Poetry Reading at Bear & Bee Bookshop
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Boiler House Poets Collective celebrates its annual residency with a reading at the Bear & Bee Bookshop, 28 North Holden Street in North Adams at 7 PM on Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The Boiler House Poets Collective will be in residence on the MASS MoCA campus from Oct. 7-13, an annual event since 2015. Ten poets spend their studio time creating new work, honing works in progress, and collaborating with their fellow artists in residence. Individually and collectively, they explore creating work including ekphrastic poetry inspired by museum installations, exquisite corpse poems, cleave poems, and video poems.
"MASS MoCA's art and the Berkshires' beauty, coupled with the support of my fellow poets, have been central to my work, resulting in a chapbook and a full-length poetry collection," said Joanne Corey, who is one of the original members of the Collective.
Wendy Stewart, who joined the Collective in 2022 added, "Spending a week dwelling in art, practicing art, talking with artists, sharing art: what could be better? The Boiler House Poets Collective Residency at MASS MoCA is a bright spot in my year."
This will be the Collective's second year reading at Bear & Bee Bookshop. The event is free (and there will be light refreshments). For more information, visit the websites of The Boiler House Poets Collective and The Bear and Bee Bookshop.
