Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Our second season of "Online Poetry: The Refuge of Witnessing” will provide a weekly poetry sanctuary to hear moving words, deepen our exploration of their meaning, and connect with each other. Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. It will be your port in a worldly storm.

Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, most recently Field Light (Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward), and two chapbooks including best man (recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, New England Poetry Club.) Prizes include Finalist, 2017 Pablo Neruda Award, and first prize, the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Poetry Wales, The Mississippi Review, Southward, Stay Thirsty Poets, and Presence. A professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, he teaches Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics. Field Light, set in Glendale, Mass., weaves a poetic tapestry of Berkshire history.

Announcing the 2022 Michael True Memorial Reading featuring Jonathan Blake.

Thursday, February 17, 2022
Curtiss Performance Hall
Tsotsis Family Academic Center
Assumption University
500 Salisbury St.
Worcester, MA  01609

The reading will be free and open to the public, though public health metrics may require a change to that plan.

Download the flyer feature artwork by Julie Chlapowski alongside a poem by feature Jonathan Blake.