Lowell Poetry Network

Poetry on Stage

Featured Poet : Tom Daley

A Partnership Effort of the Chelmsford Public Library and the Lowell Poetry Network.
 

Performer and poet, Tom Daley will be present “Every Broom and Bridget—Emily Dickinson and Her Servants” on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:30 pm at The Chelmsford Public Library, Main Branch, 5 Boston Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824. 

All welcome — Free event.

Location: Chelmsford Public Library, 25 Boston Road, Chelmsford, MA

  For directions, go to the library’s website: http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/library_info/directions/index.html. Co-sponsored by the Lowell Poetry Network

In addition to his post at the Online School of Poetry (http://onlineschoolofpoetry.org/), Tom Daley serves on the tutorial faculty of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and has lectured on ekphrastic writing at Brown University.

Poetry Reading at 119 Gallery

119 Chelmsford Street, Lowell, MA

Thursday, November 19 from 7:00 -9:00 p.m.

$3 admission includes light refreshments.

Born in Lowell, Mark DeCarteret will be our featured reader for the November 119 Gallery reading. Mark is the current Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He has been a featured poet at many local and regional poetry events including the Portsmouth Poetry Hoot and Jazzmouth: The Seacoast Poetry and Jazz Festival.

A graduate of Emerson College, DeCarteret earned his MFA  ath the Univ. of New Hampshire in 1993. He currently serves on the faculty of the New Hampshire Institute for Art in Manchester, N.H.

Sam Cornish, Boston Poet Laureate describes DeCarteret as a “poet of considerable intellect” and having “the possibility of becoming a major American poet”.

Mark this one on your calendar and help us welcome Mark “back” to Lowell.

His books include:

Over Easy  (Minotaur Press, 1990);

The Great Apology (Oyster Press 2001)

(If This Is the) New World    (March Street Press, 2007)

Poetry on Stage

Saturday, October 31st

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.  FREE

Location: Chelmsford Public Library

25 Boston Road, Chelmsford, MA

Chelmsford Public Library and the Lowell Poetry  Network are pleased to bring Jack McCarthey back by popular demand. Jack has been described as a “poetry star” by the Boston Globe and Boston Phoenix.

“Jack McCarthy’s poems tap you on the shoulder. buy you a cup of coffee and start telling you a story,” says poet Hope Jordan.

McCarthy was a regular on the Boston slam and has performed on the national slam scene. His collections of published work include Say Goonight , Grace Notes (EM Press) and Actual Grace Notes (The Wordsmith Press).

Come hear Jack peform his poems on the 31st at the Chelmsford Public Library . All welcome. Free.

I am so excited to announce that Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue is on sale now with it’s fourth issue, with the theme of Conflict. Something that makes it even more exciting is that two Lowell poets grace its pages. The boundless energy and talent of Lowell has been in every issue, Mike Tousignant in the first issue, Ann Murphy in the second, and Jay Simmons of the Graduate School of Education in the third issue.

In the latest issue, wrapped in an exuberant, dark and almost ominous monkey-fied version of Picasso’s Guernica, Lowell is done doubly proud. with an extended feature on poet Anne Murphy and a poem by Leo Racicot, an LHS graduate and a long-time Lowell resident.

Anne’s work is classically beautiful, poignantly powerful and extremely accessible. While many of you know Anne, I hope you take the chance to read a bit more about her, as well as five of her poems.

Leo, on the other hand, is a bit of new comer to the Lowell Poetry scene. I am really excited to introduce his work to you all, and this poem of his that we published is astonishing, moving, layered and deep. Honestly, it is one of the best I’ve ever read. It is the type of work that changes one’s perspective on the world and moves on to read and reread it. I suspect that this is only the first of many of Leo’s poems that will be published by Shakespeare’s Monkeys.

http://www.shakespearesmonkeys.com to order a copy for $5+postage, or you can just email me for more info. Either way is great.