Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

The Worcester Senior Center Celebrates St. Patrick's Day and the Worcester County Poetry Association's 50th anniversary with a reading from Kerry Dancers, Curt Curtin's newest poetry collection. Curt, his wife, and fellow poets/friends will read selected poems. You'll meet Da, Ma, Aunt Nora and the rest of the family, dance a reel in Boston's Hibernian Hall, and "shake the hand of the man who shook the hand" of notorious Boston Mayor James Michael Curley. With lively fiddle by members of the New England Enrichment Foundation, you'll be dancing in your seat.

This will air on Worcester Cable Station, Channel 192 subsequently be available on YouTube. Initial air time is estimated; program will run for several days after initial airing.

Musicians from Worcester's Pakachoag Music School provide fiddle music to accompany Curt Curtin's reading of selected poems from Kerry Dancers. Though the collection focuses on Curt's Irish-American heritage, it is a more generic immigrant's tale dedicated to "immigrants from around the world who chased their dreams to the American shores".

This pre-recorded event will stream on YouTube.