tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88439607324259361002023-11-16T03:55:09.251-08:00FROST.....NEWSLINEActivities of the Robert Frost Foundation
in Lawrence Massachusetts,
and nearby town organizations.FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-24068071198197720052022-05-15T09:08:00.003-07:002022-05-15T11:15:54.332-07:00<p> <b>------Results of the 2022 Robert Frost Poetry Contest!---------</b>-</p><p> </p><p>===============</p><p>(No.1) </p><p> "Visitation at Dinner " Linda Flaherty Haltmaier Beverly, MA </p><p>(Runners-up!)</p><p>Summer Thunderstorms Robert R. Bowie jr. Monkton Maryland</p><p>"When a Black Bear Came to Truro" Sandy Longley Provincetown, MA </p><p>"The Force of my Mother" Rosa Swann Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand.</p><p>"A Serpent" Rosa Swann Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand.</p><p>"Something to be Said" James B. Nicola New York, NY </p><p>"Beauty vs Sanity" Hailey Peterson Lisbon, NH</p><p>"Loosed from the Ground..." Sandy Longley Provincetown, MA </p><p>"Pulling Back the Drapes " Joan Leotta Calabash, NC</p><p>"Volunteer Coach: A Tribute" Michael Zahn Poinciana Florida</p><div>===============</div><p><br /></p><p>Top Poem, for the 2022 Robert Frost Poetry Contest</p><p> "Visitation at Dinner" </p><p> By Linda Flaherty Haltmaier (Beverly, MA USA)</p><p>It has been a while</p><p>since the gash in the ground </p><p>swallowed my mother––</p><p>her brass and mahogany chariot </p><p>slipped beneath the feet of the living </p><p>and the crying,</p><p>each cradling a lily plucked in silence,</p><p>a starburst of remembrance</p><p>sanctified by the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Life hurtled on,</p><p>gained speed, </p><p>her funeral card dropped into</p><p>the drawer of confusing objects,</p><p>cousin to the junk drawer,</p><p>where locks of baby hair, worn keychains,</p><p>and collars of pets long passed</p><p>are stashed and pushed about––</p><p>their value utterly worthless</p><p>yet incalculable.</p><p>The paradox of what is left behind.</p><p><br /></p><p>But somehow my mother showed up </p><p>at dinner the other night</p><p>between sips of Cabernet</p><p>and knowing laughs with friends. </p><p>Slipped the bolt </p><p>from the other side </p><p>and waved me through to a place </p><p>where grace grows like phlox in May,</p><p>redolent and lush.</p><p> </p><p>And as if sprinkled with </p><p>the forgetting waters of Lethe,</p><p>I felt my armored heart bend</p><p>toward curiosity, </p><p>filled with a fondness </p><p>for the person she was </p><p>and tried to be,</p><p>wondering about the origin story</p><p>of the freckled redhead </p><p>who loved to play stickball</p><p>with the boys.</p><p> </p><p>How this visitation occurred is unclear,</p><p>perhaps Dickens’ undigested bit of beef</p><p>or a strange alchemy of time, distance,</p><p>and red wine––</p><p>but something softened, </p><p>rage gone slack</p><p>for a sip or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stripped of my bespoke grievances,</p><p>I could see her beyond the threshold,</p><p>perhaps the way god sees us––</p><p>flawed and fallible,</p><p>worthy of love,</p><p>swinging full tilt </p><p>at both balls and strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>---------------------------- sampled runners-up --------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>From Sandy Longley, Provincetown, MA :</p><p>When a Black Bear Came to Truro</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to think of him swimming the Canal</p><p>unnoticed, against the current, against</p><p>credulity, legs stronger than any freestyler,</p><p>a dark shadow in salt water and then</p><p>lumbering his maleness, his aloneness</p><p>north on 6A to Ballston Beach.</p><p>“It was a black bear, all right –</p><p>sure as you were born,” said Tommy Dyer,</p><p>a fisherman on The Little Eva.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to think of him, scratching his back on</p><p>pitch pines, leaving scat in his wake:</p><p>grubs, apples, seeds – steam rising like a signal,</p><p>and him mumbling, squeaking, panting–</p><p>a scent of a young sow perhaps, a scent of</p><p>Wampanoag fires, of ancient deer bones,</p><p>swales of genetic memory guiding him</p><p>back home under a purple sky – part</p><p>healer, part magician that was bear.</p><div>-----------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>From Robert R. Bowie jr.</div><div> Monkton Md :</div><div></div><div>Summer Thunderstorms</div><div><br /></div><div>As with the generations long since dead</div><div> The fire and brimstone of the status quo</div><div> Wakes him up from the safety of his bed</div><div> And lightening frames him in the window</div><div><br /></div><div>And photographs him in its afterglow.</div><div> Tonight he feels his present and its past</div><div>As the summer storm also comes and goes.</div><div> Conclusions are foolish in a world so vast.</div><div><br /></div><div>For at the edges of his world and heart</div><div>Far past the farthest boundary of his grasp</div><div>Where ideas cause worlds to come apart</div><div> He lives in this place that will not last.</div><div><br /></div><div>He loves his life more than he can explain </div><div>And leaves the window open to hear the rain.</div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /></div></div>FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-91005631823098044702022-01-02T15:57:00.002-08:002022-01-02T16:23:04.798-08:00<p> There will be a 2022 Robert Frost Poetry Contest!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Submission mode and contents:</p><p><br /></p><p> ----Fee: none....nothing to pay! </p><p> Only two poems in one email per person allowed though.</p><p><br /></p><p> -----via email only, poems as text inside the email, no attachments</p><p> (those without an email address, find someone with email to submit via)</p><p><br /></p><p> -----in the email: </p><p><br /></p><p> ---send it (not a reply, a fresh email) to: rffpoetrycontest@gmail.com</p><p><br /></p><p> -----title: Frost-2022-submission</p><p><br /></p><p> -----in the body: your name, email address, mailing address</p><p><br /></p><p> -----and then: </p><p> --two poems maximum per person, </p><p> ---seperated from each other by a few spaces, </p><p> ---50 lines maximum each</p><p><br /></p><p> We are simply looking for poems that are compelling to a wide</p><p> variety of people, that are memorable and affecting. </p><p><br /></p><p> There is no specific style preferred, just some richness of flavor,</p><p> and a limit of 50 normal-width (or narrower) lines. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Timing:</p><p><br /></p><p> ----open to submissions from January 1st, 2022 </p><p> through March 31st//midnight, 2022 </p><p><br /></p><p> ----decisions made and posted by May 15th, 2022</p><p> monitor progress and results at: robertfrostcontest.blogspot.com</p><p><br /></p><p> ----1st prize: $500</p><p> ----all of the top ten will be mentioned and may be posted at the blog</p><p> ---ceremonies are TBD</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-90331745246906824752020-03-22T17:24:00.001-07:002020-03-22T17:24:36.895-07:00----2020 Robert Frost Poetry Contest: poems----<br />
<br />
Here are the awesome machines of thought:<br />
<br />
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<br />
-----Paulette L Turco:<br />
( the #1 poem )<br />
Singer<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
The last time mother closed her sewing machine,<br />
she’d sewn my sister’s gown of silk and lace,<br />
a veil with pearls, fulfilling her own wish.<br />
The house, now her own space, would have no hum.<br />
She’d reached the private goal she’d set herself:<br />
to dress each daughter till her wedding day…<br />
<br />
plus bridesmaids’ gowns and her own dress that day.<br />
She’d learned how fabrics stressed her one machine<br />
and oiled it well; used threads she chose herself.<br />
She learned the slip of silk, the weave of lace,<br />
learned to guide her Singer, feel its hum—<br />
with yards and yards of fabric toward her wish<br />
<br />
of daughters dressed by her—beyond her wish<br />
when she took her vows on her wedding day.<br />
While her love served in Normandy, she’d hum<br />
soft tunes of his return—no sewing machine.<br />
Her trousseau was of borrowed silk and lace.<br />
Her groom gave her a Singer. She’d teach herself.<br />
<br />
She made her first dress simply, for herself—<br />
an A-line shift in navy blue. Her wish<br />
for Christmas velvet, Easter’s hand-made lace,<br />
came first in trimmings for each holiday.<br />
As we arrived, she cherished her machine;<br />
from birth, we breathed in rhythm with its hum.<br />
<br />
She’d set the bobbin, press the footplate, hum<br />
a favorite tune, and fit each dress herself<br />
in pastels, flowered prints, as her machine<br />
sewed ribbons, pleats—yes, every daughter’s wish<br />
for birthdays, dances, gowns for Spring prom day—<br />
velvet, chiffon, rayon, linen, lace.<br />
<br />
All sewing done, she stored away her lace—<br />
knit baby blankets. Soon lost names, used hums<br />
for words in lullabies, forgetting midday<br />
shopping trips and losing sense of self,<br />
what daughters said, the clothes she’d made—her wish<br />
undone, instead confusion: what machine,<br />
<br />
what meal, what day, what daughter. What is lace? <br />
Our photos proved how her machine did hum; <br />
our wish, her awe— “I stitched these gowns myself?”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
-----Paulette L Turco:<br />
<br />
Annulment<br />
Holy Family Sunday—1985<br />
<br />
We sit beside each other in the pew,<br />
unprepared for what this priest will preach.<br />
Who will be the focus of his reach?<br />
He’s garbed in white. What will he choose to do?<br />
<br />
He knows about my sister’s recent woes—<br />
her overdose of Ambien and how<br />
her husband said, “I’m gay” that day. His vow<br />
to her a lie, she feels eclipsed. He chose—<br />
<br />
he loves his partner, loves his kids. Misled,<br />
years in his bed, she’s borne two sons. And now<br />
she prays the Church tribunal grants somehow<br />
that, in the eyes of God, she never wed.<br />
<br />
The priest invites parishioners to “Transcend<br />
all shadows in your family. Pray. Amend.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----Lucy Ricciardi:<br />
<br />
MORNING <br />
<br />
This day begins slowly on the porch.<br />
Across the creek a lone roofer taps out<br />
a rhythm on his shingles, the swans<br />
patrol their waters anyway. Lop-sided<br />
geraniums nod in a stupor, scent of rosa<br />
rugosa slips past the screen door,<br />
and a breeze that is not really a breeze<br />
weaves us together even though you<br />
are going, or perhaps you have already<br />
left. What we have is all we will have. <br />
Give yourself to the morning, the swans<br />
will regroup, aware of upright paddlers<br />
balanced on their boards as they glide<br />
like lithe Egyptians flattened on a frieze. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
-------Simon Peter Eggertsen:<br />
<br />
Elephants at the Beach<br />
<br />
Near the coast just short of Zinjibar,<br />
this and every morning, the sand waits<br />
to sneak across to the shore on the breeze<br />
<br />
a few grains at a time, like small, anxious children<br />
longing for a playful day at the beach<br />
without their parents’ permission.<br />
<br />
At night, when the wind changes its mind,<br />
the grains will scurry back home to the other side,<br />
wait for the dawn, for another morning run. <br />
<br />
The shifting sands, free of their hourglass,<br />
keep their own day time, their own night time<br />
on either side of the brazen, warming sun.<br />
<br />
Further along the highway, dunes,<br />
the shape and size of fallen elephants,<br />
begin in earnest, lie on their sides,<br />
<br />
ribbed spines sagging, trying to touch the ground. <br />
The beasts cannot move without a helping hand,<br />
without a nudge from the insistent sea breeze.<br />
<br />
Last year the rogue elephant dunes squatted<br />
on the other side, threatened to trample<br />
the rustic fishers’ village near the shore—<br />
<br />
a mish mash of drift and plywood and tin,<br />
imagined homes: ‘ramshackled’,<br />
the perfect word for them to speak.<br />
<br />
Mushkeda. So it may be, the people say.<br />
<br />
-- Zinjibar, Yemen, May 1997<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
------John Struloeff:<br />
<br />
Home<br />
<br />
It’s been too many hours on the road.<br />
Your hands are numb on the wheel<br />
as you reach the top of the forested hill<br />
above home. Not the home you return to<br />
after work each day, a thousand miles<br />
from here, but your mother’s home,<br />
the home that still has the bed you<br />
slept in as a child. It’s night, but the moon<br />
alights the valley, the dark velvet contour<br />
of treed hills visible for miles. You can see<br />
how the rain has shaped this place, smoothed<br />
the sharp ridges, carried grit and stick<br />
to the valley bottom where the dark murk<br />
slides to the open ocean. This place has taken<br />
away so many you remember – your father,<br />
your best friends, your childhood teachers –<br />
and it’s taken your childhood itself.<br />
What is to be done but look in strange wonder<br />
at this beautiful, painful part of the world?<br />
Yet you drive down the winding road,<br />
your tires hissing on the slick blacktop,<br />
windshield wipers pushing away the mist<br />
so you can see anew each curve, each<br />
treeline, the wet signs, the flashing yellow<br />
light, and the long final corridor of trees<br />
before you turn and wend slowly to your old drive.<br />
You stop in front of the garage and see<br />
the silhouette of your mother rise slowly<br />
from her chair. She will greet you, feeble<br />
and smiling, as you open the door.<br />
I’m home, you say, and even with all the things<br />
that have been lost and all the ways that<br />
this is no longer your home, it still<br />
is, and your mother is here – and has been<br />
here for years – waiting to hold her boy<br />
one last time before this place, after thirty-five<br />
years, is taken from both of you.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
---Colleen Wells<br />
<br />
“The Hawk”<br />
<br />
In a neighbor’s yard, planted on the branch of an Oak tree, the hawk worked over<br />
its lifeless prey, busy as a chicken scratching in the dirt for a bug.<br />
<br />
We stopped walking, took it in. My husband was entranced with it all.<br />
“It looks like he got a mole,” he said with satisfaction.<br />
He hates the moles in our yard;<br />
we’ve argued more than once about his wish to eradicate them with lethal means.<br />
<br />
Just then the giant bird grabbed up the flaccid rodent, clutched it in its talons,<br />
then swooped, black wings flapping like a magician waving his cape.<br />
He landed in another nearby tree,<br />
to feast unfettered by us,<br />
is my guess.<br />
<br />
We took a few steps, admiring him again.<br />
“I don’t really want to watch this.” I said.<br />
My husband commented the hawk was about the same size as our Jack Russell.<br />
“He can’t be that big,” I disagreed.<br />
“Can’t you see Kramer up in the tree? At that far away, he’d look the same.”<br />
<br />
I thought to myself, Maybe without his four legs,<br />
maybe just his head and chest would equal the size of the hawk.<br />
But I agreed with my husband.<br />
<br />
I looked up at the killer who held me in its vacant amber eyes<br />
for a powerful split second.<br />
<br />
“Pretty Bird. You are a pretty bird,” I said,<br />
unable to stop myself from saying it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----Jane Blanchard:<br />
<br />
Near the End of Ocean Boulevard<br />
Saint Simon’s Island<br />
<br />
The county’s latest bulwark has begun<br />
to fail already—maybe only weeks<br />
since normal traffic was allowed back on<br />
this busy stretch of road. Saltwater seeps,<br />
then undermines concrete too easily.<br />
No engineer has figured out a way<br />
to stop erosion here. Predictably<br />
tides entering and leaving every day<br />
will do their damage. Nature takes care of<br />
its own—the egrets, herons, ibises,<br />
marsh hens, and clapper rails which perch above<br />
stiff grass or pluff mud after meals. What is<br />
a human being in this habitat?<br />
A passerby who gets a glance, if that.<br />
<br />
<br />
----FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-90845416567507621132020-03-04T12:30:00.000-08:002020-03-10T08:20:07.441-07:00----March 2020 Poetry events in/near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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-----MONDAY, March 2nd, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
<br />
-----FIRST FRIDAY OPEN MIC March 6th,2020<br />
ReachArts Clubhouse (basement gallery, r. side of the bldng)<br />
89 Burrill Street in Swampscott, MA, 7:00 pm<br />
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-----Pop-Up Poetry<br />
#1 Saturday March 7 at 2pm – Bulger Veterinary Hospital<br />
Rte.114, N.Andover...a little So. of Lawrence High School<br />
Suggested Theme: Pets, Companionship, Love<br />
<br />
-----SUN, March 8th, 1pm: Merrimac Mic.<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
<br />
-----TUE, March 10th, 7pm Frost Hoot, <br />
Feature: Andover High School... then, the open mic<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
<br />
----Wednesday, March 11.<br />
Walnut St. Cafe: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">157 Walnut St, Lynn, MA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br />
7pm....feature Susan Demarest, then open mic<br />
<br />
There is an open Mic and sign-ups begin @7 - ish.<br />
--------March 14 2020 @ 3pm,<br />
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Zara Raab and Jodie Reyes</div>
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Powow River Poets Reading Series</div>
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Newburyport Public Library, 94 State St</div>
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------Pop-Up Poetry<br />
#2 Saturday March 14 at 2pm – Good Day Café, East Mill<br />
N.Andover. Suggested Theme: Food, Frappicinos, Friendship<br />
<br />
----SAT, March 21st, Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich, MA<br />
<br />
----Pop-Up Poetry<br />
#3 Sunday March 22,2pm – Goldenseal Apothecary,<br />
Main St. No.Andover..<br />
Suggested Theme: Health, Ice Cream, Nostalgia<br />
<br />
----Wed, Feb. 18th the new Fuerza!<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St,Lawrence MA<br />
6:00---7:30 PM<br />
<br />
---Tuesday, March 24th Tuesday4Poetry,<br />
Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover<br />
Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.<br />
<br />
-----Tuesday, March 24th at 6:00 PM,<br />
The Amesbury Poetry reading Series / Feature: Eve Linn <br />
Open mic and refreshments.<br />
Amesbury Senior Citizen Center, 68 Elm St., Amesbury, MA<br />
<br />
-----Pop-Up Poetry!<br />
#4 March 28th – 2pm -- Andover/North Andover YMCA<br />
Suggested Theme: Community, Sports, Family, Fun<br />
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Pop-Up Poetry!<br />
#5 Friday April 3 at 8pm – Bikram Yoga, East Mill<br />
Suggested Theme: Wellness, Strength, Community<br />
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#6 Tuesday April 21 at 7pm – Stevens Mem. Library, Main St.<br />
Pop-Up Poetry & National Poetry Month Celebration<br />
Theme: Massachusetts Poets Yesterday and Today<br />
<br />
<br />
RE: Pop-Up Poetry:<br />
People are invited to RSVP with their poems to Mark Bohrer, North Andover’s Poet Laureate.<br />
Mark will invite people to each business on the appointed day & time to read their poems.<br />
Kids are encouraged to take part! (with parent/guardians permission & presence as chaperone).<br />
contact: markjbohrer@gmail.com<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-8000596828962899152020-02-02T11:16:00.002-08:002020-02-17T07:19:16.256-08:00----February 2020 Poetry events in/near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
---check the lines after February for events later in the calendar-----<br />
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<br />
------(Haverhill River Bards are off until April 2020)------------<br />
<br />
-----MONDAY, February 2nd, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
<br />
<br />
-------SUN, February 9th, 1pm : Merrimac Mic.<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
<br />
-----FIRST FRIDAY OPEN MIC FEBRUARY 7,2020<br />
ReachArts Clubhouse (basement gallery, r. side of the bldng)<br />
89 Burrill Street in Swampscott, MA, 7:00 pm<br />
<br />
-----TUE, February 10th, 7pm<br />
Frost Hoot, Feature: all open mic, but you are encouraged to bring<br />
valentine / anti-valentine poetry to start things<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
<br />
-----Wed, Feb 12th at 7:30pm,<br />
The Arts and the Experience of Nature<br />
Features: David Davis, Janet MacFadyen, Stephen Schmidt<br />
Open mic follows<br />
Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center<br />
1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport<br />
<br />
----SAT, Feb. 15th Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich, MA<br />
<br />
----Wed, Feb. 19th the new Fuerza! at Lawrence Public Library<br />
51 Lawrence St, Lawrence MA<br />
6:00---7:30 PM<br />
<br />
---Tuesday, Feb 25th Tuesday4Poetry,<br />
Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover<br />
Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.<br />
<br />
------Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 pm,<br />
Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series<br />
Feature: Bill Coyle // refreshments, open mic.<br />
Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St., Amesbury<br />
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Poetry in Unexpected Places….</div>
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Pop-Up Poetry!</div>
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#1 Saturday March 7 at 2pm – Bulger Veterinary Hospital</div>
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Suggested Theme: Pets, Companionship, Love</div>
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#2 Saturday March 14 at 2pm – Good Day Café, East Mill</div>
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Suggested Theme: Food, Frappicinos, Friendship</div>
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#3 Sunday March 22 at 2pm – Goldenseal Apothecary, Main St.</div>
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Suggested Theme: Health, Ice Cream, Nostalgia</div>
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#4 March TBD (28th or 29th) – Andover/North Andover YMCA</div>
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Suggested Theme: Community, Sports, Family, Fun</div>
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#5 Friday April 3 at 8pm – Bikram Yoga, East Mill</div>
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Suggested Theme: Wellness, Strength, Community</div>
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#6 Tuesday April 21 at 7pm – Stevens Mem. Library, Main St.</div>
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Pop-Up Poetry & National Poetry Month Celebration</div>
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Theme: Massachusetts Poets Yesterday and Today</div>
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People are invited to RSVP with their poems to Mark Bohrer, North Andover’s Poet Laureate. </div>
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Mark will invite people to each business on the appointed day & time to read their poems.</div>
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Kids are encouraged to take part! (with parent/guardians permission & presence as chaperone).</div>
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contect: markjbohrer@gmail.com</div>
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FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-60570621161511622642020-01-05T16:29:00.001-08:002020-01-27T13:45:23.956-08:00----January 2020 Poetry events in/near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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------(Haverhill River Bards are off until April 2020)------------<br />
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-----MONDAY, January 6th, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
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-----SAT, Jan. 11: Powow River Poets, reading series<br />
Featured: Elizabeth Wolf & Anton Yakovlev<br />
Newburyport Public Library. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">94 State St, Newburyport, MA</span><br />
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-------SUN, January 12th, 1pm : Merrimac Mic.<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
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-----TUE, January 14th, 7pm<br />
Frost Hoot<br />
Feature: Grey Court Poets and then ... then the open mic<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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----SAT, Jan 18th Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich, MA<br />
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---Tuesday, January 28th Tuesday4Poetry,<br />
Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover<br />
Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.<br />
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---Tuesday, January 28th at 6:00 PM, </div>
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The Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series / Feature: Toni Treadway </div>
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Open mic and refreshments.</div>
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Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St., Amesbury</div>
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-40020691115775665642019-12-01T16:26:00.001-08:002019-12-02T12:20:18.235-08:00----December 2019 Poetry events in/near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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------Haverhill River Bards are off until April 2020------------<br />
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-----MONDAY December 2nd, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
(Cancleled due to the snow storm)<br />
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---Friday, Dec. 6th : Feature Bob Whelan, at Reach Arts,</div>
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89 Burrell Street, Swampscott, Doors open at 7 and</div>
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there's an open mic so please join me and bring some of your work.</div>
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-------SUN, December 8th, 1pm<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
It's Merrimac Mic.....at a new time.<br />
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-----TUE, Dec. 10th, 7pm<br />
Frost Hoot<br />
Feature: M.P. Carver !<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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----SAT, Dec. 21st, Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich<br />
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---Tuesday, Dec. 24th 4 Poetry November 26th***<br />
Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover<br />
Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.<br />
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FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-78306105443293240042019-11-01T10:19:00.002-07:002019-11-11T10:37:39.514-08:00----November 2019 Poetry events in/near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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------FRI, November 1st, 7pm: Haverhill River Bards<br />
Feature: Jim Knowles, with rap 'n'roll 'n' drama<br />
HC Media Studio 101, 2 Merrimac St, Haverhill<br />
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VIDEO! ---> <a href="http://haverhillcommunitytv.org/video/river-bards-poetry-series-open-mic-november-2019">RIVER_BARDS_JKNOWLES</a><br />
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----Fri, November 1st, 2019 at the 6:30 door 7pm start<br />
ReachArts Clubhouse (basement entrance on the r. of )<br />
at 89 Burrill Street in Swampscott, MA<br />
Feature: Beverly based musician/poet Melissa Varnavas’s<br />
husband Chris Terrell who played the Cabot Theater in Beverly.<br />
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-----MONDAY November 4th, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
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--------SUN, October November 10th, 1pm<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
It's Merrimac Mic.....at a new time.<br />
<br />
SOME VIDEO! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLO2CYEzyhE">rapping_with_emily_dickenson</a><br />
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-----TUE, November 12th, 7pm<br />
Frost Hoot<br />
Feature: Cody Kucker (then open mic)<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">----</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">SAT, NOV. 16th, Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">---Monday November 25th.....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> Mindful Poetry and Prose, // suggest. donation $5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> Caitlin Krause, Dewitt Henry, Tom Daley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> Merrimack Valley Center For Mindfulness, 1 water st, Haverhill</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">---Tuesday 4 Poetry November 26th***</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">----</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday, November 26 at 6:00 PM, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series</span><br />
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Feature: Dennis Daly // Open mic and refreshments.</div>
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Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St., Amesbury</div>
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Events nearby:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday, November 9 from 10:00 am -- to 4:00 pm, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ReachArts @ 89 Burrill Street in Swampscott is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">free arts fair called Made by 01907. ... handmade creations</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and, In the Fireplace Room on the 1st floor, a book, cd and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> swag table for local poets,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">--------------November 9th, 3pm ------------------</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newburyport Public Library, 94 State Street</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powow River Reading Series, feature:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrating Edna St Vincent Millay"</span><br />
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FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-24118558067987104302019-10-02T10:56:00.001-07:002019-10-20T10:31:05.614-07:00----October 2019 Poetry events in and near<br />
the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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------FRI, October 4th, 7pm: Haverhill River Bards<br />
Feature: JD Scrimgeour, poet/musician, was head of<br />
U.Mass Salem English Dept..<br />
HC Media Studio 101, 2 Merrimac St, Haverhill<br />
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----MON, October 7th, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
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-----TUE, October 8th, 7pm<br />
Frost Hoot !<br />
Feature: Lawrence Catholic Academy<br />
(then open mic)<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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<br />
-------Oct. 12 , 3pm<br />
Feature: David Mason & Cally Conan-Davies<br />
: Powow river Reading series,<br />
Newburyport Public Lib., 94 State Street<br />
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--------SUN, October 13th, 1pm<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
It's Merrimac Mic.....at a new time.<br />
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----SAT, Oct 19th, open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich<br />
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----Tuesday, October 22 at 6 PM, Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series</div>
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Feature: Ellie O'Leary // Open mic follows feature. Light refreshments.</div>
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Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main Street, Amesbury</div>
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---Tuesday 4 Poetry is on the 5th Tuesday this month, October 29th***<br />
Stevens Memorial Library 345 Main Street, North Andover<br />
Suggested theme:"Mothers and Fathers" (or anything else you have).<br />
Signup at 6:30 PM, We start at 7PM.<br />
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-----------EVERY WEEK / EVENTS NEARBY----------------<br />
<br />
The Common Sage<br />
Community Writing group open to all ages held at El Taller every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 7-8pm.<br />
275 Essex St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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Out on the North Shore:<br />
----First Fridays, 6:30(open) 7:00 pm(start)<br />
First Friday Open Mic, ReachArts Clubhouse<br />
(basement entrance on the right),<br />
89 Burrill Street in Swampscott, MA<br />
<br />
"Let's Have Words", every week, Wednesday,<br />
Lowell, 7-9pm at The Hearing Room,119 Chelmsford St.<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-3976395412680075682019-09-03T13:35:00.002-07:002019-09-05T08:00:30.030-07:00----September 2019 Poetry events in and near<br />
the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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------September 6th, 7pm: Haverhill River Bards<br />
Feature Isabell VanMerlin, MC of the Merrimac Mic<br />
HC Media Studio 101, 2 Merrimac St, Haverhill<br />
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--------September 8th, 1pm<br />
at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
It's Merrimac Mic.....at a new time.<br />
<br />
----Monday, September 9th, 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
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-----Tuesday, September 10th, 7pm<br />
Local Laureates as a feature:<br />
Mark Bohrer, current North Andover Laureate<br />
Gayle Heneey, former North Andover Laureate<br />
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier , Andover poet Laureate <br />
Plus: the open mic, of course..<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-----September 11, 2019, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> @ El Taller</span></div>
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Community Writing group open to all ages held at El Taller every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 7-8pm.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">275 Essex St, Lawrence, MA</span></div>
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-------Sept. 14, 3pm : Powow river Reading series,<br />
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell & Rhina P. Espaillat<br />
and shaort open mic..<br />
Newburyport Public Lib., 94 State Street<br />
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----Sept.21, open Mic at Zumi's, 6pm<br />
Zumi's 40 MARKET st. Ipswich<br />
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------TUESDAY Sept 24th, 6:30PM----------------<br />
Tuesday4Poetry; open mic<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">345 Main St, North Andover, MA</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">---Tuesday, September 24, 6 PM,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Feature: Jimmy Pappas : </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Open mic follows feature. Light refreshments.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main Street, Amesbury</span><br />
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-----------EVERY WEEK / EVENTS NEARBY----------------<br />
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Out on the North Shore:<br />
----Sept. 6th, 6:30(open) 7:00 pm(start)<br />
First Friday Open Mic, ReachArts Clubhouse<br />
(basement entrance on the right),<br />
89 Burrill Street in Swampscott, MA<br />
<br />
<br />
"Let's Have Words", every week, Wednesday,<br />
Lowell, 7-9pm at The Hearing Room,119 Chelmsford St.<br />
<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-49726699429218129362019-08-08T17:57:00.000-07:002019-08-22T06:46:10.158-07:00----August 2019 Poetry events ina nd near the All-Literation Nation---------<br />
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<br />
The Haverhill River Bards is starting up in September 2019..<br />
Isabell VnMerlin(sept), then JD Scrimgeour(oct), then Jim Knowles (Nov)<br />
will be featured, and the open mic, of course.. Stay tuned,.<br />
First Fridays, usually.. (with open mic).<br />
Isabell: Sept 6th, JD Scimgeour Oct.4th, Jim Knowles, Nov.1st<br />
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Coming right up:<br />
August 11th, from Noon to 2 pm, at the Merrimac Mass Public Library:<br />
It's Merrimac Mic.....at a new time.<br />
<br />
(Frost Hoots begin again the 2nd Tuesday of September at Cafe Azteca, Lawrence)<br />
<br />
<br />
The open Mic at Zumi's on the 3rd Saturday...at 6pm<br />
August 17th, 40 MARKET st. Ipswich<br />
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-----------TUESDAY August 27th, 6:30PM----------------<br />
Tuesday4Poetry; open mic<br />
...<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">the Stevens Estate at Osgood Hill again!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">...</span><span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">723 Osgood St, Northat 723 Andover, MA 01845</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry on the estate lawn...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: your GPS gadget/app may say you are at the address </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the middle of a patch of roadside weeds.. Just look for a fork east</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a bit south of there, and look for the sign for the Estate...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f6f7; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is "off Osgood St".....definitely not right on it...</span><br />
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-----------EVERY WEEK EVENTS NEARBY----------------<br />
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"Let's Have Words", every week, Wednesday,<br />
Lowell, 7-9pm at The Hearing Room,<br />
119 Chelmsford St.<br />
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Please send me other events....it's hard to find them with google....<br />
...too many older postings..FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-46855307528096745902019-06-30T17:50:00.002-07:002019-07-23T17:56:16.448-07:00----July 2019 poetry events in and near the All-Literation Nation-----------<br />
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Lainie Senechal sends this notice:<br />
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<b>Amesbury is Looking for Its Next Poet Laureate, </b></div>
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applications due Sept. 6th.</div>
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For requirements and application information visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amesburyculturalcouncil.org&source=gmail&ust=1564015506992000&usg=AFQjCNGbbeSAUUMX45iOePKufvf4CkGeXQ" href="http://amesburyculturalcouncil.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amesburyculturalcouncil.org</a>.</div>
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-----Monday, July 1st 7PM : Methuen Grey Courts workshop<br />
Nevins Library in Methuen. Check front desk for the room info.<br />
Please bring 10 copies of anything that you would like to read<br />
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------(NO Frost Hoot in July: coming back in September)<br />
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----Thursday July 18th 6:30-8 pm<br />
Elizabeth Wolf reads from & sells for<br />
MS charity benefit "Did You Know"<br />
Merrimac Public Library 86 W.Main St. Merrimac MA<br />
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--------------NEW TIME! NEW SUNDAY ...2nd Sundays at 1pm-----<br />
-----------July 14th, 2019, 1-3pm<br />
Merrimac Mic, Open Mic<br />
Merrimac Public Library 86 W.Main St. Merrimac MA<br />
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------July 20th, 6-8pm--------<br />
Poetry Open MIC at Zumi's<br />
(Expresso/Ice-Cream/Coffee/snacks)<br />
40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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-------July 23rd, 7-9 pm Tuesday4Poetry<br />
At the Stevens Estate..outdoors hopefully<br />
723 Osgood St, North Andover, MA<br />
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-----Thursday July 25th,<br />
2-4pm Visctorian tea at the Whittier House<br />
$20 for tea and fundraising<br />
<b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Wicker SF"; font-size: 14pt;">86 Friend St. in Amesbury, MA</span></b><br />
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-----Friday July 26, 7pm<br />
10 readers, Poets Who Tell The Truth<br />
Hall-Haskell House, 36 S Main St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-28174848119400394152019-06-03T06:28:00.000-07:002019-06-14T09:18:58.488-07:00----JUNE Events, All-literation Nation and nearby------------<br />
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-------MONDAY JUNE 3rd, 7pm--------------------<br />
, Nevins Library. 305 Broadway, Methuen MA<br />
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-------WEDNESDAY JUNE 5th 7pm--------------------<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Rockport Open Mic,.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "slate pro" , sans-serif , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Brackett's Ocean View Restaurant / Brothers Brew 25 Main Street Rockport </span></span><br />
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-----------------------Friday, June 7th, at 7:00PM:----------------<br />
Haverhill River Bards , feature :Paulette Demers Turco & open mic<br />
Battlegrounds Coffee , 39 Washington St. , Haverhill, Ma<br />
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-------TUESDAY JUNE 11th , 7pm-------------------<br />
Frost Hoot; Feature: Lawrence High School + open mic<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
......last of the summer: 3 months off after......<br />
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-------WED., June 12th, 7:30 pm--------------------------------<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joppa Flats Education Center, 1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, MA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">---Ed Meek -</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">his poems have been featured on NPR's Cognoscenti, WCAI's Poetry Sunday and The Boston Mayor's Poetry Program in City Hall. His recent poetry collection is </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Spy Pond.</i></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> He writes book reviews for </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The Arts Fuse.</i></span></span></div>
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-----<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">R. A. Whelan - is a poet, playwright and essayist who lives in Rockport, MA. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> In 2019 he organized the Rockport Poetry Festival. His poems intend to mirror </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">everyday events that reflect more universal themes.</span></span></div>
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---<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Bonnie Brady – will present her nature collages. </span></div>
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------------Thursday, June 13th, from 7:00-8:00 pm--------------------<br />
Zone 3 (267 Western Ave., Allston, MA 02134)<br />
.....as part of LA Live in Allston, MA, Pilar Quintana<br />
will be leading a group poetry reading of THE SPRING...<br />
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------SATURDAY JUNE 15thh, 6pm------------------------<br />
Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's Cafe, 6pm<br />
Zumi's , 40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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-------WEDNESDAY JUNE 19th , 6-8pm --------------<br />
Fuerza; open mic + street poetry<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA<br />
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at the Newburyport Public Library, 94 State St.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">POWOW RIVER POETS </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> READING BY POETS JOHN FOY & JOAN A.W. KIMBALL</span><br />
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-------SUNDAY JUNE 23rd, 10:30am-------------<br />
Merrimac Mic's next meeting .. big open mic.<br />
Merrimac Public Library, 86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
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-----------TUESDAY JUNE 25th, 7PM----------------<br />
Tuesday4Poetry; open mic<br />
Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main St, North Andover<br />
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Paulette Turco , who you may have seen at Powows/Merrimac Mic..<br />
will in the Lesley University MFA Reading Series.<br />
For event details, check out the link:<br />
https://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20190612/reading-series-to-be-held-at-lesley<br />
Paulette will be in the Thursday, June 27 4-5:30 session<br />
(this is in Cambridge)<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-58178158876587774462019-05-03T10:46:00.001-07:002019-05-18T09:37:28.031-07:00----MAY Events, All-literation Nation and nearby------------<br />
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-------SATURDAY MAY 4th , 12noon to 4:30 pm---------<br />
Lawrence Public Library , 51 Lawrence St, Lawrence, MA<br />
THE ALL-LITERATION NATION SPRING CELEBRATION<br />
This event is dedicated to the Frost Foundation<br />
executive director Jessica Nesbitt Sanchez, who passed away April 29th<br />
Noon to 1pm: dedication, Frost winning and runner-up poems will be read<br />
1pm to ~4:30 pm: round-robbin open mic<br />
---(one poem per round, no intros,<br />
go thorough the names over and over)<br />
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------MONDAY MAY 6th , 7pm--------------------<br />
Grey Court Poets: Meet, Read, and tweak: bring 10 copies<br />
Nevins Library. 305 Broadway, Methuen MA<br />
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-------TUESDAY MAY 14th , 7pm-------------------<br />
Frost Hoot; Feature: Remembering Jessica Sanchez, poems+stories<br />
+ open mic<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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-------WEDNESDAY MAY 15th , 6-8pm --------------<br />
Fuerza; open mic + youth + street poetry<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA<br />
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------SATURDAY MAY 18th, 6pm------------------------<br />
Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's Cafe, 6pm<br />
Zumi's , 40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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------SATURDAY MAY 18th, 7pm------------------------<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Community Coffeehouse and Open Mic</span><br />
sining/music/poetry ,,,,<br />
Flint Memorial Library<br />
147 Park St., North Reading Mass.<br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1.4em; text-transform: capitalize;">7 Park Street, North Reading, MA</span><br />
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------SATURDAY MAY 18th, 7pm------------------------<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: "google sans" , "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">featuring 4 Powow poets and Karen Kelsay, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: "google sans" , "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">publisher of Kelsay Books at Emma Andrews Library</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: "google sans" , "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">(in Newburyport)</span><br />
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-------SUNDAY MAY 19th, 10:30am-------------<br />
Merrimac .... big open mic!<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Merrimac OPublic Library, 86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Featured poet Muriel Angelil, followed by an open mic, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">at the Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St. </span><br />
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-----------TUESDAY MAY 28th, 7PM----------------<br />
Tuesday4Poetry; open mic<br />
Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main St, N.Andover<br />
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-66875099576387068342019-03-30T14:14:00.002-07:002019-05-04T15:05:18.647-07:00----APRIL 2019 Events, All-literation Nation and nearby------------<br />
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------MONDAY APRIL 1ST , 7pm--------------------<br />
Grey Court Poets: Meet, Read, and improve..: bring 10 copies<br />
Nevins Library. 305 Broadway, Methuen MA<br />
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-------THURSDAY APRIL 4th , 7pm-------------------<br />
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier , Andover Laureate<br />
Reading and Book Launch Celebration<br />
Memorial Hall Library, Andover MA<br />
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--------FRIDAY APRIL 5th , 7pm-----------------------<br />
Haverhill River Bards , Feature Alfred Nicol, and open mic<br />
Battlegrounds Coffee , 39 Washington St. Haverhill, MA<br />
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------TUESDAY APRIL 9th , 7pm--------------------------<br />
Frost Hoot; Feature: 2019 Frost Prize Winner,runners-up<br />
+ open mic, all types of poems and people<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA<br />
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-------WEDNESDAY APRIL 17th , 7pm (?)--------------<br />
Fuerza; open mic + youth + street poetry<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA<br />
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------SATURDAY APRIL 20th, 6pm------------------------<br />
Ipswich open Mic at Zumi's Cafe, 6pm<br />
Zumi's , 40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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----------SATURDAY, APRIL 202:00—3:30 PM---------<br />
Meeting Room, Tewksbury Public Library300 Chandler Street,<br />
poets include: Jon Bishop; Kevin Carey; Gayle Heney; and Pilar Quintana.<br />
Q&A and book signing to follow the event for those interested.<br />
Light refreshments will be provided.<br />
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-----------TUESDAY APRIL 23rd, 7PM----------------<br />
Tuesday4Poetry; open mic<br />
Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main St, N.Andover<br />
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-------TUESDAY APRIL 23rd , 7pm-------------------<br />
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier , Andover Laureate<br />
"...a poetry workshop for all levels–..."<br />
Memorial Hall Library, Andover MA<br />
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---------------SUNDAY APRIL 28th, during the day...<br />
Rockport Poetry Festival:<br />
See the facebook page:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/rockportpoetryfest/<br />
************** NOTE: Merrimac Mic participants are invited to<br />
"infiltrate" the Rockport Events instead of the usual Merrimac Mic!************<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;">SCHEDULE:</span><br />
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9-10am Breakfast at Brackett's Brothers Brew (25 MainStreet) where poets will be reading where we have our Rockport Poetry Open Mic<br />
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11:00am – 1:00pm at Spiran Hall (corner of School Street & Broadway) the "Dead Poets Society" which will be visits from a younger John Greenleaf Whittier, Emily Dickinson, a younger Robert Frost, and an older Anne Bradstreet... (in period costumes) presenting at approximately half hour intervals. A string quartet will perform during intermissions.<br />
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1:15pm at Rockport Public Library (corner of School Street & Broadway) Paperless Poetry Contest Award Ceremony. Winners presented Awards by Poet Laureates of Rockport and Gloucester then they read their poems.<br />
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2:15pm "Poet Laureates Present" Several poet Laureates from towns/cities in the region will read their work<br />
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3:15pm "End of the Line Poets" readings by poets from Rockport<br />
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4pm Festival Ekphrastic Verse Contest Award Ceremony held at Rockport Art Association and Museum (12 Main Street)<br />
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4:15pm "Rockport Poetry Open Mic" open for sign up by anyone from Cape Ann, the Northshore, and beyond! Rockport Public Library<br />
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6pm "You can Call Me Light" Film at Little Art Cinema (corner of School Street & Broadway) followed by music and readings from the musicians and poets in the film at the Festival Closing Reception<br />
Throughout the Day<br />
For folks just coming to town and unaware of the Festival and for those who want to just saunter along and experience the spoken word, we will have a map with sequential times and places posted for an “Unexpected Poetry Tour” with individual poets reading at various businesses.</div>
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--------Tuesday, April 30, 6:00 PM<br />
Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series, 149 Main Street<br />
Poet David Davis + open mic.<br />
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------------------NEWBURYPORT SPECIALS--------------------------<br />
=========Saturday April 27th, from 8:30am to 4:00pm<br />
Newburyport Literary Festival, with<br />
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A<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/a.m.juster" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A.M. Juster">.M. Juster</a>, A<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/antonyakovlev" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Anton Yakovlev">nton Yakovlev</a>, <a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/rhinaespaillat" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rhina Espaillat">Rhina Espaillat</a>, <a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/toni_treadway.1x5uu1ry" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Toni Treadway">Toni Treadway</a>,</h2>
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N<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/nausheeneusuf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nausheen Eusuf">ausheen Eusuf</a>, <a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/ned_balbo.1zf413uu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ned Balbo">Ned Balbo</a>,<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/mary_ann_corbett.1zf414fi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mary Ann Corbett">Mary Ann Corbett</a>,</div>
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D<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/daniel_hall.1zf41563" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Daniel Hall">aniel Hall</a>, <a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/sydney_lea.1zf416tl" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sydney Lea">Sydney Lea</a>, <a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/jose_edmundo.1zf4188q" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jose Edmundo Ocampo Reyes">Jose Edmundo Ocampo Reyes</a></div>
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and Ma<a href="https://mapoetryschedule.sched.com/speaker/mary_jo_salter.1zf41bb0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mary Jo Salter">ry Jo Salter</a></div>
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<b>Amesbury Celebrates Poetry Month with the following free events:</b></div>
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"Celebrating the Poetry of Stephen R. Wagner- Amesbury Poet Laureate" on Thursday, April 11, 7 PM at Amesbury Senior Center, 68 Elm St.</div>
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"Verses to Victuals" a reading of food-related poetry to benefit Our Neighbors' Table on Wednesday, April 17, 7 PM at Amesbury Senior Center, 68 Elm St. Features - Rhina Espaillat, Alfred Nicol, Harris Gardner, Lainie Senechal, Stephen Wagner</div>
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Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series, Tuesday, April 30, 6 PM. Featured poet David Davis, followed by an open mic, at the Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St.</div>
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FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-53491395731855862932019-03-18T10:02:00.001-07:002019-03-18T10:03:32.805-07:00I have been studying Robert Frost for<br />
an upcoming role in Rockport.<br />
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Here are some interesting samples of Frost on YouTube...<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qem3v0zvajQ">FROST_1952_interview</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qem3v0zvajQ">FROST_READS_HIS_POETRY</a> ..... seems a little yankee and a tad Alec Guiness<br />
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<a href="http://stopping_by_woods/">STOPPING_BY_WOODS</a> ... older, a bit more down-east from Vermont,,<br />
stretched consonants from Methuen years<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBw-OaOWddY">BIRCHES__</a> ....middle-old......less Yankee, more Burgess Meredith<br />
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<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLzGHgcSvSHgHkDDGwhKsLHvxdDdgLV">MENDING_WALL</a> ..... early older .... very sharp and quick.....<br />
very nice pace-changing and draaging dragging ends!<br />
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It's great to hear the timing.....<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-67892017661817266892019-03-13T05:35:00.002-07:002019-03-15T14:47:56.215-07:00<br />
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First Prize: <br />
"Caterpillar" Author: Arne Weingart , Chicago Ill.<br />
Runners-up:<br />
"I Plan On Haunting" Author: Lucy Ricciardi , Greenwich CT<br />
"Wild Man" Author: Arne Weingart , Chicago Ill<br />
"Loner" Author: Michael Poluzzi, Highland NY<br />
"Full Glow" Author: Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, Andover MA<br />
"Late Harvest" Author: Toni Treadway, Rowley MA<br />
"The Big Room" Author: Mark Bohrer, North Andover MA<br />
"Letter to Hayden:<br />
In the Afterlife" Author: George Drew, Poestenkill NY<br />
"The Suicide Returns<br />
To Leave A Note" Author: Arne Weingart , Chicago Ill<br />
"Uncle Eli" Author: Blanche Jenkins, Detroit MI<br />
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You may notice that the same author can appear multiple times.<br />
The scoring is blind and is based on each poem, not the poet.<br />
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Thanks to all submitters and readers!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> -----Mark Bohrer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The evening sky brightens outside, and draws light from my room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The dogs, impatient at my feet, want to move, let’s leave this tomb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">I laugh, is the workday through? Their leashes on, and mine, undone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">we step into the outer room, now the realm of the setting sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">It’s eventide, half summer, as we step into the gloaming,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">into that room with no ceiling, the three of us go roaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Into the warm quiet nightfall, we enter this swirling place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Leaving our home, my dogs take me on a trip through time and space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The fading light is stealing, background radiation, fleeing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">new stars and planets are appearing, pearls in a pink champagne sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">As the swirling sky darkens, what’s left still ignites my brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">It leaves me with this feeling, our familiar world is strange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">It looks as if I’m standing on the edge of an open field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">It looks like a man with two dogs – instead the infinite, revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">I feel the arrow of time, the sky aquiver with twilight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">My hand draws the bow of the Archer, his dart flies across the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">In this room, my hand can reach to the edge of space and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">From me to that star, I could skip a stone across this pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Can my spirit bear the lightness of The All within my reach?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Yet here I am, in the big room, dizzy, with dogs at my feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Overhead, there to the right, shines Vega, Mister Sagan’s star.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">He had a billion or two to share, but this one was the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Twenty-five light years, a short step away, Contact was the book,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">where Ms. Foster met her Dad, or an alien with a kindly look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">How can all this be so welcoming? It could squash me like a bug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">But it doesn’t seem so inclined – somehow it feels more like a hug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">A hadron glow still warms the sky, and the worlds around each star.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The radiation might be dangerous, but still, it warms my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">what appears to be a spear, we’re not sure.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">he and all his tribe will never recover from.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and the worst pathogen, a new alphabet<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">whereby his language will be parsed into<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I don’t believe he hasn’t seen or heard us.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I think he has a word for what we are,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">another word for what he now must do.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This is for your benefit, not mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I felt I left something unsaid at the end.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">maybe you’re one, whether I have regrets,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">whether, in those first few feet of fall, I had<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">second thoughts. I prefer to no longer speak<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">in metaphors. Nothing is like anything else<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">anymore. There was a railing, an edge,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">a leap, a drop, water hard as concrete, final<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">consequences. Life, I came to understand,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">is binary, not some accumulation<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">of missed opportunities and best<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">intentions, but a switch marked On or Off.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I chose Off, never having fully understood<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">the On position. Now I know everything<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">and nothing, which is what all the great mystics<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">used to brag about. I guess some still do,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">to ever smaller audiences. Still,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I don’t blame you for wanting to know what<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">might lie beyond or even in plain sight.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The answer, if I could give you one, which<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I can’t, might not even apply because<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">your afterward might be different from mine,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">not having exited by the same door.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">All I can tell you, which is still not much,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">is that we try to let bygones be bygones.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Think of it like a club where it’s considered<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">poor form to bring up bad luck or old money –<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">another metaphor – you’ll have to pardon me<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">the way I pardoned you, not that you were<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-52775519293321169112019-03-01T11:30:00.001-08:002019-03-09T04:06:04.034-08:00----March 2019 POETRY EVENTS IN THE All-Literation-Nation----------------<br />
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Grey Court Poets; Meet, Read, and tweak: bring 10 copies<br />
7pm, Monday, Mar.4th, 2019<br />
Nevins Library. 305 Broadway, Methuen MA<br />
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Frost Hoot; Feature: Andover High School<br />
+ open mic..all types of poems and people<br />
7pm, Mar. 12th, 2019<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA (tasty and authentic)<br />
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Fuerza; open mic + youth + street poetry<br />
6:30pm, Mar.20th, 2019<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA<br />
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Merrimac Mic, open mic on a Sunday<br />
10:30am, March.24th, 2019<br />
Merrimac Public Library, 86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
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Tuesday4Poetry; open mic in the round<br />
7pm, Mar.26th, 2019<br />
Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main St, N.Andover<br />
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Powow River Poets Reading Series<br />
3pm, Mar.9th, 2019<br />
Features: George Kalogeris & Jay Wickersham<br />
Brief open -mic.<br />
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Ipswich Poets Open Mic<br />
6pm, Mar.16th, 2019<br />
Zumi's Expresso/ice-cream/tea/treats<br />
40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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World Poetry Day Readings with 11 poets at Massasoit Community College<br />
“Connective Threads: Voices of Our Global Tapestry” featuring 11 poets, 11 languages/cultures.<br />
March 21st, 6-8 pm Buckley Performing Arts Center, Large Theatre<br />
Massasoit Community College, Brockton Campus<br />
For more information: https://library.massasoit.edu/worldpoetryday/information<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">The Making of a Chapbook</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Saturdays, March 23rd & 30th (2-Day), 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.</span><br />
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Amesbury celebrates National Poetry Month throughout the month of April. The first event is a poetry trivia night, Thursday, April 4, 7 PM at Barewolf Brewing, 12 Oakland St. For a complete list of Amesbury's Poetry Month events visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amesburyculturalcouncil.org/poetrymonth&source=gmail&ust=1551736815473000&usg=AFQjCNE_4uY5e3w5VixO8Bjkl5C0XRgB0A" href="http://amesburyculturalcouncil.org/poetrymonth" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amesburyculturalcouncil.org/<wbr></wbr>poetrymonth</a>.</div>
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-38124195575390844312019-02-27T09:12:00.002-08:002019-02-27T09:12:30.850-08:00FROST CONTEST ENTERS READING PHASE<br />
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<br />
Dear Participants:<br />
<br />
Thank you all for your poems! There are twice as many this second year of the<br />
contest rebirth. Envelopes came in from local places and all over the country.<br />
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<br />
Thanks again all of you and hope to see you in future events and competitions.<br />
<br />
Stay tuned for announcements at robertfrostcontest.blogspot.com<br />
and at frostnewsline.blogspot.com <br />
Winner/runners-up should be announced by about the start of April 2019.<br />
<br />
Every poem will be read at least two and as many as 5 (for the top ten) times.<br />
On the way to widely-memorable poems, it is important to see different people<br />
agree in their appreciation. <br />
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<br />
----The Robert Frost Foundation Board (In the Lawrence Mass Public Library)FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-57708839111084243842019-02-02T07:34:00.002-08:002019-03-01T11:29:49.069-08:00----Feb.2019 POETRY EVENTS IN THE All-Literation-Nation----------------<br />
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<br />
Grey Court Poets; Meet, Read, and tweak: bring 10 copies<br />
7pm, Monday, Feb.4th, 2019<br />
Nevins Library. 305 Broadway, Methuen MA<br />
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Frost Hoot; Feature + open mic..all types of poems and people<br />
7pm, Feb. 12th, 2019<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common St, Lawrence, MA (tasty and authentic)<br />
---postmark deadline for Frost Contest is Feb.15th! --------------------<br />
see: https://robertfrostcontest.blogspot.com/<br />
Feb is "VALENTINE/ANTI-VALENTINE" all-open-mic feature,<br />
...and any other poetry you may care to bring..<br />
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Fuerza; open mic + youth + street poetry<br />
6:30pm, Feb.20th, 2019<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA<br />
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Merrimac Mic, open mic on a Sunday<br />
10:30am, Feb.24th, 2019<br />
Merrimac Public Library, 86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
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Tuesday4Poetry; open mic in the round<br />
7pm, Feb.26th, 2019<br />
Stevens Memorial Library, 345 Main St, N.Andover<br />
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-------------------------Nearby events-------------------------<br />
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Ipswich Poets Open Mic<br />
6pm, Feb.16th, 2019<br />
Zumi's Expresso/ice-cream/tea/treats<br />
40 Market St, Ipswich, MA<br />
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-17975360918271698932019-01-05T08:57:00.002-08:002019-01-24T21:19:04.860-08:00---January 2019 Merrimac Valley poetry, All-Literation Nation and nearby----<br />
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<br />
Kicking off January,<br />
The usual 1st-Monday meeting of the Methuen Grey Court Poets<br />
will be cancelled, but the next night, Tuesday, January 8th, 2019, 7pm,<br />
at Cafe Azteca in Lawrence Mass, Lawrence MA)Common St<br />
The Grey Court Poets will be the feature at the Frost Hoot.<br />
Open Mic to follow.<br />
You can order tasty foods before and throughout, from Cafe Azteca.<br />
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<br />
No Haverhill River Bards....they start with April.<br />
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<br />
On January 16th, 2019, at the Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence MA),<br />
there might be the Open Mic event "FUERZA!", at 6pm...<br />
come to read, or listen to street/youth/other poetry...<br />
<br />
JAN 19th<br />
(Just outside the All-Literation Nation)<br />
At Zumi's Expresso/Coffee/treats<br />
40 Market Street, Ipswich, MA,<br />
there will likely be a poetry open mic, at 6pm<br />
(awaiting confirmation)<br />
<br />
<b>Nearby: <span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">January 12 : Matt W. Miller & Kyle Potvin</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> Powow River Poets Reading series...</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> Saturday at 3pm, at the Newburyport Public Library.</b></span><br />
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Tuesday4Poetry is an open mic at<br />
the N.Andover Public Library, Jan.22, 2019, 7pm<br />
<br />
Merrimac Mic.... Open Mic at the Merrimac, MA Public Library,<br />
January 27th at 10:30am<br />
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<br />
A reminder:<br />
Postmark deadline for the Robert Frost Poetry Prize<br />
is Feb.15, 2019<br />
See guidelines at : https://robertfrostcontest.blogspot.com/<br />
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356v inl addr<br />
<a href="https://frostnewsline.blogspot.com/2017/12/another-lawrence-open-mic-fuerza-mixed.html">356_practice</a>:<br />
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send corrections and additions you'd<br />
like to make to: frostnewsline@gmail.com<br />
<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-2251369873444204672018-12-02T21:48:00.004-08:002018-12-02T21:48:33.465-08:00---Merrimac Valley poetry, All-Literation Nation and nearby----<br />
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Dec.3rd, 7pm, Methuen Public Library: Grey Court Poets<br />
(reading/tune-up group: bring 10 copies of your poem)<br />
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Dec.7th, 7pm , Battlegrounds Coffee, Haverhill MA: Haverhill River Bards<br />
Feature: Mary Buchinger, and open mic<br />
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Dec. 11th, 7pm, Cafe Azteca, Lawrence MA: Frost Hoot<br />
Feature: Dariana Guerrrero , and open mic<br />
Published poet and English teacher at Philips Academy, Andover, MA<br />
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Dec.16th, 10:30am, Merrimac(MA) Public Library, Merrimac Mic<br />
(open mic)<br />
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Dec.19th, 6pm, Lawence Public Library, Fuerza!<br />
(open mic, w/street beats)<br />
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-----(not confirmed in Dec)----- 7pm, No.Andover Public Library (Stevens Memorial), Tuesday4Poetry<br />
(open mic)<br />
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Dec. 15th, 6pm, Zumi's Expresso/Cafe, Ipswich, MA<br />
(open mic)<br />
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FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-73832134201129192672018-11-01T21:43:00.000-07:002018-11-14T12:02:43.336-08:00---Merrimac Valley poetry, All-Literation Nation and nearby----<br />
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Nov. 2nd, 7pm , Battlegrounds Coffee, Haverhill MA: Haverhill River Bards<br />
(feature Charles Coe , and open mic)<br />
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Nov. 5th, 7pm, Methuen Public Library: Grey Court Poets<br />
(reading/tune-up group: bring 10 copies of your poem)<br />
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Nov. 13th, 7pm, Cafe Azteca, Lawrence MA: Frost Hoot<br />
( Feature: Jennifer Martelli , and open mic )<br />
A fascinating interview with Jennifer: <a href="https://therumpus.net/2016/12/the-rumpus-interview-with-jennifer-martelli/">RUMPUS_INTERVIEW</a><br />
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Nov.18th, 10:30am, Merrimac(MA) Public Library, Merrimac Mic<br />
(open mic)<br />
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Nov. 21st, 6pm, Lawence Public Library, Fuerza!<br />
(open mic, w/street beats)<br />
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Nov.27th, 7pm, No.Andover Public Library (Stevens Memorial), Tuesday4Poetry<br />
(open mic)<br />
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For more activities, check out the Merrimac Mic blog!<br />
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<a href="http://merrimacmic.blogspot.com/">MERRIMAC_MIC_BLOG</a><br />
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Like this blog, it is also easy to see on your smartphone<br />
and requires no sign-ups or downloads or upgrades....<br />
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And Nearby:<br />
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Nov.10th, 3pm, Newburyport Public Library: Powow Poets, Celebrating X.J. Kennedy<br />
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Nov. 17th, 6pm, Zumi's Expresso/Cafe, Ipswich, MA<br />
(open mic)<br />
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Nov.27th, Amesbury Public Library, 6:00-7:30 pm <br />
(feature Michael Casey., and Open Mic)<br />
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-----------------Rants, Raves and Features!-------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
Elizabeth Wolf (the Rattle award-winning gatekeeper at Merrimac Mic)<br />
is waxing enthusiastic abou Chris Warner's poetry workshop,<br />
first Saturday of each month, 12 noon, 1 Water St., Haverhill,<br />
(the Center For Mindfulness).... in the River's Edge Building<br />
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<br />
Gayle Heney has Produced a "No Gas Poetry" video<br />
for local cable, and it is available on YouTube as well!:<br />
To Wit:<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/9NWprF0tIzk">CLICK_FOR_NO_GAS_POETRY!</a><br />
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--------------------To Fall-------------------------------------------<br />
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it's fall again:<br />
don't miss this change, the show<br />
the black and white is yet to be<br />
but what was green before<br />
must go<br />
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...so<br />
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go now, and walk beneath the cobalt skies<br />
...hear winds among<br />
the husks and leaves that rush and sigh<br />
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breath in the pumpkin-smell<br />
from this year's ground<br />
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the grace of bark and snow<br />
comes soon, that sleek<br />
and cushioned sound<br />
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----JK, 2018<br />
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-45516902367720360772018-09-29T06:34:00.002-07:002018-10-16T08:29:08.012-07:00-----IN/NEAR THE ALL-LITERATION NATION, OCT.2018--------<br />
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GREY COURT POETS : October 1, 2018 , 7PM,<br />
Nevins Library, 305 Broadway, Methuen MA 01844<br />
Bring 12 copies of your poem for reading and review<br />
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HAVERHILL RIVER BARDS: October 5 , 7pm<br />
Battle Grounds Coffee , 39 Washington St, Haverhill, MA<br />
No feature: ALL OPEN MIC<br />
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---FROST POETRY HOOT: October 9, 2018, 7pm<br />
Cafe Azteca, 180 Common Street, Lawrence, MA<br />
FEATURE: Kendra Mack , followed by open mic<br />
-----NOTE! The contest is open! Ceck it out at:<br />
https://robertfrostcontest.blogspot.com/<br />
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----Fuerza! 10/17/2018 , about 6pm-8:30<br />
Lawrence Public Library<br />
All open mic, youth and adult,: come and speak, or listen and enjoy<br />
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---TUESDAY4POETRY: October 23, 2018, 7pm<br />
Stevens Mem.Lib. 345 Main St, North Andover, MA<br />
All Open Mic<br />
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---Frost Community Read, October 26, 2018, 7pm<br />
Lawrence Public Library, 51 Lawrence St, Lawrence MA<br />
Many featured readers and performers<br />
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----MERRIMAC MIC: October 28, 2018, 10:30am<br />
Merrimac Public Lib., 86 W Main St, Merrimac, MA<br />
All Open Mic<br />
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-------------NEARBY EVENTS------------<br />
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October 4th, 2018, Andover Public Library, 6:30pm<br />
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier reads from<br />
"To The Left Of The Sun"......<br />
A reading, with cookies..<br />
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Powow River Poets Reading Series -----SKIPS OCTOBER----<br />
Newburyport Pub. Lib., 94 State St, Newburyport <br />
Readings with short open mic.<br />
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POETRY AT Zumi's: October 20, 2018, 6 pm<br />
Zumi's Espresso, 40 Market Street, Ipswich, MA<br />
All Open Mic<br />
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October 25th, 2018 Andover Public Library, 7::00pm<br />
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier: poetry workshop<br />
The Activity Room<br />
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AMESBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY POETRY SERIES, OCTOBER 30</div>
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The poetry series and open mic at the Amesbury Public Library</div>
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Tuesday, October 30 from 6-7:30 PM. </div>
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Feature: Bangladesh Poet, Nausheen Eusuf.<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial;"> plus open mic.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Amesbury Public Library, 149 Main St.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> For more information: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amesburylibrary.org&source=gmail&ust=1539789766138000&usg=AFQjCNFnrBJa16ESmhFbdPxPWmnYF8MSLg" href="http://amesburylibrary.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amesburylibrary.org</a> or 978-388-9771</span></span></span></span></div>
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<br />FrostNewslinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742725043938284595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843960732425936100.post-51685825324277431032018-08-29T17:47:00.002-07:002018-08-30T08:03:35.032-07:00-------------SEPTEMBER 2018 IS BUSY!----------------------------------<br />
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September 2018 Events in and near the All-Literation Nation<br />
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GREY COURT POETS (share and comment on poems)<br />
MONDAY , SEPT 10th , 7PM : METHUEN PUBLIC LIBRARY<br />
(1week later due to holiday)<br />
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Haverhill River Bards, at Battle Grounds Coffee...<br />
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FROST HOOT (Feature: Laureates Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, Mark Bohrer)<br />
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Tuesday , SEPT. 11th , 7pm , at Cafe Azteca in Lawrence<br />
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MERRIMAC MIC (all open mic , partcipation trinket/prize!)<br />
SUNDAY , Sept 23rd , 10:30am , MERRIMAC(MA) TOWN LIBRARY<br />
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(Not the usual: handover to New Poet Laureate...there is cake!)<br />
TUESDAY , Sept 25th , 7PM , NORTH ANDOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY<br />
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Sunday Sept.2nd ....<br />
<strong>Sunday, September 2nd</strong>, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM<br />
Winnekenni Castle, Castle Road at 347 Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill<br />
.....wild animal kingdom....pony rides....petting zoo...<br />
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POWOW RIVER READINGS (Features: J.Najarian , C.Chandler )<br />
SATURDAY Sept 8th, 3PM , NEWBURYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY<br />
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Walnut St Cafe, Lynn: Feat: Blane Hebel<br />
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Sept 12th, 7pm<br />
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Jabberwocky Bookstore, Newburyport, Paulette Turco Book Release<br />
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Sept 14th , 7--8:30 pm<br />
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IPSWICH , at ZUMI's COFFEE SHOP, IPSWICH, MA (open mic)<br />
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SAT, SEPT 15th, 2-5PM<br />
Sculpture at Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA<br />
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SAT , SEPT 15th , 6-8pm<br />
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"Soulmates": Art/Poetry collaborative book release,<br />
September 22, 2PM RSVP pilarandisabel@gmail.com<br />
Methuen Community TV Studio, 20 Aegean Dr, Unit 11 Methuen MA<br />
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(The weird > character is to stop events being smooshed together on some PCs..)<br />
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