Please join us for another special Worcester Wednesday double feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium (formerly held at the Starlite in Southbridge) at TidePool Bookshop on May 28th from 5 pm to 7 pm hosted by Ron Whittle and Paul Szlosek. It will be a full two hours of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets Kat Pihl (Author of Omphaloskepsis) and Anne Marie Lucci (Founder and Host of The Street Beat Poetry Venue) followed by poetry readings by our two features, a 10-minute dead poet tribute to Rainier Maria Rilke by Robert Eugene Perry, a short intermission, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader). Admission is free, but a hat will be passed for donations to pay our features. For more information, please get in touch with us at
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Kat Pihl resides in Northeast Connecticut and recently published her first book, omphaloskepsis, in March of 2024 through Alien Buddha Press. Pihl’s poetry is often confessional, examining the experiences that shape us, and asking, in the great tradition of Michael Scott, why are we the way that we are? Pihl was the 2011 Dorothy McCollum Siebert Award winner at Eastern University and has been performing her poetry (sporadically) ever since.
Anne Marie Lucci is an award-winning and published poet known mostly as the longtime founder and host of The Street Beat Poetry venue. She served for 21 years as the Vice President/Publicist at The WCPA. She has placed twice in the WCPA Annual Poetry Contest – The Frank O’Hara Prize. Her autobiographical prose and poetry have been published in Worcester Magazine, The Sahara, The Worcester Review, The Issue and The Syracuse Review. She hopes to someday be remembered for her chewy hermits and blonde brownies as much as her poems.
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