Tom Daley's Play, Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants--Friday, May 3, 2013 in Salem, MA

Registration is now available for the one-man version of my play, Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants and the rest of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival (May 3-5, 2013). I will be performing the play on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 2:30 pm in the Sophia Room, Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square W, Salem, MA 01970.

If you're interested in coming, you'll need to register for a spot at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website (http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/). Here are the steps--

1) You'll need to set up a profile (name and e-mail)
2) Go to the schedule for Friday, May 3 from 2:30-3:30 pm and click on the green square with a white cross in it next to Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants.
3) Pay for admission ("Buy a Button") to this and all other events at the festival (May 3, 4, and 5)--$15 general admission, $7 seniors and students. Your name will then be on a list at the door of the Sophia Room at the Hawthorne Hotel (see above) on the day of the show. You should plan to get there 10-15 minutes early. The show will start at 2:30 pm prompt.

Go to the logistics page (http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/pages/logistics) for information about public transportation to Salem from Boston, including commuter rail and MBTA bus. There is also information on parking.

I would encourage you to sign up as soon as possible. I intend to fill all the spots in advance, and the Festival events generally fill very quickly.

Hope you can make it!

Check out all the other exciting events at the Festival, including a performance by Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Troupe on Saturday, May 4 at 11 am at the first floor of the Old Town Hall in Salem. I'll be performing a couple of my poems in that show.

Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Tom Daley

In a letter to the author after the original performance of the play, Judson Evans, director of the Department of Liberal Arts at the Boston Conservatory, wrote, By grounding Dickinson in a dense social context among the Irish servants who surrounded her, you open up the layers and dimensions of social imagination within her work that are denied by the conventional image of Dickinson’s total interiority and reclusion. You allow her poems to unfold new dimensions of social gesture, irony, and exchange. You create an imaginative space in which Dickinson’s poems can be dramatically spoken as complex authentic communication without this seeming stilted or arcane. By presenting a posthumous Dickinson alive in the multiple memories of the servants who surrounded her you avoid reducing her to a poetic cliché and instead preserve the mystery and otherness of her identity.

April 1st: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on April 1st, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me.

April 1st: Dennis Daly Features

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On April 1st, we kick off National Poetry Month with a feature by Dennis Daly.

Dennis Daly lives in Salem, Massachusetts. He is included in a chapbook with two other poets published by Northeasten University Press, entitled 10X3. He has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Ibbetson Street Press published The Custom House, his first full length book of poetry in June, 2012. His second book, a verse translation of Sophocles’ Ajax, was recently published by Wilderness House Press. Daly’s third book is set in Salem Massachusetts, and it will shortly be seeking a publisher. 

March 25th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on March 25th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me.

March 25th: Lo Galluccio Features

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On March 25th, we welcome a feature by current finalist in the Cambridge Poet Populist race, Lo Galluccio.  

Lo Galluccio is a vocal artist, memoirist and poet whose roots lie in the Lower East Side of NYC, though she is a Cambridge native and a Harvard graduate. Lo has released three books in Boston, since returning in 2001: “Hot Rain,” a chapbook with illustrations put out by Ibbetson St. Press, “Sarasota VII” a prose-poem memoir published by Cervena Barva Press and “Terrible Baubles” a chapbook on Propaganda Press. Some of the poems in “Terrible Baubles” were set to music or made into songs for a CD released on Studio 234 records this past year, with piano by Eric Zinman and cello by Mobius artist Jane Wang. Lo has two other vocal CDs – “Being Visited” on the Knitting Factory label in NYC, and “Spell on You” self-released in Boston, an avante jazz and blues CD. Her CDs are available at www.cdbaby.com, on Itunes and Rhapsody and can be heard on Spotify.

Her written work is available at the Grolier bookstore. She is currently a finalist for the Poet Populist position in Cambridge and has a reading with Tom Yuill, the other finalist, at that delirium inducing dive bar, the Cantab, on April 3rd at 9 pm. Her websites are www.logalluccio.weebly.com and www.logalluccio.alalla.com.

March 18th: Da Butcha Shoppe Returns to Stone Soup

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On March 18th, Stone Soup features the return of Da Butcha 'shoppe.

Da Butcha 'shoppe rose from the ashes of The Collective and became the premier Poetry Performance Troupe of New England with their ongoing production of "The Alien Chronicles," the story of Captain Quawn and his crew stranded on Earth when their spaceship, the Smada Salguod, crashed in the northern Maine woods. The crash was witnessed by an Air Force officer, Major Warren Pease, who now pursues the the extraterrestrial band as they attempt to escape from Earth as well as plot world domination, and human subjugation via a chain of porn stores that sells adult toys that control the mind.

Cpt Quawn speaks in Poetry, while Mj Pease uses the lingo of the military.

Da Butcha 'shoppe features, Mr. Ethan Mackler on Bass Guitar, Alan Wilbar as, Mj. Pease, and, Da Butcha, as, the Alien.

Da Butcha 'shoppe, the best thing to happen to Poetry since the invention of the microphone.

March 11th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on March 11th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com