Tag: Collected Poets Series
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Collected Poets Series: Galway Kinnell!
Exciting news! This Sunday, July 6th, at 7:00pm, the Collected Poets Series is sponsoring a special reading with the poet Galway Kinnell. He will read from his work at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. Galway Kinnell has received the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Frost Medal, and a…
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Collected Poets Series.
On Thursday, June 5th, at 7:30pm, poets Chard deNiord, author of three books of poetry including the recent Night Mowing, and Susie Patlove, the author of Quickening, will read from their most recent work at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. Chard deNiord is the author of three books of poetry,…
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NaPoWriMo Redux.
Our downstairs neighbor moved, taking our wireless with her, though we were unaware that she was our source until we suddenly had no internet — hence my silence here since the new month began. We took the bull by the horns, nasty beast, and signed up for a wireless account of our very own, which…
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Collected Poets Series
Next in the Collected Poets Series: This Thursday, May 1st, at 7:30pm, poets Alicia Ostriker, a major American poet and critic, and author of eleven volumes of poetry, including The Volcano Sequence and No Heaven, and Frannie Lindsay, whose newest volume of poetry, Lamb, was selected for the Perugia Press Award, will read from their…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 4.
I’m two poems behind, but never mind — 4 poems in 6 days is lightning-fast for me. Having a project in mind helps. The Collected Poets Series reading with Annie Boutelle and Jack Wiler was phenomenal — what a mix! Annie’s Scottish burr was mesmerizing, strongest as she read from Nest of Thistles, my favorite…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 2.
I was miraculously able to eke out enough time last night to write another poem, another Pleiades — I’m really enjoying this form, have decided to write a series of poems, Spring Pleiades, based on it. This poem flowed much quicker, probably because I spent so much time last go-around, and had a better idea…
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Collected Poets Series.
To celebrate National Poetry Month, the Collected Poets Series has not one but two spectacular events planned for this week: On Thursday, April 3rd, at 7:30pm, Annie Boutelle, founder of the Poetry Center at Smith College and author of three collections of poems, and New Jersey performance poet, Jack Wiler, will read from their most…
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Le Bossu et Tim Mayo.
Labor Day weekend in 1998 I was in Montreal. As it happens, that’s also the weekend that they have a film festival every year, which I discovered accidentally walking down Elizabeth St. in the evening: a film was being shown against a building, just beginning, actually, and people were sitting all over. So I sat…
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Patricia Fargnoli.
When not getting exactly as he wishes, Vincent has taken to plaintively crying, “Honey, please. Please, Honey.” Honey? It’s very unsettling. * Readers continue to discover this blog because of my bout with shingles. Also unsettling. * I was paging through Pat’s newest book of poems, Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005.) wondering which…
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Collected Poets Series.
It’s that time again: Patricia Fargnoli and Tim Mayo will read this Thursday night at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House in Shelburne Falls for the March installment of the Collected Poets Series. Patricia Fargnoli is the current Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and the author of five collections of poetry. Her latest book Duties of the…
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