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Upcoming Events

  • Call for Poetry! Plein Air Poetry at Fruitlands Museum

    In conjunction with the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA, Concord Poetry Center founding member Susan Richmond introduces Plein Air Poetry, a site-specific juried poetry event on the museum grounds which will culminate in late spring 2012. Plein Air Poetry offers a unique opportunity for poets to draw inspiration from the Fruitlands landscape and participate in public readings and other museum programs. See the flyer below for complete details.

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    "Call for Poets" October 1, 2011


  • Poetry Reading/Open Mike, Sunday, October 30, 2011, 3pm
    CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER. NEW DATE TBA
    In conjunction with the annual Concord Festival of Authors:award-winning poet Teresa Cader will read with Charles Pratt followed by an open mike. Come early to sign up! Free.

    Teresa Cader is the author of three collections of poetry. Guests (1991) won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver) and The Journal Award in poetry from the Ohio State University Press. The Paper Wasp (1999) was published by Northwestern University Press; a sequence from it won the George Bogin Memorial Award. History of Hurricanes came out in 2009 and was selected as a “Must Read” book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and a finalist for the Sheila Motton Prize rom the New England Poetry Club.

    Cader has won fellowships and awards from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, AGNI, Harvard Review, Harvard Magazine, Ploughshares, FIELD, Perihelion, Southwest Review, The Legacy Project, Slate Magazine, and many other periodicals. She has taught at MIT, UMass-Boston, and Emerson College. She is currently MFA National Faculty in Creative Writing in Poetry at the Lesley University low-residency program.

    Charles W. Pratt, a former English teacher at the Phillips Exeter Academy, for 27 years owned and operated with his wife Joan a small apple orchard in southeastern New Hampshire. His first book of poems, In the Orchard, (with drawings by Arthur Balderacchi, Tidal Press), was selected as a Notable Book for 1986 by the American Library Association; his chapbook Still Here was winner of The Finishing Line Press Prize in poetry in 2008. From the Box Marked "Some Are Missing" (new and selected poems) appeared in 2010 as Volume I of the Hobblebush Books Granite State Poetry Series for "poets whose work has already received recognition but deserves to be more widely known."

    The Pratts have now turned their orchard over to new owners in the hope that it will continue longer than they do, and have returned to live in Exeter.

    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 & Registration
      Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pm (Enroll anytime for 4-week period)
       
    • BEGINS JANUARY 12, 2012.

      Go Off-The-Grid!

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

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      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.


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      Home of the Concord Poetry Center and the Emerson Umbrella For The Arts
      40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742
      978-897-0054
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      Concord Poetry Center
      978-897-0054
      joan@concordpoetry.org

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