What:Wake up and Smell the Poetry
When:Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 10:30AM.
Where: HCAM Studio, 77 Main Street, Lower Level, Hopkinton, MA
An open mic for poetry, story and song to follow.
Wake up and Smell the Poetry is a forum and gathering-place for poets, writers/tellers and musicians and takes place before a live audience. The program is also filmed by HCAM Studios crew for later airing on internet/cable tv. The public is welcome, admission is free, we pass the hat for the features. Please rsvp to help us plan for seats/ sign up for open mic or visit our website.
Do come and join. More about our features below.
Rick Beyer
Rick Beyer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a successful author, and a long-time history enthusiast. He is the author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, published by Harper Collins, and described by the Chicago Tribune as “an old fashioned sweetshop full of tasty morsels.” The Greatest Music Stories Never Told is the fifth book in the series. Beyer has made films for The History Channel, National Geographic, the Smithsonian, and others. He is currently working on an independent film entitled The Ghost Army about an extraordinary World War II deception unit that used trickery against the Germans on the battlefields of Europe. A 1978 graduate of Dartmouth, Beyer lives and works in Lexington.
Bonnie Bishop
Bonnie Bishop writes poems about beauty and resilience wherever she can find them: in her garden, the natural world, other people, and thework of making art. After thirty three years of teaching English Language Arts at Full Circle High School in Somerville, she retired in 2006. She’s been a member of the Every Other Thursday Poets for more than twenty years. She’s had poems in The Sow’s Ear, English Journal, Larcom Review, and many other poetry magazines. Local Habitation, her first book, came out in November, 2009.
Cooper and Kenneally
Rick Cooper and Pat Kenneally grew up less than a mile apart in the Boston suburbs in the 50’s and 60’s but only met in 2006 after each had developed a distinctive style. Together they deliver an entertaining mix of roots, folk-rock, rockabilly, country and blues. I hear strains of early rock and roll and ‘The Good’ country (Chet Atkins/Johnny Cash) that we all know and love, along with some folk-pop which is a totally different beast.
–Jeff Root, Root Cellar Studio