Ballard Street Poetry Journal

Workshops & Events

Events

Thursday, August 14th, 7PM: Book release party for poet, Lea C. Deschenes , Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Square, Worcester, MA. Refreshments served. Free and open to the public. Lea will have copies of her book, "The Constant Velocity of Trains" available for sale and for signing. Reading opens with poet, Dorinda Wegener.

Sometimes Lea Deschenes throws the well-aimed stone of her poetry through the glass houses of hypocrisy and human coldness; sometimes she is the victim of "murderous beauty;" she is at all times intelligent, tender, and wedded to the quest for self-knowledge. There's wisdom at work, and at play, in The Constant Velocity of Trains.

—Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven & Stealing the Language

About Dorinda:

Dorinda Wegener was brought home from Portsmouth Naval Hospital to a tiny apartment on Thornton Street, “Nutfield,” NH— Robert Frost’s first Derry residence prior to his Farm. She has published in Salamander, The Worcester Review, The Larcom Review, Céide (Ireland), and forthcoming in The Marlboro Review. Her work has been displayed at Harvard University’s Lamont Library. Her poem, “Thaw,” placed second in The Worcester County Poetry Association Contest judged by Jeffrey Harrison. Dorinda has read with Tapestry of Voices, Stone Soup Poets, and the Brookline Booksmith Series. She has been an assistant editor for The Summer Home Review Vol. I & II. Her manuscript, All I’s and O’s is a quartet of retrospection, invention, transience, and identity. She currently resides in Wilton, NH with her husband, comic book artist, Scott Wegener, and their widget, Emma Elizabeth.

Workshop Series, Spring 2008

Special thanks to Michael Fisher, John Gaumond, and Emily Ferrara for teaching in our spring workshop series. Please check back after September 1st to see our Fall 2008 workshop series.