Coming in April from Tell-Tale Chapbooks

Taken from the Tell-Tale Chapbooks home page and Facebook page.

Cover art by TJ Edson

A Letter to the World by Jason Wright

Jason Wright is the editor and founder of Oddball Magazine. He has been published in the Somerville Scout, Fox Chase Review, Wilderness Review, Stone's Throw, Somerville Times, and other publications. In 2014 was selected to read "Strong as the Boston Skyline" at Boston City Hall's tribute to survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing. Oddball Magazine was featured at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2014, and Wright has read at the Cambridge River Festival for 4 consecutive years. He was given a Certificate of Achievement by former Poet Populist of Cambridge Toni Bee and the English Department Award of Achievement from Bunker Hill Community College.

Wright studied under Lloyd Schwartz at UMass Boston as well as Joe Torra. He earned a Literary Publishing Certificate in 2010 from Gian Lombardo, Editor/Founder of Quale Press. He is a regular at the Stone Soup Poetry Series in Cambridge and can also be found every Tuesday in his column Jagged Thoughts.

The Cambridge River Festival's Poetry Tent: The Saturday Schedule

Here's the schedule for this Saturday, courtesy of current Cambridge Poet Populist Lo Galluccio.

Lo introduces the festival and plays 20 minute set with John Voight noon

Doug Holder 12:20 – 12:35 pm
Irene Koronas 12:35-12:50
Michael Todd Steffan 12:50-1:05 pm
Jennifer Jean 1:05 pm – 1:20 pm
Joey Gould 1:20 pm – 1:35 pm
Toni Bee 1:35 pm – 1:50 pm
Jean Dany Joachim 1:50 pm – 2:05 pm
Shari Caplan 2:05 pm – 2:20 pm
Donald Vincent 2:20 pm – 2:45 pm
Charlotte Seley 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Harris Gardner 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Chad Parenteau 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Debbie Finklestein 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Andrew Peterson – 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Tomas O’ Leary – 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Dennis Daly 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Tamlin Neville – 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Bert Stern – 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Teisha Twomley – 5:15 – 5:30 pm
Tim Gager – 5:30-5:45 pm
Open mike from 5:45 pm to 6 pm

I'll be Reading at The River Festival Tomorrow

The Poetry Tent & 4th Poet Populist @ The Cambridge River Festival Public By Lo Galluccio and Toni Bee

JOIN us under The Poetry Tent at The Cambridge River Festival to HEAR art-filled Poetry daylong and SEE the 3rd Poet Populist CROWN the 4th!

Toni Bee and Lo Galluccio play host to You as their friends read soulful Poetry from 12-6pm at the base of Weeks Bridge on the river Charles. (PEEK at the list of Poets below /-)

BE THERE at 2:30pm when Toni Bee CROWNS Lo Galluccio as the 4th Poet Populist of Cambridge, MA

POETRY to feel, MUSIC to hear & the SINGING to vibe to – it will all be under the Poetry Tent/ there’ll be poetry PROMPTS to spark your creative imagination PLUS we’ll have the Magnetic Poetry Boards for you to play and ponder over !

SEE the SCHEDULE of POETS Below / be sure to bring friends to say so long to # 3 Toni Bee and Welcome Lo Galluccio as 4th poet to represent Cambridge:

12:05-1:30pm Trae Anita, Singer, Glenn Lucci Furman, Aminata of Books of Hope, Jason Wright of Odd Ball Magazine, Christian Standeford of Facelessvoice.tumblr.com, OPEN MIC, Lynette Forrey, Diamond

1:30 – 2:15pm – Jean-Dany Joachim & City Night Reading Poets : Alan Smith, Thom Wylie, Amy Grunder, & Juan Casillas Alvarez

2:30 – CROWNED – Lo Galluccio as The 4th Poet Populist of Cambridge, MA

2:45 pm – Lo Galluccio with Ken Field of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

3:15 -4:30PM - Tom Daley, Poetry Workshop Leader, Irene Koronas of Wilderness House Literary Review, Tim Gager of Dire Literary Series, Harris Gardner of Tapestry of Voices, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Chad Parenteau of Stone Stoup

4:30 – 5pm - Joe Younge , Toni Bee of The Wang & Shubert Theatre’s in Boston

5-6pm OPEN MIC

HOPE to see you There!

Directions can be found here.