Archive | August, 2008

Group Reading: “Poets of the South Coast”

Featuring Everett Hoagland SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 4 – 5 PM La Boniche, Side Dining Room Everett Hoagland, former poet laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts, will headline a reading featuring some of the South Coast’s finest poets.  

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“Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop”

Featuring Lloyd Schwartz SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 5 – 6 PM Ole Restaurant & Tapas Bar, Side Dining Room Elizabeth Bishop is one of the great Massachusetts poets. She’s now the first woman poet to have an entire Library of America volume devoted to her work. The co-editor of that landmark edition, poet, Pulitzer Prize-winning music [...]

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Poetry & Music: Featuring Eileen Myles, Joe Torra, Frank Morey & Dave Robinson

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 4 – 5:30 PM Lowell National Historical Park Visitors Center Theater           Presented by UMass Lowell’s Urban Village Arts Series (UVAS), this music & poetry performance will showcase the talents of poets Eileen Myles, Joseph Torra and Dave Robinson, with a musical performance by locally renowned musican Frank Morey.

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Poetry Exploration: Exercise in Free Writing

With Barbara Helfgott Hyett & PoemWorks SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 11 AM – 12 Noon & 4 – 5 PM Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street Entrance Invention Factory, 3rd floor Exercise your creativity through “free writing” exercises meant to inspire! First, enjoy a reading by a master poet. Once read, you will write off [...]

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