Sunday, December 10, 2017

-----ANOTHER LAWRENCE OPEN MIC---------

FUERZA! 

  Mixed...Spanish/English Cultura and language!
  young (but open)
  ....a bit more slam-style....so bring your throat drops!
So FAR:
   WED  DECEMBER  13th .... 6pm
   WED  JANUARY (2018)  17th .... 6pm

At.....Lawrence MA Public Library,

  For more information please contact
  Yaneris Collado @ 978-208-9843 or
   colladoyaneris@gmail.com

-----------IMMINENT HOOT!-------------------

We will have two featured poets and an open mic
   at the December 12, 2017 Frost Hoot.
    (at Cafe Azteca, 7pm--9pm ,
     180 Common St, Lawrence, MA 01840)

Here are the bios of the featured readers:

Gayle C. Heney is a former North Andover 2-term Poet Laureate.
She is the award winning producer and host of the TV series
Write Now. She is the editor of the poetry anthology Songs
from the Castle’s Remains and Lois Sargent’s Leaf Sorrow
Tree Strong, which will be published by early 2018. Her poems
have appeared in Moments Falling Open, MethuenLife, The
Underground Movement, and Northern Essex Community College’s
Peace Poetry Contest chapbooks. Gayle Heney has taught poetry
at the Peabody Essex Museum, libraries, senior centers,
schools, Essex Art Center, Rolling Ridge Conference Center,
 Salem Arts Festivals, retirement communities,
  Cape Ann Museum and MA Poetry’s Student Day of Poetry.


A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Joy Gonsalves
earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the
University of Florida and spent the first few years
of her career teaching Introduction to Literature,
Poetry, and Composition at various schools and universities,
including our own Northern Essex.  She is the recipient of
an Individual Artist Grant from the KY Foundation for Women,
a Walker Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, and a Cave Canem (pronounced KAH-ve KAH-nem)
felllowship.  Her poems have appeared in Verse, Mosaic,
The Independent, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals.
A wife and mother of three children, Joy currently
homeschools her two youngest.  She will be reading
from a series of poems inspired by her childhood,
 which is the setting for her first (and forthcoming)
  full-length collection. 


Remaining time will be divided for the open mic quantity,
   and we will be trying out a timer to assure that
   run-ons don't wipe out our time for announcements.

See you there!

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

---------LOCAL POETRY PUBLISHERS AND SHOPS----------------

On the holidays, don't forget to get paper treats or treat yourself!


Haverhill:    PEAR TREE PUBLISHING
              20 South Porter Street
             Haverhill, MA 01835
             http://www.peartreepublishing.net/
               ....book publishing for authors

Haverhill:  ANABIOSIS PRESS , journal Albatross
          (environmentally-oriented poetry, publishing)
         http://www.anabiosispress.org/index2.html
         rsmyth@anabiosispress.org
       
Andover:  Andover Book Store
         74 Main St, Andover, MA 01810

Lawrence:   El Taller  (en Engles: The Workshop)
             Cafe featuring a menu of coffee, breakfast,
            sandwiches & Mexican fare, plus shelves of books.
             275 Essex St, Lawrence, MA 01840
            (Cuisine is fresh modern Mexican...yum)

Friday, December 1, 2017

----DECEMBER GOINGS ON-----------------------



-------------In the All-Literation Nation-----------------

DECEMBER  4th, GREY COURT POETS
            At the Nevins Library , 7PM-9pm
            Read 1 poem and bring 12 copies for others to comment on
           (or just come and see)

DECEMBER 12th ,    FROST HOOT
      At Cafe Azteca in Lawrence MA, 7PM--9pm
      Features:    Gayle Heney   and Joy Gonsalves

DECEMBER 17th,  MERRIMAC MIC
     In the Merrimac Public Library, 10:30am  (Sunday)

( Tuesday4Poetry will resume in January)
      At the N.Andover Public Library , 7-9pm

(Haverhill River Bards events resume in March)



--------------------Nearby Towns------------------

(Powow River readings resume in January: see 2018 schedule below)

David Davis / Joppa Flats reading ...




(3rd Saturdays , 6-8 pm)
 Zumi's Espresso
40 Market Street, Ipswich, MA 01938