Celebrate Poetry Month with an evening of poetry from the comfort of your own home! Join us as we welcome Massachusetts poet Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney for a virtual program that will include a poetry reading, prompts and tips for writing your own poems, and information about poetry events and opportunities in Central Massachusetts.

This event is open to all ages and will take place on Zoom.

Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney’s poems have appeared in Diner, Worcester Review, Journal of Irish Literature, and elsewhere, and have won an Academy of Poets Prize, a Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize, and other awards; her chapbook, Hand Me Down (Finishing Line, 2013), was a semifinalist in the New Women’s Voices Competition.  She is now collaborating with composer Matthew Jaskot on Close and Apart, a song cycle about tragedy, transplantation, and hope.  Beth founded the annual Worcester County College Poetry Competition, now in its fourteenth year, and serves each year as a mentor at the Worcester County Young Writers Conference.  Beth also teaches American literature and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross, where she is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities, and is the director of Mapping Worcester in Poetry, an initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with the Worcester County Poetry Association as community partner.

Note: This is an online event via Zoom. An invite will be sent out at least one hour before the program to the email given at registration.

Event made possible by the MaryEllen and Richard Letarte Poetry Fund.

Photo credit: Elise Saad