WCPA Annual Poetry Contest:
The Frank O'Hara Prize

Congratulations
2011 Contest Winners
.
Worcester County Poetry Association / 1 Ekman Street, Worcester, MA 01607 / 508-797-4770 / wcpaboard@yahoo.com

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Established 1971
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Eleanor Vincelette performed Walt Whitman's "O Captain My Captain"
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Co-founder Mike True talked about the early years of WCPA. more news & photos
Elizabeth Bishop 1911-2011
Centenary Celebration

WCPA celebrates American Poet and Worcester native Elizabeth Bishop throughout 2011 with readings, lectures, music and special events.

Monday, October 22

Join us at
Fitchburg State University

Thomas Travisano
Bishop scholar and editor of
Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell



Go to the EB100 Exhibit
All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.
"The Bight"
From the WCPA Archive

We have 40 years of posters, broadsides, publications and photos in the archive, including this 1971 announcement for a Denise Levertov reading.

Please share your memories and photos with us!














Send submissions to
Diane Mulligan, WCPA 40th Anniversary Web Editor at

wcpa-40@gmail.com

Full Sumbission Details (PDF)

Watch for monthly updates starting in January 2011.

Personal reflections related to your involvement in the WCPA;

Recollections of events and activities you have participated in;

Photographs of events, venues, and poets;

We wecome submissions in prose and verse.
Bloomsday
The Worcester Ramble
A day-long celebration
of James Joyce's Ulysses

Photos have been posted!
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RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP

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Endangered
A collaboration between
WCPA & Preservation Worcester






Save the Worcester State Hospital
Clock Tower:
A Call to Poets


more details here
Coming up:


First Night Worcester

Saturday, December 31
4:00pm
Worcester Art Museum Cafe

Poetry for Kids
of all ages!



Monday, January 9 - Kristina England
First Monday Poetry Series - 7:30pm
First Unitarian Church
90 Main Street, Worcester

Thursday, January 12 - Jim Fay
Street Beat - 7:00pm
Vasa Hall (first floor)
1 Ekman Street, Worcester

Thursday, February 9 - Dan Lewis
Chapbook Release: "Tickets for the Broken Year"
Street Beat - 7:00pm
Vasa Hall (first floor)
1 Ekman Street, Worcester

Sunday, February 26 - WCPA Annual Meeting
Worcester Public Library - 2:00pm






2011 WCPA Poetry Contest: The Frank O'Hara Prize
Photos from the September 25 Winners' Reading

2011 Gregory Stockmal Reading, Assumption College
John Hodgens, Michael True, Carol Stockmal, David Thoreen