AUG 2: Carla Schwartz & Eileen Cleary – Poem Works Reading on Zoom, followed by an Open Mic
Date/Time
Date(s) - August 2, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Gibson's Bookstore
Categories
CARLA SCHWARTZ & EILEEN CLEARY, followed by an Open Mic
Friday, August 2, 2024, at 7 PM. Free.
PoemWorks Series (Virtually via Zoom)
Join PoemWorks for a poetry reading with Carla Schwartz & Eileen Cleary, followed by an Open Mic (a one-page poem or one page of a poem; sign up by emailing host Richard Waring at richardwaringpoet@gmail.com).
Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed.) and in her collections Signs of Marriage (Finishing Line), Mother, One More Thing (Turning Point), and Intimacy with the Wind (Finishing Line). Learn more at carlapoet.com, or wakewiththesun.blogspot.com or find her on X (https://x.com/cb99videos), YouTube (https://youtube.com/cb99videos), Threads (https://threads.net/@cb99videos), BlueSky:(https://bsky.app/profile/cb99videos.bsky.social) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/cb99videos). Recent and future curations include Banyan Review, Cutthroat, great weather for MEDIA, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Modern Haiku, New-Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Triggerfish, Worcester Review, and Leon. Carla is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. Her poem, “Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother,” won the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize.
Eileen Cleary is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021), and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus, which was the featured text at the 2021 MSU Filmetry Festival. Eileen founded and edits the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and curates the Lily Poetry Salon. A multi-Pushcart nominee, her work is published widely in journals and anthologies.
PoemWorks events at www.facebook.com/groups/poemworks.
To see past videos, go to https://www.youtube.com/@RichardWaring/videos.
Richard Waring is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5112338153?pwd=0IhJE3yRtsagu64MKhTC0R1put8VH0.1
Meeting ID: 511 233 8153
Passcode: dQH2G2