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!
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“Gathering the Light” Reading July 29 at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA
The Gallery of Readers will present four poets, including Jonathan Wright and Eileen Kennedy, at 7 pm on Friday, July 29 at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA. This reading is in conjunction with the exhibit “Gathering of Light.” Join us.

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I’m So Grateful to Concrete Wolf for Making me a Finalist for their Louis Prize check out the website below
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Voice for Resistance Reading
Voices for Resistance Reading Monday June 4 at 7 pm at the Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, Northampton, MA
Features Martin Espada, Nicole M. Young, the Nields, with Maria Jose Gimenez, Lauren Marie Schmidt, Eileen P. Kennedy, Ellen LaFleche, Dina Friedman, Christopher J. Sparks and Theresa Vincent. An open mic will be available for readers who come by 6:45 pm.
Free to Attend. Open to the Public.

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Straw Dog Compass Roads Reading at the Jones Library May 24
Straw Dog Writers Guild is sponsoring a reading of Compass Roads on Thursday, May 24 at the Jones Library in Amherst, MA. Pioneer Valley Poets read poems about the Pioneer Valley. Join us.
The Quabbin Writers Will Read Saturday in Amherst

The Quabbin Writers Salon will read on Saturday April 21 in the Amherst Room of the Jones Library in Amherst at 3 pm from their anthology, Microbursts. Come join us.
Mass Poetry “Poem of the Moment”
I am very grateful that Mass Poetry has used one of my poems for “Poem of the Moment.” It will be up until April 17. Check it out:
Join Straw Dogs Writers Guild at a Reading of Compass Roads on Sat. April 14 at 4 pm

Silkworm 11 Is Open for Submissions

They look forward to reading your poems!
From the Nicaraguan Poet Francisco de Asis Fernandez

Anunque el cuerpo se marchite
Hay un misterio que sobrepasa mi llanto y mi sobriedad.
¿Qué esconden las tinieblas? ¿Qué disrazan las sombras?
Cuando era niño lloraba
No entendia la noche
Que tiene un dulce aroma de tierra pisada por las pajaros,
Y ahora no entiendo la muerte,
Aunque sepa que es cuando la luz se abre en el infinito
Y los ojos dejan de llorar.
Although the body may fade
There is a mystery greater than my weeping and my sorrow.
What does darkness hide, what do shadows disguise?
When I was a boy I used to cry.
I did not understand night
With its sweet aroma of earth softly trodden by birds,
and now I do not understand death,
although I am aware that it is when light opens to infinity
and eyes cease weeping.
