Jean Dany Joachim at the Boston Poetry Marathon

 

Tonight: Newton Free Library Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Toni Bee, Charlot Lucien and Jean Dany Joachim read. Click here for more info.

This Tuesday: Newton Free Library Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Toni Bee, Charlot Lucien and Jean Dany Joachim read. Click here for more info.

See Me Tonight at The Longfellow House

If you're in Cambridge, stop by tonight for a night of poetry hosted by Toni Bee and featuring myself, Stacy Torbeck, Heather Nelson and Jean Dany Joachim for Our History: Poetry & the Personal Past. 

The Flyer for My Event at The Longfellow House

Thank you, Toni Bee. Join us this Thursday.

Our History: Poetry & the Personal Past on October 13:

Join me this Thursday as I'll be part of a poetry event hosted by Toni Bee at the Longfellow House on 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge. see me read along with poets Heather Nelson, Jean Dany Joachim, Justice James Isaiah and Stacy Torbeck from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Facebook page also available. I'm thrilled to be reading in Cambridge and thank good friend Toni and the Longfellow House for giving me this opportunity.

The Hard Work of Justice

This week with Mass Poetry's The Hard Work of Hope series, they take a different look at the concept of hope with a focus on Haiti. Read poems by Lenelle Moïse, Jean Dany Joachim, Danielle Legros Georges, Patrick Sylvain, Tontongi, and Jean-Calude Martineau right now over at Mass Poetry.

 

A Reading of Cambridge Poet Populists

A Message from Lo Galluccio:


You are cordially invited to a poetry reading by all four Poet Populists of Cambridge -- Peter Payack, Jean DanyJoachim, Toni Bee and myself on February 7th at 7:30 pm in the Hastings Room of the First Congregational Church on the edge of Harvard Square, 11 Garden Street.

We come together to share our work as poets who have all been honored to serve Cambridge in the Poet Populist role for 2 year stints.  

We are as diverse as the City of Cambridge with unique voices & poetic styles.

Hope you can make it.  It's free!

Thanks to Michael Todd Steffan for organizing this event.

Love and light to all.

 

 

The Night of Poet Populists is Almost Upon Us

See Jean Dany Joachim read tonight at Stone Soup Poetry (hosted by Toni Bee).  Here's a poem of his published in Friday's Stone Soup Servings in Oddball Magazine. 

August 11: Jean Dany Joachim and the Night of the Poet Populists

Jean Dany Joachim served as Cambridge Poet Populist from 2009-11 and was succeeded by Tony Bee from 2011-2013. This Monday, both poets will be in the house for one night. Jean Dany will be featuring and Toni Bee will be co-hosting. This is a pairing I've wanted to make happen for a long time, and I'm excited that it finally will in just a few days time. If you haven't already, check out this happy little thing that happened last Sunday involving both poets. Then visit and bookmark the site for Jean Dany's City Night Readings, which will be starting up again soon.

Toni Bee On The Air In Cambridge (In Spirit). Thanks to Jean Dany Joachim!

Illustration by George Panagopoulos

WMBR is the radio station for MIT.  Last Sunday at the apartment, my girlfriend called me while she was driving and told me to tune in to the station so I could listen to Poeddiction, a one -hour poetry show which sometimes features local writers.  Last Sunday featured this upcoming Monday's Stone Soup feature Jean Dany Joachim, who was the Poet Populist of Cambridge from 2009-2011.  Towards the end of the show after the host read a poem by the current Poet Populist Lo Galluccio, Joachim asked, "Do you have one by Toni Bee?"

Toni Bee was the Cambridge Poet Populist from 2011-2013, and she currently co-hosts at Stone Soup.  After his insistence (and a quick internet search) Joachim helped close out his interview by reading "Rush," a poem Toni wrote for the late Maya Angelou that was originally published in Oddball Magazine and can be read here.  Better still, you can click this link to download the entire August 3 show.  Joachim brings up Toni about fifty-two minutes and forty seconds in, but the rest of show is well worth listening to.

I was just a facilitator for Toni's poem and I was psyched about this little moment.  Heck, I'm giddy just typing this almost a week later.  I can only imagine how good the actual writer feels about this.  Congrats, again, Toni!  And thanks again to Mr. Joachim, who I hope as many people as possible see this Monday.