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Sunday Afternoon Community Reading Series Presenting established and emerging poets affiliated with the Center and introducing poets from the greater Boston community. All readings take place on Sunday at 3:00 pm. Refreshments and conversation follow. Admission only at the door: $6.00 (students $3.00). SPRING SCHEDULE Sunday, May 3 at 3:00 pm Featured Poet Annie Finch and Moira Linehan. Sunday, June 14 at 3:00 pm Featured Poet Wendy Mnookin with Jonathan Weinert. DOWNLOAD FLYERS HERE: May 3 Reading June 14 Reading GO OFF-THE-GRID! Want to read at the CPC? Create your own “Off-the-Grid” event! Download instructions & procedures HERE. 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: WORKSHOP Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor Course Description STARTS WEDNESDAY, May 6 POETRY TUTORING FOR TEENS Instructor: Susan Edwards Richmond, Poet Course Description ONGOING OFF-SITE CONFERENCES NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS For poets with a book-length manuscript: For the Lesley University Writers' Conference: Sunday, July 26-Friday, July 31 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. A SATURDAY NIGHT READING AT THE CPC (MANY THANKS TO DAVID OMAR WHITE) 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 poly@world.std.com