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Tales from inside the pandemic. It's been a long year! Sourdough, mask confusion, loss, and moments of joy - anything is possible as storytellers lay it on the line.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live event. New to Zoom? It's free and easy. You do not have to have a camera and/or microphone on your device to watch/listen, but it might be more fun if you do! Poets do like to see an audience!
Social, physical, emotional - poets step into the space between.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live event. New to Zoom? It's free and easy. You do not have to have a camera and/or microphone on your device to watch/listen, but it might be more fun if you do! Poets do like to see an audience!
Poets Creating Conversation challenges poets to circle loosely around a theme or issue to create a broad, multi-dimensional “conversation” between poems, poets, and audience.
Words@Work - Each month a new challenge, offered by a new provocateur. Culminating in a Zoom event to share the results with each other and the public. The challenges - more technical, than thematic - may range from light-hearted to heavy-lifting, but always with a good humor and open to wide-ranging responses and results.
Missed connections and close calls. Poets chew on neurons and synapse to navigate the mindscape.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live event. New to Zoom? It's free and easy. You do not have to have a camera and/or microphone on your device to watch/listen, but it might be more fun if you do! Poets do like to see an audience!
Poets Creating Conversation challenges poets to circle loosely around a theme or issue to create a broad, multi-dimensional “conversation” between poems, poets, and audience.
Words@Work - Each month a new challenge, offered by a new provocateur. Culminating in a Zoom event to share the results with each other and the public. The challenges - more technical, than thematic - may range from light-hearted to heavy-lifting, but always with a good humor and open to wide-ranging responses and results.
Sometimes, you just don’t see it coming. And sometimes you do.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live event. New to Zoom? It's free and easy. You do not have to have a camera and/or microphone on your device to watch/listen, but it might be more fun if you do! Poets do like to see an audience!
Poets Creating Conversation challenges poets to circle loosely around a theme or issue to create a broad, multi-dimensional “conversation” between poems, poets, and audience.
Words@Work - Each month a new challenge, offered by a new provocateur. Culminating in a Zoom event to share the results with each other and the public. The challenges - more technical, than thematic - may range from light-hearted to heavy-lifting, but always with a good humor and open to wide-ranging responses and results.
Poets peel back masks - theirs or others - to reveal what lies beneath.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live event. New to Zoom? It's free and easy. You do not have to have a camera and/or microphone on your device to watch/listen, but it might be more fun if you do! Poets do like to see an audience!
Poets Creating Conversation challenges poets to circle loosely around a theme or issue to create a broad, multi-dimensional “conversation” between poems, poets, and audience.
Words@Work - Each month a new challenge, offered by a new provocateur. Culminating in a Zoom event to share the results with each other and the public. The challenges - more technical, than thematic - may range from light-hearted to heavy-lifting, but always with a good humor and open to wide-ranging responses and results.
WordXWord has invited 7 poets to create and perform responses to - and inside of - Shaun Leonardo’s YOU WALK . . . in the Hunter Center Mezzanine. Performances at 2, 2:30 and 3:30P. Free.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
Wear your walking shoes and follow along as poets respond to the SculptureNow exhibition on the grounds of The Mount/Edith Wharton’s Home. Each evening will offer a different combination of poets and responses! All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
WordXWord has challenged poets to step outside of their typically solitary discipline to create and perform collaborative pieces. All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
Wear your walking shoes and follow along as poets respond to the SculptureNow exhibition on the grounds of The Mount/Edith Wharton’s Home. Each evening will offer a different combination of poets and responses! All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
Featuring the voices of 9 women, spanning 7 generations and a broad spectrum of approach and style. Grace Rossman, Melissa Cairns, Dianne Olsen, Don’Jea Smith, D Colin, Liv McKee, Ashley Wonder, Hazel Glazer, & Nicki T All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
Wear your walking shoes and follow along as poets respond to the SculptureNow exhibition on the grounds of The Mount/Edith Wharton’s Home. Each evening will offer a different combination of poets and responses! All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
Storytellers spin tales around the theme “unsaid” in a lively, friendly competition. All WordXWord events are free, however reservations are encouraged. Visit EdithWharton.org to make reservations and for more information.
The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
(Poets Creating Conversation / Outdoors at The Mount)
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
The air is getting crisper. Leaves are falling. Poets may or may not be talking about the weather and changing seasons. Or maybe we're just talking about living in America.
This event will be held outdoors. Dress for the weather. It’s New England, so you may need mittens or you may need a tank top . . .
For this event we are requiring that participating poets be fully vaccinated for Covid-19. Everyone - per local regulations - audience and poets will be asked to wear face masks when maintaining 6 feet of distance is not possible.
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