Poetry Open Mic at Concord Bookshop Sunday, April 22
Local author Jim Leahy will be hosting the second annual National Poetry Month Open Mic at the Concord Bookshop this Sunday, April 22 starting at 3 p.m.
In celebration of Earthday, local author Jim Leahy will be hopsting the second annual National Poetry Month Open Mic at the Concord Bookshop at 65 Main St Concord. Jim Leahy is the author of the book “Living in Concord,” a collection of essays, reflections, a poem and a recipe. Leahy also produces the weekly Poetry Moment program on local CCTV channel 8, and is the host of a monthly poetry circle at Debra’s Natural Gourmet where he is employed as manager. “I really came to love poetry only in the last 10 years or so, and particularly came to realize that poems, when read aloud, just come to life in all kinds of ways. The power, the rhythm, the music of sound adds an evocative layer that is simply not there when I read silently. Even when…
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