Worcester County Poetry Association

Worcester County poets, we look forward to receiving your work!

This Thursday at 7-10pm, come to the Poetorium @ Starlite open mic & reading series featuring Bruce Michael Galli--fb event page here: facebook.com/events/8727536…

There are four upcoming WCPA events this week! Check our calendar for full details: worcestercountypoetry.org/events/

Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bishop! We celebrate her with "In the Waiting Room," which begins "In Worcester, Massachusetts..." poets.org/poem/waiting-r…

A poetry reading series aims to bring poets together across Mass. and Connecticut. @MegSmith_Writer bit.ly/3XCaV4n

We at the WCPA congratulate @oliver_delaPaz on being named Worcester's new poet laureate! worcestermag.com/story/entertai…

Our own Christopher @Reilley will read tomorrow evening with Harris Gardner and Michael C. Keith in the Newton Public Library series, free registration required #poetry #poets #WCPA newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/7342526?…

Happy birthday to Canadian-born American poet Mark Strand (1934; d.2014), 4th poet laureate of the U.S., won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for his book Blizzard of One. poets.org/poet/mark-stra… #WCPA #PoetsBirthday

A poem may hold the unwieldy pieces of the earth together with a whole heart; a poem may cut that heart to lace. —Sandra Lim, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow poets.org/poem/certainty

Happy poetic birthday to Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821; d.1867), French poet, essayist, and art critic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%… #WCPA #Poet #PoetBirthday

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." - Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Explore our Learn page to find our latest articles on teaching poetry to all ages. #NationalPoetryMonth bit.ly/3dFTo5Z

@kendall_shareef Congratulations!

Tomorrow is the big day. My first published poetry book ever! I remember writing my bio and thinking of my future plans, and now the future is today. One step further up the mountain I go, and I’m not stopping in the middle! #writerslife #WritingCommunity

Announcement: The 2021 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry are Sandra Lim, Ellen Bass, Don Mee Choi, Andrea Cohen, Stephen Kuusisto, Tracie Morris, Craig Morgan Teicher, Roberto José Tejada, Connie Voisine, & Mark Wunderlich. (Guggenheim Foundation) #pdnews gf.org/announcement-2…

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." - Toni Morrison

We're pleased to announce that Claudia Rankine has selected Kemi Alabi @kemiaalabi as the recipient of the 2021 @POETSorg First Book Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for a poet, for their manuscript, AGAINST HEAVEN: poets.org/claudia-rankin…

@KevinSterling That depends. Hemingway suggested that you should "Write drunk. Edit sober." #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Whiskey. Does help or hurt the writing? Discuss. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amnotwriting

Announcement: John Murillo was named the 2021 winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award for his collection "Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry." He will receive a $100,000 prize. (Daily Bulletin) #pdnews dailybulletin.com/2021/04/07/ont…

tinyurl.com/vd5dkm4m Charles Coe #Poet #poetry Sunday April 11, 7 PM on Zoom Into Poetry

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! Librarians, there's still time to request a free copy of the 2021 #NationalPoetryMonth poster! Order before the request line closes on April 12. poets.org/national-poetr…