Name: Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Rhett Watts & Susan Roney-O’Brien
Start: 2025-10-29T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: TidePool Bookshop

$Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Rhett Watts & Susan Roney-O\u2019Brien$

Please join us for another special Worcester Wednesday double feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium formerly held at the Starlite in Southbridge (the final one of the year) at TidePool Bookshop on October 29th from 5 pm to 7 pm hosted by Ron Whittle and Paul Szlosek. It will be a full two hours of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets Rhett Watts (author of The Double Nest) and Susan Roney-O’Brien (author of Farmwife) followed by poetry readings by our two features, a short intermission, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader if time permits).Books by both featured poets will be available for purchase in the store that evening. For more information, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or visit our website https//poetorium.home.blog/2019/04/29/the-poetorium-at-starlite-2/
Rhett Watts has poems in many journals including Spoon River Poetry Review, One Art, Naugatuck River Review, and The Worcester Review. She is anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing 2000 and Knitting into the Mystery, as well as The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology. Her books are: Willing Suspension, The Braiding, and The Double Nest. Her chapbook, No Innocent Eye, was co-winner of the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Award. Rhett facilitates creative writing workshops in CT and MA. She lives with her husband and a Siberian cat twenty-five feet from a brook in Massachusetts.
Susan Roney-O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and has published two chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections including Farmwife in 2000 and Legacy of the Last Word in 2016. Nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and published widely, she was awarded the Stanley Kunitz Medal in 2020, is Vice President of programming for Worcester County Poetry Association, curates a monthly poetry venue, The Thirsty Lab, facilitates poetry workshops in area libraries, and is a member of 4X4, a poet/artist collaborative.