Join Straw Dog Writers on Saturday, October 19, 2019 711 pm for the Annual Dead Writers Dance and have a literary Halloween. Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA. $20 before $25 at the door. Dress as your favorite dead poet.
Great Fall International Word Festival
Join Florence Poets Saturday, Oct. 12 7 p.m. at the Shea Theater, Turners Falls for a reading at the Great Falls International Word Festival
Gerry Yelle
Anita Gellers
Linda Wiodyka
Sashsa Berman
Eileen P. Kennedy
Tommy Twilit
Howie Faerstein
Rosie McMahan
Poems from the Wellspring Reading
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It was two good nights of readings at Wellspring House
for the launch of the new anthology, Poems from the Wellspring, from publisher Poetic License in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Readings At Wellspring House Friday and Saturday
Poems from the
Wellspring (Poetic License, 2019) will be launched this weekend at Wellspring House,
284 Main Street, Ashfield, MA, in honor of Wellspring House’s 20th Anniversary and the
90th Birthday of the Director, Preston Browning on Friday, July 26 at 8 pm and Saturday,
July 27 at 8 pm. Refreshments and a reading. Come join us.
Reading at the Forbes May 1
The Writing Room will be reading at the Calvin Coolidge Museum of the Forbes Library in Northampton on Wednesday, May 1, at 7 pm. Come join us!
March and Art Exhibit in March
March on Saturday March 16 at 1 pm sponsored by the Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton
Bring a sign with your favorite cause. Signs of the Times Art Exhibit will be on display in the Mezzanine at the Centre for the Arts. 413-564-0068
Poetry 180
Has anyone read Billy Collins’ poetry 180: a turning back to poetry?
It’s a collection of accessible poetry that he compiled while he was poet laureate with everyone from C.S. Lewis to Jane Yolen to Richard Brautigan. This is a version of the 180 Library of Congress website (www. loc.gov/poetry/180.) The purpose was to assemble “a generous collection of short, clear, contemporary poems. Enjoy!
THE LATIN POETS – Pablo Neruda
Abeja blanca zumbas, ebria de miel, en mi alma
y tu tuerces en lentas espirales de humo.
White bee, you buzz in my soul, drunk with honey,
and your flight winds in slow spirals of smoke.
It’s Good to Be in a Different Setting to Write
I enjoy the change of climate and scenery in Costa Rica. Will it change my writing?
Mike Poblete’s Play -Rave Reviews
“‘Best Bet’. In Mike Poblete’s intriguing new play, Surfacing, the four-person cast is strong. Surfacing is a play that succeeds on all levels. It’s comic, punchy, uncensored dialog is enough to make anyone relax. The language is definitely for adults, yet leaves space for one’s inner child…Seeing a bunch of talented, sensitive characters who all have social anxiety and deep-seated feelings of inadequacy is a helpful reminder that, yes, probably some part of us is achieving things in spite of ourselves. And Poblete’s remarkable writing comes vividly to life…”
—Ed Molin, theasy.comhttp://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2018/S/surfacing.php
“Surfacing was hands down brilliant. Poblete holds a deep tome peppered with great wit. He understands of concept of dark comedy.”
–Jade Fernandez, journal of independent stage and film reviews, Top of he Line Piece, https://outerstage.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/top-of-the-line-piece
Running through August 3 at the Flamboyant Theater, the Clemente, Suffolk Street.
Eileen P. Kennedy Author 