Poetry Reading: Poems Inspired by Mari Saxon's "The Fairy Tale That Was Not Told"

Name: Poetry Reading: Poems Inspired by Mari Saxon's "The Fairy Tale That Was Not Told"
Start: 2025-02-01T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-01T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 44 Portland Street, Worcester, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01608

Schedule

Sat Feb 01 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

44 Portland Street, Worcester, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01608 | Worcester, MA

ArtsWorcester and the Worcester County Poetry Association invite you to a reading of poems inspired by photographs in Mari Saxon’s The Fairy Tale That Was Not Told on Saturday, February 1, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. The poetry reading will take place on the seventh floor of the Printers Building in Worcester, MA at 44 Portland Street. Guests are invited to regroup back on the first floor, in the ArtsWorcester East Gallery, to view Mari’s photographs that inspired the poems. The Fairy Tale That Was Not Told is on view in the ArtsWorcester galleries (Jan. 16 - Feb. 16) as part of ArtsWorcester’s Artist Shoebox exhibition series.
A "surrealistic fairytale" is how artist Mari Saxon describes her photographs, rich in storytelling and delightfully up for interpretation. The Worcester County Poetry Association (WCPA) in partnership with the Worcester Writers' Collective (WWC) organized a series of three workshops, which were held during regular WWC meeting hours (Tuesdays from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) at the Jean McDonough Arts Center. The writers used Saxon's artfully staged photos in addition to their own favorite childhood stories, personal lore and literary style to pay homage to The Fairy Tale That Was Not Told, creating and editing work over the course of the three workshops.
The poetry reading event will take place on the seventh floor of the Printers Building, and a slideshow will feature Mari's corresponding photographs that inspired the poems. Then, guests will be invited back down to the first floor galleries to see the photographs on view in the ArtsWorcester East Gallery.
For more information on the event, parking, and to get your free tickets, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-the-fairy-tale-that-was-not-told-tickets-1131176241589?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Worcester County Poetry Association and ArtsWorcester share the goal of advancing the creative energy of Central Massachusetts, and are thrilled to be collaborating and fusing visual and literary art to produce this event.
// Mari Saxon, "The Golem", 2023