With Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 12 – 3 PM Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street Entrance “Moody Street” Cafeteria, 4th floor Make homes for all your poems by constructing simple books from recycled materials! Whether they are your own poems or selections from favorite poets, they’ll be enhanced by being presented in [...]
Small Press Panel
Coordinated by Bootstrap Press SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 11 AM – 12 Noon Brush Art Gallery and Studios
Workshop: “Creating Community with a Reading Series”
With Ann Killough SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 11 AM – 12 Noon New England Quilt Museum Join this discussion led by three veteran poetry-series organizers about how to start a reading series and encourage the growth of community around it. Topics covered will include the practicalities (finding venues and readers, publicity, fees) as well as thornier [...]
Group Reading: “Poetry from the Heart of the Commonwealth”
Presented by Poetry Oasis, Inc. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 11 AM – 12 Noon Pollard Memorial Library Join some of Worcester County’s finest poets for a unique program featuring Dan Lewis with a surreal prose/poetry series accompanied by musician Michael Milligan; Eve Rifkah reading the poetry of Worcester’s poet laureate and Holocaust survivor, Gertrude Halstead; Susan Roney-O’Brien, [...]
POEM OF THE MOMENT:
by Frank Bidart
What none knows is when, not if.
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think, It is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is
new, but the same. What none knows is...
Read the complete poem here.
Or hear Frank Bidart read Saturday afternoon at the festival in Salem.
Or study this poem as part of Common Threads--a National Poetry month celebration.
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Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
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