The Improbable Places Poetry Tour
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour lands at Beverly Airport on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
Submission Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2024.
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour, hosted by Colleen Michaels of Montserrat College of Art, is seeking poems about flight and travel for a most unique reading opportunity. On October 22, 2024, The Beverly Regional Airport will host a night of poetry. Boarding begins at 6:30pm in the main terminal. The reading begins at 7pm in an airport hangar that is the site of an intervention by artist Liz Nofziger. The event is free and open to the public.
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour is Montserrat College of Art’s way of bringing together poets and enthusiastic listeners to celebrate the power of poetry and community. At each tour stop a new venue and theme is selected. Started in 2010 by Colleen Michaels, the Improbable Places Poetry Tour has traveled from bike shops to power plants, and from tattoo parlors to Viking ships, with a line-up of poets each reading one poem.
Do you have a travel or airport poem? A poem about flight or wingspan? We want your turbulent tercets from the middle seat and your sonnets skywritten in vapor. We want your red-eyes and your puddle jumpers. Please, someone send a poem as a safety card or a passport. Send the poem that hits like oxygen dropped from the overhead compartment.
Submissions can be sent to [email protected] no later than Friday, October 17, 2024.
If chosen, you must be available to read your work in person at The Beverly Regional Airport on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
The 2024 Improbable Places Poetry Tour is funded by Montserrat College of Art, Beverly Cultural Council, and Mass Cultural Council.
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour has stopped in over 25 unique locations on the North Shore (and beyond!) since 2010:
Centraal Cycle, Beverly, MA
Mowers Barber Shop, Beverly, MA
Good Mojo Tattoos, Beverly, MA
People’s United Bank, Beverly, MA
Salem Laundry Company, Beverly, MA
Waters and Brown, Beverly, MA
YMCA, Beverly MA
Cityside Diner, Beverly, MA
Barter Brothers Flowers, Beverly, MA
17 Cox Gallery, Beverly MA
EuroStoves, Beverly, MA
The Roller Palace, Beverly, MA
Magma Metal, Beverly, MA
Green Meadows Farms, Hamilton, MA
Cabot Theatre, Beverly MA
Chianti Jazz Bar, Beverly, MA
Modern Millie’s Dress Shop, Salem, MA
Winfrey’s Fudge, Beverly MA
Salem Power Plant, Salem MA
Boston City Hall/Hub Week, Boston, MA
Bootstraps, Beverly MA
Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Paper Asylum, Beverly, MA
Crossing Water, Beverly/Salem Bridge
Crane Estate, Ipswich MA
Hale House, Beverly, MA
The Castle, Beverly, MA
