Crosswinds has been kind. My poem “The Existence of God” has placed in their finalists for their annual poetry award and publication.
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Reading Nov. 10
Get out of your post-election funk with a great poetry reading. Perugia Press, celebrating 20 years of publishing, presents the Collected Poets Series featuring Carol Edelstein and Lisa Allen Ortiz at Mocha Maya’s on Thursday, November 10 at 7 pm in Mocha Maya’s Cafe, Shelburne Falls.
Greenfield Annual Word Festival
The Greenfield Annual Word Festival will run from Tuesday, October 18th to Sunday, October 23rd in Greenfield. I will be reading on Friday at 7 pm the Root Cellar, 10 Fiske Ave. with some wonderful poets including Lori Desrosiers, Anita Gallers, Debbie Tosun Kilday, Colin Haskings, Michael L. Kilday, to name a few. Join us for this word marathon.
Reading at Amherst Art Walk October 6
Join me and four other fabulous poets at the Amherst Arts Night at the Emily Dickinson Museum on Thursday, October 6 at approximately 7 pm
Featured Readers are:
Howie Faerstein
Tommy Twilite Clark
Gerald Yelle
Marian Kent
There will also be Poetry Open Mic at 6 and Art in the Homestead by Rebecca Fricke. It should be a great night.
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/node/558
Jim Gambaro Photography at the Cooley Dick North Gallery in September
I just saw a really interesting photography exhibit by local photographer Jim Gambaro at the North Gallery of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. It’s called “Soft Focus.”
Check it out. It runs the month of September.
The critics have been kind
The reviews are in and “One Down,” the new play by my son, Michael, is a hit.
“The play, written by Mike Poblete…is a moving, frequently funny look at loss, raging, drams and human connection.”
–Deborah Martin, Arts Writer, San Antonio Express-News
If you’re in San Antonio area , you can catch it at the Overtime Theatre through August 27.
If you’re in the NYC area, Michael has a new play going up on August 15 at the Louise Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St at 4 pm, called “Surfacing.” It’s free, but you need to register for a ticket.
Surfacing: Aug. 15 in Greenwich Village
I’m very excited to announce my son Michael’s newest play, SURFACING, being developed by Primary Stages as part of the Drills 2016 series! For you non-theater folk, Primary Stages is a celebrated Off-Broadway company. Basically, this is kind of a big deal for Michael.
The month long rewrite process culminates with a FREE staged reading Monday, August 15th at 4pm at the Lucille Lortel Theater in Greenwich Village. Here’s the link to book your seat:
I will still be in Europe at that time, but I hope you can make it. It is free, but you need to book a seat.
Art Opening
Horse Show
Opening June 12THE HORSE SHOW invitation
Friday through Sunday afternoons, 2 – 5:00 p.m.*
June 2nd – 25th, 2016
The Leverett Arts and Crafts Center
13 Montague Road, Leverett Massachusetts
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*or by arrangement with Bella (bella@crocker.com) (413- 256-6454)
This show is dedicated to Russell Freedman
Reading June 1 at Forbes Library
There will be a reading of work by poets, novelists, memoir writers, essayists and journalists on Wednesday, June 1 at 7 pm at the Forbes Library. Join us!
Winning Writers Has Been Kind
I was grateful to learn I earned Honorable Mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest:
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Honorable Mention:
- Donald Adamson, Proper and Enduring, Poetry
- David Hill, After Wounded Knee, Poetry
- Justin Hunt, My Mother, My Father, Poetry
- Laura M. Kaminski, Hush, Poetry
- Ray Keifetz, Night Farming in Bosnia, Poetry
- Maribeth Pittman, Two Women in an Unbalanced Street Scene, Poetry
- Shoshauna Shy, Keepsake, Poetry
- Eileen P. Kennedy, Migration, Traditional Verse
- Allegra Keys, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Traditional Verse
- Kathleen McClung, Lighter Than Her Lace: A Crown of Borrowed Self-Portraits, Traditional Verse
- Katy McKinney, Worm Bin Sestina, Traditional Verse
- Stuart J. Silverman, Letter to Her Father, Traditional Verse
- Jeff Walt, Serial Killer Sonnet, Traditional Verse
Judge Ellaraine Lockie comments on the winning entries
Traditional poetry forms have had a blockbuster year in the 2015 Contest. The winners’ list includes: two sonnet crowns, two sestinas, a villanelle, a palindrome, a pantoum, an elegy, three ekphrastic poems, and two poems with such distinct and unique construction as to be classified nonce forms. Read our press release announcing the winners.
You can read my winning poem, and the other winners as well at:
