Julie Rosier, writer extraordinaire and facilitator of writing groups for 10 years in Western Massachusetts, is starting her Red Thread Writing Circles on December 7. Two 10-week writing workshops, one will run on Wednesday evenings in Easthampton and on Thursday evenings in Northampton. Contact Julie at jrosier06@gmail.com for more details.
Jonathan Wright and Dan Levy will read at the Smith College Neilson Browsing Room on Sunday, November 20 at 4 pm. This is a part of the Gallery of Readers Series.
Crosswinds has been kind. My poem “The Existence of God” has placed in their finalists for their annual poetry award and publication.
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.
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.
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
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!
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:
Did you know that Massachusetts is one of only five states without an official poet laureate? The home of Bishop, Bradstreet, Dickinson, Cummings, Kunitz, Longfellow, Frost, Olson, Sexton, Plath, Lowell… And no poet laureate? Ouch!
A bill to remedy the situation has already passed the state house. Contact the senate Ways and Means Committee to ask that the bill is brought up for a vote, and that we have a Massachusetts state poet laureate.
The London Book Festival Awarded Banshees an Honorable Mention among Poetry Books for 2016. I am grateful for the acknowledgment of my work.
–Hart Crane
