Past Events

April 23, 2024 New Dawn Writers' Group Open Mic. 7:00 p.m. New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

April 16, 2024 Leading the New Dawn Writers' Group Poetry Workshop. 7:00 p.m. New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

April 14, 2024 Two Tall Poets Read -- Over 12 Feet of Poetry!! presented by Slightly Off-beat Poets, featured poet along with Tommy Twilite, 1:00 p.m. N Grosvenordale, CT. Read "On the Surface," "i and you," "Atmosphere," "Closest Thing," "The Way," "Telescope," "Sundown," "Blacklight," "Eclipse," "Daring Duo," "Dandelions," and "Waves."

April 13, 2024 Write-a-thon at New Dawn. 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

March 28, 2024 Poetorium at Starlite 7:00 p.m., Featured Poet along with Karen Durlach. Read "Grass," "Darkening Trees," "Shadow Fences," "Autumn Will," "The Way," "If I Say I Am Afraid," "189," "Altered State," "Yellow Daylily," "Clover," and "The Way They Spoke of You," plus four poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins at the Starlite Gallery, 39 Hamilton St., Southbridge, MA

March 27, 2024 March Madness Poetry Share, 6:30 p.m. Read "Altered State" and "New Vision" from my new book, Drifting to "Hello,"  and the new poem, "Grass," at Belding Memorial Library, 344 Main St., Ashfield, MA.

March 26, 2024 New Dawn Writers' Group open mic at 7:00 p.m. following the featured poet: Rodger Martin at 6:00 p.m., read "Eclipse" and "Window," at 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

March 21, 2024 Root and Press Cafe and Books, 6:00 p.m. Read "Flipside," "Daring Duo," and "Dandelions" in the open mic from my new book after the feature: Joe Fusco. 156 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester, MA

March 16, 2024 Open Mic Poetry at the Booklovers' Gourmet, 2:00 p.m., Read "Teine Sith," "Voice Above the Waves," and "A Train Runs Through" from my new book, Drifting to "Hello," and "Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham" from the chapbook of the same name. 72 East Main St., Webster, MA

March 14, 2024 Pour Me a Poem open mic, 7:00 p.m., Read "Altered State" from Drifting to "Hello"  following the featured poet, Mark Walsh. 51 Park Street, Mansfield, MA

February 29, 2024 Poetry at the Root, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. read "Dandelions," "I Was a Psychologist," and "A Train Runs Through." Open mic. At The Root, 93 NH Route 101, Temple, NH.

February 27, 2024 Authors' Voices: a Speaker Series, New Dawn Writers' Group, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Featured speaker reading from the new book, Drifting to "Hello," and talking about the poems and the process of getting published! New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main St., Ashburnham, MA.

February 24, 2024 Poets @ Large: Saturday Night, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., read "Going On," "Attic Haunt," and "What to do with the Body -." $10.00, open mic at Vanilla Bean Cafe, 450 Deerfield Rd, Pomfret, CT

February 20, 2024 New Dawn Writers' Group Poetry Workshop 7:00 p.m. at New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

February 17, 2024 Self Awareness & Love - A Poetic Reading, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. read ekphrastic poems "If Love Is Not Over," "Serpent in the Sky," and "things I cannot change" inspired by Jennifer Okumura's paintings and "Corner Seat in an Ashburnham Gallery," along with a fantastic cast of local poets. At Creative Connections Gallery, 56 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA

February 14, 2024 Love Poems After Dark, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., open mic. Read "Seeing," "The Sea, The Sea," "Telescope," "Sunward," "Blacklight," "Waves," "The Way They Spoke of You," and "Returning Home by Pleasant Street." 397 Chandler St, Worcester, MA

February 11, 2024 Slightly Off-Beat Poets open mic. after featured readers, Donna Lange & Brian Mosher 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Read "Voice Above the Waters," "The Cart Path," and "Kerouac Rain." Thompson, CT

February 8, 2024 Monadnock Underground Open Mic. 5:30 p.m. Read "A Kinder Solitude" and "What to do with the Body -." Peterborough Library, 2 Concord St., Peterborough, NH

February 5 & 8, 2024 Worcester Public Library at the Worcester Talking Book Library sound studio. Recorded many individual poems from Drifting to "Hello."

January 2024, Long Dark Winter: A Printed Works Exhibition by New Dawn Writers' Group. Broadsides of poems "Gray Hullaballoo," "Going On," and "Winter Love" on display for the entire month. New Dawn Arts Center, 84 Main St, Ashburnham, MA

January 20, 2024 Poetry and Pie, 2:00 p.m., read "What to do with the body-," "The Ducks," "Moss," and "Attic Haunt." Whiting Library, 117 Main St, Chester, VT

January 7, 2024 New England Poetry Club Member Celebration 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., read "Gray Hullaballoo," "Winter Love," and "Going On," at an online event.

December 3, 2023 Human Error Publishing Holiday Celebration - Readings, Book Fair - Food - Performances 12:00 p.m. read "What to do With the Body --" and "Dandelions" at Gateway City Arts, 92 Race St., Holyoke, MA 

December 2, 2023 Booklovers Gourmet Open Mic 3:00 p.m., read "Altered State" at 72 East Main Street, Webster, MA

October 20, 2023 Quabbin Quills Book Launch for Our Wild Winds at 6:00 p.m. reading the new poem: "Nor'easter Card Trick" at Home & Heart Yoga Studio, 30 Whitney Street, Orange, MA

September 17, 2023 Art on the Trails: Transformation, Closing Event at 3:00 p.m. reading three new poems: "Rippling," "Adrift," and "Earthen Vessels" at the Beals Preserve, corner of Chestnut Hill Road and Route 30, Southborough, MA

September 14 - 17, 2023 Time to Write: Writers' Retreat, Plymouth, MA

June 27, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Open Mic, at New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA

June 20, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Poetry Workshop, 7:00 p.m. at New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA

June 17, 2023 Monadnock Writers' Group Read-a-round, 9:45 a.m. at the Peterbourough Library, Peterborough, NH

June 15, 2023 Monadnock Underground open mic 5:30 p.m. at the Peterborough Library in Peterborough, NH

May 26, 2023 Poetry at the Root in Temple, NH. Read "Altered State," "Darkening Trees," and "Untitled."

May 23, 2023 Hosted the poet Chris O'Carroll for a reading and open mic with the New Dawn Writers' Group in Ashburnham, MA, and read "The Man Who Wasn't," "Altered State," and "Daring Duo."

May 16, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Poetry Workshop  in Ashburnham, MA

May 6, 2023 Reading as a contest winner for Poetry in the Pines, Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, NH, at 10:00 a.m. read "Darkening Trees."

April 27, 2023 Poetry at the Root in Temple, NH, read "Going On," "A Kinder Solitude," and "What to do With the Body."

April 25, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Open Mic in Ashburnham, MA

April 18, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Poetry Workshop  in Ashburnham, MA

April 15, 2023 New Dawn Writers' Group Write-a-thon in Asburnham, MA

January 14, 2023 Monadnock Writers' Group: Opened with a selection of science fiction poems for James Patrick Kelly presenting at the Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH 

October 19,2022 Quabbin Quills: Reading for the Cascades and Currents book launch, Red Apple Farm, Phillipston, MA