Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Our second season, “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. Join us each Thursday from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. It will be your port in a worldly storm.

This week’s poet will feature Holly Inglesias, author of three collections of poetry— Sleeping Things; Angles of Approach; and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World—as well as a critical work, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry. Her most recent publication is a collaborative chapbook, Myth America (Anhinga Press), co-written with Maureen Seaton, Carolina Hospital, and Nicole Hospital-Medina. Holly has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami, with a focus on archival and documentary poetry. Her current project is an intergenerational memoir in prose fragments with the working title Theories of Flight.

We are proud to announce Mass Poetry’s seventh annual Evening of Inspired Leaders, which brings together exceptional leaders from diverse fields to each read their favorite poem and reflect on its connection to their life and work. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now planning a hybrid event, which will take place on Thursday, November 18, 2021, from 7-8 PM online and live at GrubStreet’s new Center for Creative Writing in Boston’s Seaport.

At Evening of Inspired Leaders we come together for inspiration, for poetry that speaks to our hearts, to our spirits, and to this moment, in all its complexity.

Funds raised at Evening of Inspired Leaders will help Mass Poetry produce its dynamic roster of free and low-cost poetry programs for thousands of people, young and old, across Massachusetts.

Cervena Barva Press Zoom Reading Series featuring Dayna Leslie Hodges, Frannie Lindsay, & John L. Stanizzi. 

To RSVP and receive the Zoom link contact editor@cervenabarvapress.com

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the poetry chapbooks Teaching While Black and Dust & Ashes. His full-length collection, the Colored page, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications. MEH’s recent poetry and prose is appearing or forthcoming in Autofocus, The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry East, and Shenandoah. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.

Connie Norgren is the author of Tonight’s Quiet which won the 2014 Bright Hill Poetry Book Competition as well as the chapbooks Falling Again from Finishing Line Press and Same Boat from 5 Spice Press. She is co-author of the book To Genesis, along with Lois Adams, Barbara Elovic, and Patricia Markert – also from 5 Spice Press. In November 2020 she was featured on the Arts Express radio program on station WBAI, hosted by Jack Shalom and in its online magazine.

Contact hguran@aol.com for Zoom link.