NOTE: The Concord Poetry Center reading series is on hiatus while the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts is undergoing extensive renovations. Workshop is still open.

Workshops, Seminars and Classes

Building a Better Poem: Ongoing Workshop
Course Description & Registration
Fridays 10:00am--12:30pm (Enroll anytime for 4-week period)

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 2004-2009
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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.

Gallery of Major Events 2004-2009

Click on any one of these thumbnail photos.

NOTE: Use the Back button to return.

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.


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