Worcester County Poetry Association
Established 1971
Worcester County Poetry Association /1 Ekman Street, Worcester, MA 01607 / 508-797-4770 / wcpaboard@yahoo.com
FIRST MONDAY POETRY SERIES
First Monday Poetry Series
A collaborative project between First Unitarian Church & WCPA
7:30pm to 8:30pm
First Unitarian Church
Bancroft Room
90 Main Street
Worcester
October 5
Laura Jehn Menides
and
Carle A. Johnson
Laura Jehn Menides, a retired WPI professor of English, continues to write articles on modern poets--and to write poetry. She was a featured poet in Sahara: A Journal of Poetry, and has been published in The Worcester Review, Connecticut River Review, Anemone, Slugfest, Galley Sail Review, and many other journals. Currently she is
putting together a book of her poems, The Taming of the Girl-Child.
Carle A. Johnson hosts the monthly Worcester Barnes & Noble Bookstore Open Mic and hosts the Sugden Writers Workshop at the Richard Sugden Library in Spencer. He taught English at Worcester Technical High School for 25 years. Since 1989, he has been an editor of the Worcester County Poetry Association's The Worcester Review. He has had poems in the Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Concrete Wolf, Sahara, Shadowgraph, and The Worcester Review, which featured his poetry in its Spring-Summer issue 2001. In the spring of 2009 he received the International Reading Association Celebrate Literary Award from the Massachusetts Reading Association
for his work in promoting reading literacy in Central Massachusetts.
November 2
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney teaches English at the College of the Holy Cross. Her poems and translations have appeared in Diner, The Worcester Review, Friends Journal, and the Journal of Irish Literature, and have won several awards, including the National Academy of Poets Prize and First Prize in the annual contest of the Worcester County Poetry Association.
Following the reading, Beth answered questions about her "Mad Sweeney" poems. Here's a link she supplied for additional information about The Legend of Mad Sweeney.
First Monday Poetry will resume on January 4, 2010.
