RIVERFEST: Saturday, June 16th, 2pm--5pm at the Old Manse, 269 Monument Street, Concord, MA

CPC members reading schedule:

2:00 Pat Lowery Collins
2:20 Suzanne Owens
2:40 Moira Linehan
3:00 Mike Perrow
3:20 Joan Kimball
3:40 Jonathan Weinert
4:00 Joan Houlihan
4:20 Susan Edwards Richmond
4:40 Helen Marie Casey
5:00 Jennifer Flescher

How to Get There: From Concord Center (Monument Square), take Monument Street north 0.5 mile. Entrance and parking area (20 cars) are on the left side of road just before the North Bridge.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

"On the Road" Exhibit Reading in Lowell with Concord Poetry Readers

Mike Perrow, Susan Edwards Richmond, and Joan Houlihan

at the Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell, MA. For more information, contact Steve Edgington, Cultural Organization of Lowell at revsde@hotmail.com

Susan Edwards Richmond : Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

Susan Edwards Richmond, Elizabeth Cooper, and Nancy Hayes Clune will read and discuss their poetry at the Groton Public Library on Tuesday, April 3, at 7:00 p.m. The library is located at 99 Main Street, Groton. For more information, contact Ann Wilson at 978-448-8000.

Joan Houlihan : Tuesday, April 10th, at 7:00 pm, Newton Free Library Poetry Series

Joan Houlihan will read with Martha Collins and Louisa Solano at the Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre
617-796-1360

Sarah Getty : Saturday, April 14, 2007, 2:00 p.m.

Sarah Getty will read for twenty minutes as part of the Boston Poetry Festival on Saturday, April 14 at 2:00 in Room 5-6 (a double room) of the Boston Public Library. Copies of her book, Bring Me Her Heart will be available for sale.

Susan Edwards Richmond : Saturday, April 14, at 2:00 p.m.

Steeped in Poetry: Discovering the Poetic Spirit of Fruitlands Come celebrate poetry month and spring at Fruitlands Museum. Join poet Susan Edwards Richmond, over tea of course, as she shares old and new poems that speak to the spirit of Fruitlands including the Transcendentalists. Visit the Fruitlands web site for tea menu details and fees.

FULCRUM MARATHON POETRY READING

WHEN: Wednesday Jan 10 at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lame Duck Books, 12 Arrow Street, Harvard Square
(landmark: Cafe Pamplona)
WHO: David Blair, Lisa Goldfarb, Joan Houlihan, George Kalogeris, Katia Kapovich, X J Kennedy, Ben Mazer, Andy McCord, John Mulrooney, Philip Nikolayev, Benjamin Paloff, Jacquelyn Pope,
Don Share, Mark Schorr, Ellen Steinbaum, Stephen Sturgeon, Ellen Wehle & others
HOW: Free, reception to follow, all friends are welcome!

SPONSORED by FULCRUM: AN ANNUAL OF POETRY AND AESTHETICS
Philip Nikolayev & Katia Kapovich, Editors
and Lame Duck Books QUERIES: 617 868-2022

Joan Houlihan : Monday, February 5, 2007, 7:30 pm

Joan Houlihan and Ander Monson will read for the Grolier Poetry Series at 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (The "Democracy Center" between Deadalus Books and St. Paul's Church.)

Susan Edwards Richmond : Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6:30 p.m.

Susan Edwards Richmond and Kevin Bowen will read in Tapestry of Voices at Borders Bookstore, 10-24 School Street, Boston.

Joan Houlihan and Susan Edwards Richmond : Friday, February 9, 2007, 7:30 p.m

Joan Houlihan and Susan Edwards Richmond will read at The Depot Square Gallery, 1837 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington.

Joan Houlihan : Tuesday, Feb. 27th, at 7:00 pm, Urban Village Arts Series

Joan Houlihan will read at the National Park Visitor Center, Market St., Lowell, MA. Sponsored by Lowell Poetry Network and University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Contact: David Robinson, 978 934 2155, email: David_Robinson@uml.edu

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Sarah Getty : In July of 2006 (July 4 - 14)

Sarah Getty will lead a poetry workshop to be held at the Villa Virgiliana in Naples, Italy. The aim is to connect poets with their own creativity and with the art and history of the classical world. In addition to supportive workshop sessions, the program will include scholar-led excursions to ancient archeological sites at Cumae, Baia, Naples, Herculaneum and Pompeii. The Villa captures the atmosphere of a more elegant era and offers superb, authentic Italian cuisine. The cost for the entire program, including nine nights at the Villa, all transportation within Italy, and all meals except those during excursions, is $1,545. Come be inspired by the spirit of the ancient world! For more information, go to

Sarah's Web Site
and click on the Workshops button.

Susan Edwards Richmond : Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

will read at the Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main Street, Lancaster, MA. An open reading will begin the evening, so bring a poem to share!

Susan Richmond : Friday, May 19, 2006, at 7:00 p.m.

A joint poetry reading and art opening with artist Linda Hoffman's "Sculpture: Wood and Other Species" at Atelier 10, Nason Street, Maynard, MA. Ms. Richmond will read her own and others' work from The Dire Elegies: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America, a new anthology just released from Foothills Press. For more information, call the gallery at 978-897-7006.

Cammy Thomas: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 1:30 pm

Cammy Thomas will read as part of the Robert Creeley Annual Award event with Carolyn Forche at Faulkner Room (204), Acton Town Hall, 472 Main Street, Acton, MA.

Tickets: free, but required, will be available at Acton Memorial Library, 486 Main St., from April 1. Call (978) 264-9641 or pick them up at any of the following outlets: Porter Square Books, the Concord Bookshop, Willow Books, West Acton Market, and Citizens and Sargent Libraries (Acton and Boxborough).

Wednesday, April 19th at 6:30

Joan Houlihan

founder and director of the CPC and

Gail Mazur

writer in residence at Emerson College, and founder of the Blacksmith House poetry reading series, will read together at the Concord Academy Chapel, 166 Main Street, Concord

Len Solo : April 6, 2006

Len Solo will read at the Arlinglton Arts Center, in Arlington, on the evening of April 6. He will be reading from his book Landscape of the Misty Eye (2004) and the soon-to-be-published Rooted in Place.

Here’s the Web site for more info: Arlington Center for the Arts

Suzanne Owens : Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 1:30 pm

Suzanne Owens and Lorene Lamothe will read at DESIGN AT 639 in Fitchburg, MA. Located at 639 Main Street opposite the Fitchburg Public Library.

Free. Followed by an open reading and refreshments.

Steven Cramer : Tuesday March 21, 2006

Steven Cramer will read at 8:00 PM Adams House, Entry C, Lower Common Room 26 Plympton Street, Cambridge , MA as part of The Grolier Poetry Reading Series: An Evening with Three Sarabande Poets. The other poets are Dick Allen, and Cathleen Calbert.

Steven Cramer and Joan Houlihan : Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 2 pm

Steven Cramer, Joan Houlihan, David Rivard and Reggie Gibson will read at the Forsyth Chapel in historic Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA

Here’s the Web site for more info: Forest Hills Trust, Poetry in the Chapel

Michael Ansara : Monday, February 6, 2006

Michael Ansara will read at the Porter Square Bookstore, in Porter Square, on Monday, February 6 at 7:00 p.m. He will be reading with three other readers from "Poemworks." Free parking is available in the parking lot at the Porter Square Shopping Center where the book store is located. The store is also accessible by T (Red Line to Porter Square). Here’s the Web site for more info: Porter Square Books

Sophie Wadsworth : November 19

Saturday, November 19, 2:00 p.m. Wilbraham Public Library, Wilbraham, MA Three readers: Margaret Szumowski, Edwina Trentham, and Sophie Wadsworth

Sarah Getty : November 3

Sarah Getty will read on Thursday, November 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Tapestry of Voices Poetry Series. Borders Books and Music, 10-12 School Street, Downtown Crossing, Boston. Followed by open mike at 7:30. For more information: 617-557-7188.

Sophie Wadsworth : Thursday Oct. 27th 7:00 PM

Sophie will be reading from Letters from Siberia (a collection of poems out last December) and perhaps a few poems from her new work.

Reading will be at the Goodnow Memorial Building, 2 Town Hall Drive, Princeton, MA. Tel. 978-464-2115

Michael Hoerman : October 16

Michael Hoerman will read at the annual Tribute to E.E. Cummings at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain. The tribute will be on Saturday, 10/16 at 2:00 PM in the Forsyth Chapel, and will be followed by a walk to the poet's grave site.

Sarah Getty : September 16

Sarah Getty will read at the Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster Street, East Arlington, on Thursday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m. For more information: 781-648-6220.

Michael Hoerman : September 10

Michael Hoerman will be the featured reader at Poetribe at East Bridgewater Public Library on September 10 at 7:30pm.

Susan Edwards Richmond & Sophie Wadsworth: Read on May 10

Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 PM at Borders in Framingham, MA (followed by Open Mike).

Steven Cramer: Read on May 11

Wednesday, May 11, at 7:30 PM at Maynard Public Library, 197 Main Street, Maynard, MA, with David Rivard.

Susan Edwards Richmond: Read on June 12

Sunday, June 12, at 3:00 PM at Mill Brook Gallery in Concord, NH will read in conjunction with an exhibition called, "Wings, Feathers, and Flight: The Birds of Artists and Poets." Followed by Reception.

Helen Marie Casey: Read on June 14

Tuesday, June 14, at 7:30 PM at Borders, 85 Worcester Road (Rt. 9), Framingham, MA For more information, please contact:Borders @508-875-2321

Michael Hoerman & Sophie Wadsworth: Read on June 25

Will read with the MCC Fellows in poetry at Forbes Library in Northampton at 3:00 PM.