Writing Center Director Colleen Michaels‘ featured in Paper Nautilus!
Colleen Michaels’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Blue Collar Review, The Mom Egg, and Literary Mama; She has received honorable mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. She directs the Writing Center at Montserrat College of Art where she hosts The Improbable Places Poetry Tour.
Below is Michaels’ “Bowing to Vines out of Season”
The September month’s venue of the the Improbable Places Poetry Tour was the front window of Good Mojo’s tattoo parlor!
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour is Montserrat’s way of bringing together student writers, local poets, area businesses, and enthusiastic listeners to celebrate the power of poetry and community. Each month a new venue and theme will be selected.
Video filmed and edited by Jack Moffitt ’12.
Click here for more info and past readings!
Good Mojo Tattoos Website
As part of the Peabody Institute Library’s Groundbreaking American Poetry Series, faculty member Dawn Paul will present a lecture and discussion on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Collected Sonnets Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 10:30 a.m. at the Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main St., Peabody, MA Registration required. Click here for more information.
Dawn’s Lecture was also featured in The Salem News Calendar.
The next stop on Montserrat’s wildly successful poetry tour is People’s United Bank, formerly Danversbank, in the old Beverly National Bank
Deadline for entries is Friday, Nov. 11th Submit them in a private message to the Improbable Places Poetry Tour Facebook Page, email them to colleen.michaels@montserrat.edu, or drop them off at the Writing Center on the 2nd floor of the Montserrat library in the Hardie building
Think about the old changing into the new, payouts, spare change in your pocket – $$ is all around us, being exchanged in so many different ways!
The reading will take place Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. 240 Cabot Street, Beverly
Alumnus Erik Lomen graduated from Montserrat in 2010. His most recent endeavor is a mural that covers 5 walls on 5 different floors located at 22 Federal St. (corner of Federal and Chapman) in Beverly. Each of the walls was simultaneously created and represents poets from the North Shore, including Jim Dunn (1st), Joe Torra (2nd), Jim Behrle (3rd), James and Amanda Cook (4th), and Gerrit Lansing (5th). All are still living and will be reading Saturday, Sept. 24 at 5 pm at 22 Federal St.
Come enjoy refreshments, poetry readings, and great conversation from the North Shore poets that inspired Erik Lomen’s mural at 22 Federal St.
Visit Erik’s blog to see the progress of his mural and to get a better sense of how this poetry reading came to be!
Please contact Erik at 978.846.3269 or elomen@gmail.com with any questions.
Gerrit Lansing’s portrait, a Gloucester poet and dear friend of Erik’s,
located on the 5th floor of 22 Federal St. in Beverly.
