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 July 30th 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 Steve Veilleux (Author of Event Horizon) and MW Murphy (Author of All Moments Exist in Every Moment,) followed by poetry readings by our two features, a 10-minute dead poet tribute, a short intermission, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader).
Thompson, Connecticut’s first poet laureate, Steve Veilleux, paints with a surreal paintbrush, combining images into his kaleidoscopic montages. It is the unexpected combinations that often bring his poetry to life, that certain intangible hook that leads the viewer to consider what is lurking within the piece -- and further, to force the viewer to consider what lies within his own psyche. Steve lives in northeastern Connecticut and has been inspired in recent years by the magical beauty of his remote environment. His poetry has appeared in various anthologies, including Silkworm, Connecticut Bards Poetry Review, Many Voices – One Stage, and The Connecticut Poet Laureate Anthology. His first poetry book, Event Horizon, is available from Amazon Books, and he is currently working on a second, What the Moleman Said. He works tirelessly to promote the Spoken Word by hosting and cohosting at several different venues, including the Dye and Bleach House Poetry Series in Willington, Connecticut where poets from the region perform monthly. He has been featured locally by Poets at Large and Cross-Pollinating Poets, and produced a multi-media show from his screenplay Breckenridge County in May 2024 at the Packing House.
MW Murphy writes both fiction & poetry. She has a piece in the anthology Gathered Light (Three O’Clock Press, 2013), and a short story in the anthology A Shadow Map (CCM, 2017). Her work has also appeared in two online poetry mags Breadcrumbs Magazine (2019), and Yes Poetry (2020, 2021), as well as in the Connecticut Bards Anthology (2023, 2024, 2025) and We Are Beat anthologies (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), and the CC&D Anthology (2023, 2024). MW was a featured poet at the Rose Room in Webster, MA in May 2023. She has done readings from her fiction & poetry at various events in bookstores, coffee houses, and parks. Her most recent collection of poetry, All Moments Exist in Every Moment, was published by Metaphysical Fox Press in 2025.
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