Tag: Collected Poets Series
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The Secret Draft.
Last week I met with the rest of the Collected Poets Series (CPS) board to begin planning the 2010 readings. After we’d been at it for about 3 hours, Lance showed up with the boys to check in, and asked if we’d seen the “dragonfly tornado” across the street. Naturally, we poet/shut-ins had noticed nothing…
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Collected Poets Series: July Ed.
This Thursday, July 2nd, at 7:30pm, the Collected Poets Series features Dara Wier, Lesle Lewis, and Elizabeth Hughey. This will be our last reading until October, so don’t miss out! Dara Wier‘s books include Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, Hat on a Pond, and Voyages in English. Awards include American Poetry Review’s Jerome…
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Collected Poets Series: The MA Poet Laureate Ed.
Tomorrow, June 4th at 7:30 p.m., the Collected Poets Series features the poetry of Massachusetts’ current Poet Laureates, Lesléa Newman of Northampton and Gertrude Halstead of Worcester, at Mocha Maya’s, 47 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls, MA. Eve Rifkah will be reading Ms. Halstead’s work in absentia . Lesléa Newman is the author of 57 books…
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CPS & Maxine Kumin: A Report.
Last year, when we had Galway Kinnell for a CPS reading, we had to turn people away at the door. This year for Maxine Kumin, we thought ahead, and instead of having the reading at Mocha Maya’s, they co-sponsored the event with us and we hosted it at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, which has seating…
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Collected Poets Series, Extra Ed.
This Sunday, May 24th, at 7:30 p.m., the former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prizewinner Maxine Kumin, and award winning poet Sydney Lea will read from their work at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, 53 Main Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. This extraordinary event is sponsored by the Collected Poets Series and Mocha Maya’s.…
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Further adventures with eczema.
I took Aidan, now nearly 4 1/2 months old, to the dermatologist today, and he was duly impressed by the baby’s poor scaly state. It’s really awful. He’s not sleeping more than 2 hours together, he’s so uncomfortable. And he looks dreadful. Except for those brightly serious blue eyes of his — when you look…
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Collected Poets Series, May Ed.
The Collected Poets Series is throwing a Post-Poetry Month Bash! On Thursday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m., award-winning poets Dorianne Laux from Raleigh, NC, Genie Zeiger from Shelburne Falls, MA, and Kerry O’Keefe from Northampton, MA, plus special guest, Joseph Millar from Oregon, will read from their work at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House in Shelburne…
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Collected Poets Series, NPM Ed.
The Collected Poets Series is honored to host four superb poets to celebrate National Poetry Month. On Sunday, March 29th, at 7:30 pm, a National Poetry Month Primer with prizewinning poets Martha Collins, author of five collections of poetry including Blue Front, and Lynne Thompson, author of the poetry collection Beg No Pardon, will read…
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Short newsy post ending with a Spontaneous Vision of Cuteness.
The CPS reading last night with Nikky Finney, Tara Betts, and the ladies of the Holyoke Care Center was phenomenal! The energy & passion in that room was just amazing, and, as Tara & Nikky both noted, it was like a continuum, the poetry torch passed down from Nikky to Tara to the talented teen…
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Collected Poets Series, March Ed.
This Thursday, March 5, 2009, at 7:30 p.m, the Collected Poets Series is sponsoring a benefit for the Holyoke Care Center’s Teen Mother Education and Support Program. The teenagers will be reading their poetry with the poet activist Nikky Finney and the talented performance poet advocate from NYC, Tara Betts. Nikky Finney was born in…
Marie Gauthier 