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Mark your calendar for the following two exciting events featured in the Concord Festival of Authors.

A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM STAFFORD: ANOTHER WORLD INSTEAD Sunday, October 19th, 3:00 pm Join us to commemorate the life and work of this renowned activist poet with Fred Marchant and a panel of appreciators: Joan Houlihan, Steven Cramer, Susan Richmond, Mike Perrow & Jennifer Barber. "I stand and dream another world instead." wrote William Stafford in 1942 when he was serving in the Civilian Public Service program for conscientious objectors. He was a younger poet getting started in the same years that he was taking his first public stand against war. Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1942, edited by Fred Marchant and published by Graywolf Press, presents over 150 poems from that era, most of them never before published. A rare film of Stafford will also be shown.

THE POETS OF FINISHING LINE PRESS Sunday, November 2nd, 3:00 pm The Concord Poetry Center presents Charles W. Pratt, winner of the 2008 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. Pratt will read from his winning chapbook, Still Here, and will be joined by 10 other CPC members who have published with the press: Polly Brown, Helen Marie Casey, Bob Brooks, Julia Lisella, Maura MacNeil, Gary Metras, Kathy Nilsson, Suzanne Owens, Susan Edwards Richmond, bg Thurston Come celebrate these poets and this dynamic press.

 

FREE!

(Donations gratefully accepted at the door.)
Refreshments & conversations follow in the poetry room.

Sunday Afternoon Community Reading Series Presenting established and emerging poets affiliated with the Center and introducing poets from the greater Boston community. All readings take place on Sunday at 3:00 pm. Refreshments and conversation follow. Admission only at the door: $6.00 (students $3.00).
FALL SCHEDULE Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 pm Featured Poet Richard Hoffman and emerging poet Vera Kroms in collabration with COOL's (Cultural Organization of Lowell) LZ Nunn and Gigi Thibodeau. Sunday, November 16 at 3:00 pm Hosting readers from the the New England Poetry Club: F.D. Reeve and Club president, Diana Der-Hovanessian with emerging CPC poet Charles Phillips.
DOWNLOAD FLYER HERE: September 28 Reading
THE CONCORD POETRY CENTER'S LIGHT BRIGADE READS AT THE FIRST MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL Saturday, October 11th, 4-5 pm Boott Cotton Mills Museum 115 John Street Entrance Boott Events Center Lowell, MA The event is free. The Light Brigade is composed of Joan Kimball, Amy Woods, Barb Crane, Bob Clawson, and XJ Kennedy. It is so-named as explained by Joan Kimball: "We call ourselves the Light Brigade, because we read light poems for laughter and surprise." Check out the Massachusetts Poetry Festival web site for information on this and all events. The festival runs from Friday, October 11 through Saturday, October 12. GO OFF-THE-GRID! Want to read at the CPC? Create your own “Off-the-Grid” event! Download instructions & procedures HERE.
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. GOING PUBLIC: FINISHING AND PUBLISHING YOUR POEMS Instructors: Will Fertman and Jacob Bennett, Editors Course Description STARTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 BUILDING A BETTER POEM: WORKSHOP Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor Course Description STARTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 POETRY TUTORING FOR TEENS Instructor: Susan Edwards Richmond, Poet Course Description ONGOING THE DREAM SONGS Instructors: Mike Perrow and Jonathan Weinert Poets & Editors Course Description STARTS MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 BIRDS & POETRY: HOW THEY FLOCK TOGETHER Instructor: Christopher Jane Corkery Poet & Essayist, Instructor, Holy Cross College Course Description STARTS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

OFF-SITE CONFERENCES, FALL '08: NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS--for poets with a book-length manuscript:

Gallery of Major Events
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C.D.Wright & Forrest Gander Fall, 2007 America's foremost poetry couple doubled our pleasure.   St. Patrick's Day Gala Gathering Spring, 2007 Kennedy, Donnelly, Delanty, Kearney, Houlihan, Tobin, Casey & More.   Lucie Brock-Broido Came to Our Town Fall, 2006 Professor Brock-Broido showed us why she runs the show at Columbia.     Tribute to Jane Kenyon Spring, 2006 Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff loved Kenyon and her poetry, and we found out why.   An Evening of Great Poems Fall, 2005 Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart in a grand poetic conspiracy.   Dillon Bustin Sings Thoreau Summer, 2005 Dillon and his harmonic convergence of Thoreau, poetry, and song. To the Honor of Donald Justice Spring, 2005 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.

A SATURDAY NIGHT READING AT THE CPC (MANY THANKS TO DAVID OMAR WHITE) 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.

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