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.
Director of the Writing Center Colleen Michaels was recently one of “Six local teachers and writers” who “served as judges for The Salem News poetry contest, poring over roughly 100 poems and offering thoughtful selections with insightful comments.”
“Colleen Michaels is director of the Writing Center at Montserrat College of Art. Her poems and essays have appeared in a variety of publications. In 2008, she was commissioned by the Trustees of Reservations to create a public art installation of her poem “Align” at Crane Beach in Ipswich. She is the founder of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour and is one of the organizers for the 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem this weekend.”
BEVERLY, MA, May 2011 –– Montserrat College of Art is proud to announce its participation and sponsorship to the 2011 Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. The Mass Poetry festival is a three-day celebration of the poetry and literary heritage that includes readings by renowned and emerging poets, teacher workshops, performance poetry, films, music, programs for children and young writers and a small press fair with more than 50 presenters. Montserrat College of Art’s Writing Center Director Colleen Michaels has made incredible headway over the last year to increase access to and the opportunity to showcase poetry in our North Shore community. At this year’s Mass Poetry Festival, Montserrat College of Art is excited to expand on these efforts and utilize our creative talents to enhance the presence of the festival in the community and the experience of those participating in it.
Montserrat’s own community of poets will be participating in the event in multiple ways. Along with faculty member Dawn Paul, who will be hosting the event, Michaels will be a featured reader in the North Shore Poets in the Round on Friday, May 13. The reading begins at 5:30 pm at the Athenaeum in Salem. Montserrat is also proud to introduce its Slam Poetry Team. Montserrat students Grant Archer, Elizabeth Paddock, and Jordan Pomazon will be competing in the Intercollegiate Poetry Slam at Gulu Gulu Café in Salem at 9:30 pm on Friday, May 13.
Beyond sharing our powerful writing and performing skills, Montserrat College of Art was happy to offer our talents with the visual arts in support of the Festival. Faculty Sarah Smith and Imposition Press, Montserrat’s Letterpress Print Studio, were asked to create broadsides for the Common Threads Project, a collection of the seven poems that were taught in Massachusetts’s schools and libraries during National Poetry Month. The broadsides are part of a fundraising effort and have helped to earn more than $8000 in support. Montserrat students from faculty John Colan’s Graphic Design class also designed the Festival posters. Printmaking department chair Stacy Thomas-Vickory and student Zac Goldstein, along with others from the Printmaking and Book Arts departments, will be offering printmaking demonstrations and hand-made Festival book bags from 12-4 on Saturday, May 14, at Marginalia in Derby Square, Salem.
For more information and a full schedule of events visit www.masspoetry.org
