poets Series

The Collected Poets Series highlights the work of established and emerging poets. Each event showcases the remarkable local poets of Western Massachusetts and the finest regional, national, and international talent. The series is usually held every first Thursday of the month.

(Please contact Lea Banks at this email or 413-625-6702 for more information).

Mocha Maya’s Coffee House,
47 Bridge Street,
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370,
413-625-6292.
Wheelchair accessible. Free.

See www.collectedpoets.com or www.mochamayas.com for more information.

2009 Series
Nov. 5 April Ossman, Peter Waldor, and Pamela Stewart
Dec. 3 Mary Koncel and Kate Greenstreet

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Writing Groups
for beginning and experienced writers
Come write in an encouraging supportive environment, experience the
deepening and growth of your own writing, and contribute to the deepening
and growth of others' writing. No experience necessary--only the
willingness to put pen to paper.

Groups meet weekly in Greenfield, are ongoing, and open to all genres. We
follow the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method,
http://www.amherstwriters.com/.
$125 per 5-week session,
6 - 8 people per group.
To join or for more info
call or email Ann McNelly: 413 772 2375, amcnelly@rcn.com

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News from Mo and Booksmyth Press

The web site can be accessed with this address:
http://www.thebooksmyth.com/
Web site: http://www.thebooksmyth.com/ submission guidelines now available

The Equinox is available at http://www.thebooksmyth..com/

Word in the Berkshires

4 Slate Roof poets

Janet MacFadyen,
Susan Middleton,
Susie Patlove,
Paula Sayword

will be featured readers on

Saturday, November 14, 2009

at 7pm

as part of Inkberry's WordPlay, a monthly reading series hosted by Gail Burns, at

Papyri Books
45 Eagle St.
North Adams, MA
[right off Rt. 2]

Handicap-accessible

First half of the evening: the four SR poets reading from their work.

Intermission: refreshments and (optional) signup for the open mic.

Second half: open-mic reading, readers limited to 5 minutes each.

Copies of Susan's chapbook, Seed Case of the Heart, Susie's chapbook, Quickening (both published in 2007 by Slate Roof Press), and Janet's book, A Newfoundland Journal (published in 2009 by Killick Press) will be available for sale and signing.

Slate Roof Press is a member-run press committed to publishing Pioneer Valley poets. Designed by the poets themselves, Slate Roof chapbooks feature letterpress covers, special papers, and hand-sewn bindings.

For more information (including directions): 413.662.2099 (at Papyri Books)

For additional information regarding Inkberry or this event: contact Inkberry by phone at 413.664.0775 or visit http://www.inkberry.org

Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate and support writing and reading. Inkberry is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Power of Words, Open Mic

November 17th, Tuesday

7pm to 8:30 pm

Hosted by Garfield Reed.
This is an open opportunity to share poetry,
readings, music and other spoken word.
Free and open to the public
Berkshire South Regional Community Center
Crissey Rd. Great Barrington, MA
Every third Tuesday of the month.
Please call Garfield at 528 4127 for more information.

Meet These Local Authors and Illustrators

Saturday, November 7th, 10-12

at the Bushnell-Sage Library, Sheffield, MA

For information call 413-229-7004

Sponsored by Friends of the Bushnell-Sage Library

Sheffield. FICTION, POETRY, AND NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, AND ADULTS

Please join us to meet and greet our Berkshire talent! Books available for signing.

David Anderegg

Michael Ballon

Ann-Elizabeth Barnes

Milton Bass

Ruth Bass

Karen Berger

Cheryl Blackburn

Roy Blount

Jim Bouton

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez

David Carriere

Sharon Charde

Roselle Chartock

Michael Citrin

Jim Ciullo

Steve Donaldson

Emmanual Dongala

Bernard Drew

Susan Dworkin

Marshall Jon Fisher

John Friedman

David Giannini

Louisa Gilder

Michelle Gillett

Richard Greene

Barbara Shook Hazen

Elizabeth Hess

Ben Hillman

David Hodge

Gina Hyams

Miriam Jacobs

Brooke Janis

Jana Laiz

Gary Leveille

Tracy Mack

Sue MacVeety

Kenneth Markel

Marlene Marshall

Charles Parton

Sonia Pilcer

Doreen Rappaport

Seymour “Rob” Robins

Jacqueline Rogers

Bob Ronnow

Andrea Scott

Charles Steinhacker

Matt Tannenbaum

John Toffey

Jessica Treat

Daniel Valenti

Leslie Wheeler

Irene Willis

Richard Wise

Please join us to meet and greet our Berkshire talent! 48 Main Street (Route 7) just south of the center

Books available for signing.

For information call 413-229-7004

In Words, Out Words in Housatonic

In Housatonic, MA there is an open mic for poets and performers
of all styles and ages.
1st Tuesday of each month at
the Deb Koffman Gallery
137 Front Street,
Housatonic, MA 01236. “In Words, Out Words.”
is hosted by John Meeks and there is usually
a $7 suggested donation for heat and electricity.
There are snacks there provided by whoever wants to bring them.
The sign up technically is at 6:30 however the way it works is a
lottery system. If you go to check it out once, then you can put
your name on the contact email list. The following month you
get an email reminding you of the upcoming event.
If it’s your first time performing at In Words, Out Words,
you are guaranteed a spot on the roster as long as you reply
to the reminder email. If you’ve performed there before then
you are put into the lottery system and randomly names are selected.
Sometimes there are still slots open at the door.
The open mic begins at 7 and the featured performer goes on
for about 20 minutes. It usually lasts until between 9 and 9:30.

Zeitgeist Gallery Pittsfield

Monday Poetry Nights
6 to10pm
648 North Street in Pittsfield
call Alan Nidle, the Director at (857) 991-8448 for detail

Lee Writers Group
(every 2nd Tuesday of the month)
at the Lee Library Conference Room.

Develop and hone writing skills through constructively critiquing
others as well as receiving helpful hints and suggestions.
This forum will host a variety of short stories, poetic compilations,
insightful and original essays, and other varieties of writing similarly
tangible in length. The purpose of this group is to embody character
and narrator through obsessive directive fervor with written and
spoken words.
The group will meet every second Tuesday sharing original works
via recitation and distribution and should be prepared to accept
constructive feedback and be able to, in return, deliver such
feedback in a respectable and deliberate manner.
Contact Leewritersgroup@gmail.com
or call 413 243-8116 for further information.

Word in Ware/Palmer

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 and novelists.
All are welcome.
Call LuWanda Cheney (413) 277-9676 for a schedule.

Word in Worcester:

Thursday, Oct. 29 7:00 p.m. Fall Harvest Poetry Festival @ Quinsigamond Community College,
Harrington Learning Center (670 West Boylston Street Worcester) 9:00 p.m.
Little "a" Showcase & a Costume Slam @ The After Nine Poetry Series Friday, Oct. 30 10:00 a.m.
Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ Shrewsbury Senior Center
(100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury) 6:00 p.m.
Worcester Youth Poetry Slam workshop @ WCPA office
(1 Ekman Street, Worcester) Sunday, Nov. 1 6:00 p.m.
Jack McCarthy @ the Poets' Asylum Monday, Nov. 2 6:30 p.m.
Monday Nov. 2 Tim Mason @ The Little "a" Poetry Series 7:30 p.m.
Beth Sweeney @ the First Monday Poetry Series (First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester)
9:00 p.m.
Mark Palos and Ryan McLellan @ the Dirty Gerund Poetry Show Thursday, Nov. 5 9:00 p.m.
The After Nine Poetry Series

The Little "a" Poetry Series
at the Q Cafe, 362 Chandler St in Worcester, MA.
We run the reading every Monday night, the sign-up list for
the open mic goes up at 7:00pm and we get started shortly thereafter.

Worcester Storytellers
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.
Worcester Storytellers never charges a cover. They ask you throw some money into the basket to support the artists who feature. For more info please contact dave_@aol.com

The d'Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Reading
takes place at Assumption College (500 Salisbury Street, Worcester) in the Emmanuel d'Alzon Library on the third Friday of each month during the academic year. The format is an open mic for the first half-hour or so, a short break with refreshments and then 2 featured poets.. The reading starts at 7:00 p.m. and typically runs for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Readings run throughout the school year.

New Name - Same Great Poetry
The After Nine Poetry Series - Every Thursday Night
The The After Nine Poetry Series, formerly The Spot,
is a weekly poetry reading in the Ship Room at the Hotel Vernon
(1 Kelly Square, Worcester).

The reading is held in the Ship Room of the Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square, Worcester). The official start time is 8:00 p.m. but honestly, things get going closer to 9. Maybe this week will be different.

21+ and proper id is required

Poets Asylum
One of our favorite poets is coming to the area on tour and he'll be the feature at the Poets' Asylum tonight. Jack McCarthy is a working guy from the Boston area who's been writing poetry since the mid-60s. He'd been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she'd get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked. He doesn't think of himself as a "performance poet," but as a "standup poetry guy," a writer of poems that perform themselves.

Poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they're saying and how they're saying it. Slam poetry can be moving, funny and deadly serious, sometimes all in the same poem. If that sounds like a good time then join us for some great words.

Come on down to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The reading starts at 6:00 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.

The Dirty Gerund
There's a new poetry reading in town! The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show will be held every Monday night starting at 8:30 p.m. The reading is being held at Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner (148 Grove Street, Worcester) and is hosted by Rushelle Frazier. There will be an open mic every week with a mix of poetry s lams and featured poets.
No cover; donations accepted. 21+
Please join us at our new home,

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
twobunny@earthlink.net.

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!

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Riverwood Poetry Series Presents

Underwood Cafe, featuring Geri Radasci and Alexandrina (Sandy) Sergio

Thursday, October 29, 6:30 p.m.

Wood Memorial Library

783 Main Street

South Windsor, CT 06074

www.woodmemoriallibrary.org

860-289-1783

Presented by: Riverwood Poetry Series, www.riverwoodpoetry.org.

Entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed, café-style atmosphere. Featured Poet, Open mic, Refreshments. Admission is free: donations gratefully accepted. Donations of non-perishable foods will also be accepted for the benefit of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry.

About the featured poets:

Geri Radasci's third poetry collection, Tightrope Walker, is based on works of art. These new poems are intensely personal and impressionistic, not bound by the confines of their sources, although they also throw new light on a wide variety of artwork. Ms. Radacsi has been a journalist, English teacher, communication/media specialist, and freelance writer. Currently, she is Associate Director of University Relations, Emerita, at Central Connecticut State University. Alexandrina Sergio's new collection, My Daughter Is Drummer in the Rock ’n Roll Band offers a rich variety of moods: the sad poems contain moments of wry wit, and the overtly humorous or raucous poems contain deeper undercurrents. Ms. Sergio traces her passion for poetry to her mother’s habit of mixing the works of Celtic poets into bedtime tales. As an English teacher, Sandy coached prize-winning student poets. Subsequent careers in mental health and philanthropy-consulting encroached on writing time, but retirement has allowed broader opportunities.

Riverwood Poetry Series Presents:

Undead Poets' Halloween Party

Saturday, October 31, 6:30 p.m.

The Buttonwood Tree

605 Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457

www.buttonwood.org

860-347-4957

Presented by: Riverwood Poetry Series, www.riverwoodpoetry.org.

Can the bards be dead when their words are undying? “No!” cries Riverwood Series, mysterious medium of Connecticut poetry. Come on down, place your hands upon the table, and experience Poe, Millay, Service, Sexton, and more as Riverwood embodies his—or is it her?—favorite dead poets this Halloween. Plus! Make your own favorite poet “undead” in the open mic. You can even come in costume, if the spirit moves you… Suggested donation $3.00. Donations of non-perishable foods will also be accepted for the benefit of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry.

News From Antrim House
Antrim House is pleased to announce that poems by Norah Pollard will be read by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac” this coming Thursday and Friday, October 29 & 30. Most public radio stations carry the program. If you are unable to hear Norah’s poems (“The Sum of a Man” and “She Dreamed of Cows”) on the radio, you’ll be able to listen to (and read) them online at writersalmanac.publicradio.org, where you will also find ancillary information concerning poet and poem.

In addition, Rennie McQuilkin’s poem “The Digging” will be featured on “The Writer’s Almanac” this coming Tuesday, October 27.

Another way to help Norah celebrate her new book, Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom, will be to attend her reading at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 15. It will be part of a new poetry series, Poetry on the Line, at the Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St. in Windsor, CT (“the place where verse, artwork and the main line meet”). Norah will be reading with Steve Foley, whose 2007 poetry collection, A Place at the Table, is a book not to be missed. Steve is a splendid reader, as is Norah, so do come to hear them, along with a flute & cello performance by Minta White and Michael Linert. The program is free and will be followed at 3:15 by a reception at which you can join lots of area poets and lovers of poetry as we circle our wagons against these barbaric times.

Poetry at Broad Street Books
First Tuesday in November
Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00pm
Featuring Rennie McQuilkin!
On the first Tuesday of every month, Broad Street Books hosts a featured poet followed by an open mic. All are welcome to come and read, recite, perform their work!

Rennie McQuilkin’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. He is the author of ten poetry collections, the most recent of which is The Weathering: New & Selected Poems (2009); and he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the State of Connecticut. He co-founded and for nine years directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. In 2003 he received the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Rennie McQuilkin lives in Simsbury, CT, where he is the publisher & editor of Antrim House Books.
Come help us welcome Rennie McQuilkin to the store and share some of your own work too!
Broad Street Books
45 Broad Street
Middletown, CT 06457

14th Annual ‘Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash’
Saturday, November 7 2009, 6:30 P.M.
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street
Program begins with a reception at 6:30 P.M.
Featured Speaker—MARJORIE PERLOFF
Beyond Adagia: Eccentric Design in Wallace Stevens' Poetry
“Poetry is a pheasant disappearing in the brush.” —Wallace Steven, Adagia
Birthday Cake & Champagne after the Program!
Tickets: $45 per person. Send check payable to:
Connecticut Center for the Book
500 Main Street
Hartford CT 06103.
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Connecticut Center for the Book at the Hartford Public Library
with help from The Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens.

Nancy Eimers Read as Part of A.K. Smith Series
Nancy Eimers, an award-winning poet and creative writer, will read from her work as part of the ongoing Allan K. Smith Fall Reading Series at Trinity College. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:30PM

Reese Room, Smith House on the campus on Trinity College

115 Vernon Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Nancy Eimers is the author of three collections of poetry: A Grammar to Waking (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), No Moon, winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize (Purdue University Press), and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1991). She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including Best American Poetry 1996, Poets of the New Century, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Field. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College, and she lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Tracy Quigley at 860/297-2568, or by email at Tracy.Quigley@trincoll.edu.

WORDFORGE - A new reading series
will kick-off with an open mike benefit for a local food bank...

Monday Nov. 16, 7pm—Fall Harvest Reading
Bring a non-perishable food item or small donation for a local foodbank.
Open Mike
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Monday Dec. 7, 7pm—Brickwalk Poets
Featuring current and former members of the Brickwalk Poets group.
Plus Open Mike.

WordForge Reading Series
Location: The Studio @ Billings Forge
563 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106
(Parking at Firebox Restaurant or along Broad Street.)
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