Upcoming Events

Friday, October 29, 2010, 7 pm

Concord Poetry Center poets Joan Houlihan, Cammy Thomas, and Daniel Tobin read from their latest work. Concord Academy Chapel, 166 Main Street, Concord, Mass. Free Admission. Sponsored in conjunction with the Concord Festival of Authors and Massachusetts Poetry Festival.
Sunday, October 31, 2010, 3pm

Ellen Doré Watson and Jim Schley read in the Community Reading Series along with Ibbetson Press poets Doug Holder and Lawrence Kessenich. Reading begins at 3pm in the Dance Studio, second floor of Emerson Umbrella, 40 Stow Street, Concord, Mass. Refreshments, conversation and booksigning follows.
Free Admission. Sponsored in conjunction with the Concord Festival of Authors and Massachusetts Poetry Festival.
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 3pm

Tom Daley performs "Every Broom and Bridget," a one-man play about Emily Dickinson and her Irish servants, as a benefit for the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, Mass.
Suggested donation: $10.

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
Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pmStarts September 8, 2010
Haiku: It's More than 5-7-5: 2-Day Workshop
Instructor: Deborah Finkelstein
Course Description
Saturday, October 2 and Saturday, October 9, 2010
John Berryman's Dream Songs: A Seminar
Instructor: Michael Perrow
Course Description
Mondays, 7-9pm, October 4--November 22, 2010
NOTE: This class is free to CPC members.

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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.

Gallery of Major Events

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.


Home of the Concord Poetry Center and the Emerson Umbrella For The Arts 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742 978-897-0054	Joan Houlihan, Director Concord Poetry Center 978-897-0054 joan@concordpoetry.org Eric Howlett, Webmaster cpc@concordpoetry.org