Name: The Richard Fox Poetry Series featuring Joe Fusco Jr.
Start: 2025-12-02T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-02T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 156 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester, Ma

The Richard Fox Poetry Series featuring Joe Fusco Jr.

So, I asked myself, as a friend of the late and great Richard Fox, if I wanted to feature at the last installment of The Richard Fox Poetry Series in 2025 and I answered 'Sure!'
It would be really nice to see some of the past features of this wonderful series come support our year-ending event.
Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their Shrewsbury Street location. Please support a locally-owned business with your patronage!
Sign up for the open mic at [email protected]. Limited spots (10) available. Five minutes, please!
Sponsored by the 'Fox Fund' (Worcester County Poetry
Association).
Join the Fun on December 2nd!
Joe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/stand-up poet from Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is the author of five books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “Random Thoughts from a Curmudgeon “ (2023), “Pondering the Pandemic during The Rust years”(2021); “Hmm…That’s Different” (2020); “Three Score” (2014); and “The Lost and Found Essays” (2012), all available at local bookstores and Amazon.
Joe’s musings have appeared in Damfino Press, Ballard Street Poetry, Worcester Review, Asinine Poetry, Soul Lit, and the e-zine Clean Sheets. He was a co-winner of the Jacob Knight Poetry Award in 2002 and was named Best Poet by Worcester Magazine readers in 1999 and 2002.
Joe is a Humor Columnist for Worcester Magazine and the last Worcester Mega-Slam winner in 2017. He features at bookstores, libraries, clubs, and coffeehouses throughout Central Massachusetts and Belgium. He is the host of The Poetry Extravaganza at The Mill in West Boylston and The Richard Fox Poetry Series at Root and Press Café and Books in Worcester.
Joe has taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury, and for adults at the Senior Centers of Worcester, Lancaster, Millbury, and Auburn, as well as Eisenberg Assisted Living, Notre Dame Assisted Living, The Residence of Orchard Grove, Overlook in Charlton, Hillside Village in West Boylston, and Christopher Heights Assisted Living. He taught ‘Humor 102’ for WISE at Assumption University.
He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association.
Joe has lived in lovely Worcester with his better-half Cyndi and their large family for forty years. He is a registered Independent and sleeps with one eye always open.