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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, April 27 at 3:00 pm Featured Poet David Rivard and emerging poet Michael Ansara with community readers Colleen Ottomano and Lindsay Kramer (Hopkinton High School). Sunday, May 18th at 3:00 pm Featured Poet Afaa Michael Weaver and emerging poet Bob Clawson with community reader Carolyn Hunter from Simmons College.
DOWNLOAD FLYER HERE: April 27 Reading May 18 Reading
Click on any one of the pictures below to visit a gallery of pictures from one of the readings.                                                                                                                                                        OFF-THE-GRID BOOK LAUNCH: KATHY NILSSON'S THE ARBATTOIR Sunday, June 8th, 3 pm The Dance Studio 40 Stow Street Concord, MA 01742 Refreshments follow Go off the grid so far you can't come back! with Kathy Nilsson, Mike Perrow, and Joan Houlihan 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. ONLINE POETRY WORKSHOP: THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE Instructor: Reginald Shepherd, Nationally Renowned Poet and Editor Course Description TBA BUILDING A BETTER POEM: CRAFT & THE MARKETPLACE Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor Course Description STARTS WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 BIRDS & POETRY: HOW THEY FLOCK TOGETHER Instructor: Christopher Jane Corkery Poet &Essayist, Instructor, Holy Cross College Course Description STARTS TUESDAY, MAY 6 POETRY TUTORING FOR TEENS Instructor: Susan Edwards Richmond, Poet Course Description ONGOING

OFF-SITE CONFERENCES, SUMMER '08: NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS--for poets with a book-length manuscript:

Gallery of Major Events
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C.D.Wright & Forrest Gander Fall, 2007 America's foremost poetry couple doubled our pleasure.   St. Patrick's Day Gala Gathering Spring, 2007 Kennedy, Donnelly, Delanty, Kearney, Houlihan, Tobin, Casey & More.   Lucie Brock-Broido Came to Our Town Fall, 2006 Professor Brock-Broido showed us why she runs the show at Columbia.     Tribute to Jane Kenyon Spring, 2006 Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff loved Kenyon and her poetry, and we found out why.   An Evening of Great Poems Fall, 2005 Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart in a grand poetic conspiracy.   Dillon Bustin Sings Thoreau Summer, 2005 Dillon and his harmonic convergence of Thoreau, poetry, and song. To the Honor of Donald Justice Spring, 2005 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.

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