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A Saturday Night Reading at The CPC (many thanks to the late David Omar White)

Upcoming Events

  • Sunday, August 8, 2010, 1-3pm

    Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, has invited the Concord Poetry Center to present a reading of poems inspired by birds in conjunction with their year-long celebration of feathered fauna, For the Birds. The reading will be held on Sunday, August 8, as part of the museum's Sundays at One series. Concord Poetry Center poets will read bird-related poems, their own or others.

    CPC members attend free. Come hear your fellow CPC poets read!

    Readers:

  • Sunday, October 31, 2010, 3pm

    Ellen Doré Watson and Jim Schley read in the Community Reading Series along with Ibbetson Press poets Doug Holder and Lawrence Kessenich. Reading begins at 3pm in the Dance Studio, second floor of Emerson Umbrella, 40 Stow Street, Concord, Mass. Refreshments, conversation and booksigning follows.

  • Sunday, November 7, 2010, 3pm

    Tom Daley performs "Every Broom and Bridget," a one-man play about Emily Dickinson and her Irish servants, as a benefit for the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, Mass.

Workshops, Seminars and Classes

For more information on courses, call the office at: 978-897-0054 or to register for a course, see its Course Description, below.

  • Building a Better Poem: Ongoing Workshop
    Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor
    Course Description
    Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pmStarts September 8, 2010
     
  • Haiku: It's More than 5-7-5: 2-Day Workshop
    Instructor: Deborah Finkelstein
    Course Description
    Saturday, October 2 and Saturday, October 9, 2010
     

Go Off-The-Grid!

Want to read at the CPC? Create your own “Off-the-Grid” event! Download instructions & procedures HERE.

OFF-SITE CONFERENCES

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

For poets with a book-length manuscript:



Gallery of Major Events
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C.D.Wright & Forrest Gander

America's foremost poetry couple doubled our pleasure.





St. Patrick's Day Gala Gathering

Kennedy, Donnelly, Delanty, Kearney, Houlihan, Tobin, Casey & More.





Lucie Brock-Broido Came to Our Town

Professor Brock-Broido showed us why she runs the show at Columbia.





Tribute to Jane Kenyon

Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff loved Kenyon and her poetry, and we found out why.





An Evening of Great Poems

Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart in a grand poetic conspiracy.





Dillon Bustin Sings Thoreau

Dillon and his harmonic convergence of Thoreau, poetry, and song.





To the Honor of Donald Justice

With Jorie Graham, Peter Sacks, Steven Cramer and more of the stars Justice helped to light.





Franz Wright Inaugurates the Center
Fall, 2004

Fresh Pulitzer Prize in hand, Franz wielded his spell-binding poems to dazzling effect.
It couldn't have been a better start.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council and from the Concord Cultural Council, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.


Emerson Photo

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40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742
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Concord Poetry Center
978-897-0054
joan@concordpoetry.org

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