Third Thursday Poetry
February 20 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for Third Thursday Poetry! We have a 15-minute featured poet, a time to socialize with wine and cheese, and then an open mic. Before COVID, for more than fifteen years, Third Thursday Poetry was hosted in Gallery 55 in Natick Center. The founder, Molly Saccardo, re-launched the series at Ten Trees Books last month.
The reading will start promptly at 6:45 p.m. Our featured poet will be NEPC Board Member Lynne Viti, inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts, and faculty emerita at Wellesley College. Her most recent full-length poetry collection is The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). Her poem, “No Registration Required,” was named poem of the year in the 2024 Hale Education Poetry Contest. She was selected for the 2023 Miriam Chaikin/Westbeth Artists Poetry Award and third place in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. She facilitates a poets in the schools program in Westwood, as well as a poetry workshop for adults at the Westwood Public Library.
Book signing to follow. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is advised.