Terrific Event

                         SUNDAY  SEPT. 26    NOON TO FIVE

                                 LOOK PARK

 

                Regie O Gibson reads at Outdoor Poetry Festival

 

FLORENCE OUTDOOR FALL POETRY FESTIVAL

 

 THIS IS OUR SIXTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL

 

Sunday september 26  noon to five

 

   OUR PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR THE FESTIVAL (STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

 

  The master of ceremonies will be TOMMY TWILITE  (poet and musician extradinaire)

 

 Noon    Welcome and  Opening remarks by TOMMY TWILITE

 

 12:05     Florence Poets Society Members

                                                      Howie Fairstein and Paul Richmond

 

 12:20      F eature Reader:   LORI DESROSIERS

                   Ms Desrosiers an  award winning poet and  well known for her long run as an open mic hostess in Westfield , is the editor and

                   publisher  of  poetry anthology Naugatuck River Review, a popular (and indispensible) weekly blog POETRY NEWS  and writer of

                   well received chapbooks.   She is currently a faculty  member  at Westfield  State University.

 

12:40        Florence Poets Society Members

                                                     Gerald Yelle,  Elizabeth Crowell and Linda Wlodyka

 

12:55         Florence Poets Society Members

                                                      Laura Rodley, Ellen Lafleche and Kim Rogers

 

1:15             Feature Reader :  JANET AALFS

                      Ms Aalfs is an educator,  highly regarded poet and former Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, She brings a unique

                      perspective in that her poetry is often times accompanied with beautiful movement.

 

1:40               Florence Poets Society Members

                                                      Anita Gallers and Laura Varney

 

2:00              2010 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL FELLOW IN POETRY

                                                                                         JENDI REITER

                          Jendi Reiter's  books include Swallow (Amsterdam Press 2009) and A Talent for Sadness, published in 2003 by Turning Point 

                         Books. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, Mudfish, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review,

                         Alligator Juniper, MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, Best American Poetry 1990 and many other publications. Awards

                         include first prize for poetry in Alligator Juniper's 2006 National Writing Contest, a prize in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg 2005

                         Poetry Prize contest, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. She is the editor of highly successful online publication

                         Poetry Contest  Insider.

 

2:45                 THE POET LAUREATE OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

                                                                                                      W.E. BUTTS

 

                           W.E. Butts is the author of several poetry collections, including Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, which was chosen as a finalist

                           for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and selected winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and the chapbooks What

                           to Say if the Birds Ask (Pudding House Publications, 2007) Sunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006), White Bees (Oyster River

                           Press, 2001), and A Season of Crows (Igneus Press, 2000).  He has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and a Massachusetts

                           Artists Foundation Award.  He is a member of the faculty of the BFA in Writing Program at Goddard College, and is listed in two

                           editions of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.  His poems appear frequently in such magazines as Atlanta Review, Birmingham

                           Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, and Poetry East.

 

 

3:30                  MUSICAL INTERLUDE

 

 

3:45                   2010 MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL FELLOW IN POETRY

                                                                           

Regie Gibson,

winner of the 1998 National Slam Competition

 

                               Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools,

                               universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries. Most recently in Havana, Cuba. Regie

                               and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film Love Jones,        

 

 

4:20                    Florence Poets Society Members

                                                                                Michael Arraj  and Bob Lipton

 

4:35                     Florence Poets Society Members

                                                                                 Nancy Denig and Richard Greene

 

 

4:45                      Florence Poets Society Members

                                                                                  Martina Robinson and Denise Barberet

 

 

5:00                     CLOSING REMARKS 

 

                                                                                TOMMY TWILITE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WE HAVE A TERRIFIC PROGRAM      (NB  this is a new page lots more information will be added soon!!!!! - your webpagemanager)

 FEATURED READERS  (All readers are currently scheduled to appear)

 W.E. BUTTS         POET LAUREATE OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

  

     REGIE O'HAIRE  GIBSON     2010 POETRY FELLOW HONOREE            MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL

      JENDI REITER        2010 POETRY FELLOW HONOREE           MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL

 

      JANET AALFS           FORMER POET LAUREATE CITY OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS

 

      LORI DESROSIERS      EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF NAUGATUCK RIVER REVIEW AND POETRY NEWS

 

  Members of the Florence Poets Society

   Howard Faerstein

   Michael Arraj

   Robert Lipton

   Nancy Denig

   Laura Varney

   Anita Gallers

   Richard Greene

    Elizabeth Crowell

    Linda Wlodyka

    Kim Rogers

    Laura Rodley

     Paul Richmond

     Martina Robinson