Read the work of some of our Open Mic poets: Biz Zoc7, Mark, Elizabeth, Jerry, Marcia, Ronald, Tania, Maria, Carl, Stephen, sympetalous, William, Robin.
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Massachusetts Poets Read!
Massachusetts poets with new books in 2009 gave readings at the Second Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, Massachusetts. Watch the webcast at the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Central Library Poetry Writing Workshops
Maria Luisa Arroyo's popular poetry workshops have been scheduled through June, 2010. Dates include:
All workshops are from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Central Library's Community Room. Registration is required -- please sign-up by following the links above. For more details, please download our flyer.
About the workshop's facilitator: María Luisa Arroyo is a native of Springfield's North End and educated at Colby (B.A.), Tufts (M.A.) and Harvard (A.B.D.). She won a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant in poetry and first place in the Spanish-language division of the Library's 2006 Poetry Contest. In addition to being an award-winning poet, Arroyo is an educator, single parent, and currently, a GED instructor at a local non-profit organization. Her poems have been published in many journals including PALABRA: A Magazine for Chicano and Latino Literary Art , CALYX , and The Women's Times. The Bilingual Review/Press (AZ) published her first full-length volume of poems, Gathering Words/Recogiendo Palabras, last summer (2008).
Open Mic Series - Poetry in the Park
The 2009 Open Mic Series was a popular success. See the most recent Open Mic photos on the Library's Flickr account!
The 2009 Poetry in the Park season was supported in part by the "Write On, Springfield!" grant from the Springfield Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
No Open Mic is currently scheduled:
watch this page for announcements of new poetry programs
Questions? Contact Matthew Jaquith, Program & Training Librarian at 263-6828 x221, or mjaquith@springfieldlibrary.org
Springfield Library Slam footage on YouTube!
We had over 60 folks at the April 12, 2008 Slam, including almost 20 contestants. Check out the performances from our top 3 on YouTube! Thanks to Robin Coolbeth for the camerawork.
Shariff Butler
Daisy Pereira-Tosado
Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor
Slams were held at Western Mass. libraries throughout the months of April and May 2008. Winners from each slam competed in a GRAND FINALE POETRY SLAM at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst.
Winners from Springfield included: Shariff Butler (second overall) and Daisy Pereira-Tosado (fourth). Congratulations Shariff and Daisy!
Websites for poetry readers and writers, listed in the library's Directory of the Web.
Poetry Resources at the Springfield City Library - a finding aid to help you locate material at the library.
Poetry Publishing Workshop - notes from the June 2008 presentation by María Luisa Arroyo.
Publishing Panel - notes from the February 2008 event held at the Central Library.
Poetry-related filmlist of titles available throughout the C/WMars system.
Collections of Love Poetry at the Springfield City Library.
Poems by the winners of the library's 2006 Poetry Contest.
Poems by the winners of the library's 2008 Poetry Contest.
Local Resources, Events, and Links
Word in Westfield: Every Tuesday evening at 6:00, Teapot Gallery, 22 Elm Street (route 10/202). For more information email: lori@thepoetrynews.com
Starving for Art: Open Mic at Blue Fusion, 487 St. James Ave., Springfield. For upcoming events, visit www.brendaschild.com/starving_for_art
Spoken Word Greenfield: Open Mic the 3rd Tuesday of every month.
Lori Desrosier's Poetry News covers poetry events in the Pioneer Valley and Western MA as well as the larger Springfield/Worcester/Hartford area.
The Florence Poets' Society hosts monthly meetings (open to all poets), sponsors an annual contest and publishes the annual anthology Silkworm.
Drive-By Poets is a non-profit public poetry postering project in Northampton, Massachusetts. Anyone may submit poems for consideration
The Poetry Center at Smith College hosts literary events and supports poetry programs in the local community.
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst offers a variety of programs throughout the year.
Northampton's Forbes Library hosts a weekly Poetry Discussion Group (Mondays 7:00-8:45) and a monthly Poetry Reading Series.
UMass Amherst's MFA Program for Poets and Writers: Visiting Writers Series.
Author events at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley frequently include poetry readings.
María Luisa Arroyo - local poet and educator, and regular at the Springfield Library Open Mic events.
Latina Poet, website of Magdalena Gomez, local poet, playwright and arts educator.
The Shine! Online Journal of literature, poetry, art, and photography is always looking for submissions. Edited by local writer/teacher Pamela Tyree Griffin.
Amherst Writers and Artists offers workshops, retreats & personal writing services for writers across the US.
Patchwork Farm Retreat offers creative writing and yoga workshops at their mountainside home in western Massachusetts.
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