South of Boston Poetry Trail, December 2017

SOUTH OF BOSTON POETRY TRAIL VOL: 8, No. 86, DATE: DECEMBER, 2017 BITS AND PIECES We laugh, We cry, We write poetry, The world smiles… It is official, thanks to the hard work of Miriam O’Neal, our new temporary home, for the months of January, February and March 2018, will be the Plymouth Town Library. The change in venue is because of construction being done on the Plymouth Center for the Arts. The library is located at 132 South St in Plymouth, please note that the will begin at 1PM at the Library with no Music Feature. The program will be two Poetry Features, refreshment break and Open-mic and should concluded at 3PM. Our program at the library will be as follows; January 21-Poetry Features- Zvi A Sesling & Joyce Wilson; February 4-Poetry Features-Kit Dunlap & Philip Hasouris; and March 4-Alice Kociemba & Fred Marchant. The December poetry program will be held this Sunday December 3, it has been changed because of scheduling conflicts at the PCA. On Thursday December 7 at 2PM at John Curtis Free Library in Hanover, Bill Alberti will be presenting a poetry workshop. It is titled “Mixing the Mediums: Art and Literature A Fun and Educational Workshop”, the event is sponsored by the Hanover Cultural Council and is free and open to the public. For those looking for that perfect holiday gift, how about a book of poetry? To all those who celebrate during this winter season, season greeting and a healthy and successful 2018. READINGS SUNDAY DEC 3, 2017 @12PM POETRY THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES PLYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS 11 NORTH ST PLYMOUTH MUSIC FEATURE LAURA WHITMORE /POETRY FEATURES MYLES GORDON & RENEE SUMMERS/ OPEN-MIC & FREE REFRESHMENTS/ MORE INFO: www.ptaow.com MONDAY DEC 4, 2017 @1PM POETRY DISCUSSION GROUP WITH JOYCE WILSON SCITUATE TOWN LIBRARY-BIG CONFERENCE ROOM 85 BRANCH ST MORE INFO jpwilson@poetryporch.com THURSDAY DEC 14, 2017@6PM NIGHT SLAM EVERY 2ND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH STACY ADAMS CULTURAL ARTS BUILDING 33 DOVER ST BROCKTON, OPEN-MIC 6:30PM/POETRY SLAM 8:15PM/REFRESHMENTS MORE INFO:WWW.BROCKTONARTS.ORG WEDNESDAY DEC 13, 2017 @7PM SALON OF SHORTS BARN AT COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS RTE 28, COTUIT AN EVENING OF POETRY, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE OR RANDOM ACTS OF GENIUS MORE INFO: CONTACT WWW.ARTSONTHECAPE.ORG THURSDAY DEC 14, 2017@7PM DUXBURY POETRY CIRCLE/ DUXBURY LIBRARY-RESOURCE ROOM 77 ALDEN ST DUXBURY/ MORE INFO: ctzaremba@gmail.com SATURDAY DEC 16, 2017 @2PM EVERYONE HAS A VOICE BROCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY SERIES 304 MAIN ST BROCKTON /FEATURES: NICOLE TEREZ DUTTON-STUDENT FEATURE MARCUS PIERRE / OPEN-MIC /MORE INFO:soaringsky@aol.com SUNDAY DEC 17, 2017 2PM BROCKTON WRITING WORKSHOP GALLEY 33 OF BROCKTON ARTS 33 DOVER ST/ MORE INFO: WWW.BROCKTONARTS.ORG THURSDAY DEC 21, 2017 @ 7PM FOR THE LOVE OF WORDS ECAT STUDIOS 50 OLIVER ST 2ND FLOOR SOUTH EASTON FEATURE: MIRIAM O’NEAL / SEATTING LIMITTED FOR MORE INFO RICH BERG BEACHCHAIR@VERIZON.NET TUESDAY DEC 26, 2017 27PM BROCKTON POETRY SERIES GALLEY 33 OF BROCKTON ARTS 33 DOVER ST/ FEATURE / OPEN-MIC/MORE INFO: WWW.BROCKTONARTS.ORG SUBMISSIONS Most of these submissions I get are from a Facebook Group called ‘Call for Submission,’ so join to get daily updates. There will only be 7-10 submission notices per month beginning this month and in the further. Off the Coast, Maine’s International Poetry Journal, published by friends and former Mass residents Valerie Lawson and Michael Brown deadline for submissions are March 15, June 15, Sept 15 and Dec 15. Check them out at www.Off-The-Coast. com, this is a printed journal. Another good friend Zvi a Sesling is the publisher of the Muddy River Poetry Review an online journal out of Brookline Ma. The reading periods for this ezine are Dec 1 to March 1 and June 1 to Sept 1, they are located athttp://www.muddyriverpoetryreview.com/ Verse-Virual--Send five short/medium-sized poems or one long poem in the body of an email AND also in a SINGLE attached document (doc, rtf, etc.) to ff@verse-virtual.com/ Submissions are being accepted for Issue 3 of And So Yeah! We accept submissions of art, poetry, and short fiction from now until January 1, 2018. Please send all submissions to the emailsubmissions@andsoyeah.comwww.andsoyeah.com And follow us on fb https://www.facebook.com/andsoyeah/ I've always been enamored with Rumi, and love his poem This Being Human. I know that I am not alone in loving that poem and that many people have been helped by reading it. Yet when I hear it I often find myself inspired by just the title, and my monkey mind goes swinging off in another direction. This morning I succumbed to that inspiration and wrote the poem that actually came to me on my yoga mat yesterday. It later occurred to me that I would love to read more of these, poems written from the prompt of those three words, This Being Human So let's do it! I will organize, edit, and seek a publisher if we compile enough poems for a volume. Your submission can be emailed to me atT4tu@comcast.net. The Submission period for MAINTENANT 12 ends December 31 so please SUBMIT YOUR DADA-INSPIRED WRITING AND ART to:http://threeroomspress.com/…/maintenant-12-we-are-all-a-li…/And since one is either PRO-ANTI or FOR any subject the theme for MAINTENANT 12 is: WE ARE ALL A "LIKE" Time is running out to submit to Academy of the Heart and Mind's holiday contest. You can submit poetry, fiction, and art. There is no limit to how many pieces you send. Send all submissions by December 20 toacademyoftheheartandmind@gmail.com Gone Lawn is reading submissions for its hibernal issue, #27. We look for fiction, prose and poetry with imagination and sincerity: from the surreal to the slightly peculiar to more uncertain and digressive works. We love the odd notion.http://journal.gonelawn.net/issue26 Brickplight is a quarterly online poetry journal that exists to promote the exploration of unique identities through daring poetry. We will be accepting submissions for Issue 9 through January 25th, 2018. The issue will be published in early February. Brickplight offers no payment. Visit our submissions page for details:https://sites.google.com/site/brickplight/submit JACK SCULLY/ POETRY: The Art of Words Mike Amado Memorial Series; The Poetry Showcase; Visual Inverse; Poetry Partner with Mass Poetry Festival and Plymouth County Representative to Mass Poetry www.ptaow.com jackptaow36@gmail.com