Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival

  • October 11, 2024 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

  • The Overlook

    250 Jackson St
    Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
Ticket Price $22.13-$32.64 This event is now over
Description

Join us at The Overlook for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival! A $20 cover charge is requested per individual event. Day passes are available for $30. Learn more at lowellcelebrateskerouac.org

 

6:00-7:30 pm (Doors at 5:30) Use Poetry: A Lowell Celebrates Kerouac reading and discussion

 

Poets Tanya Grae, Ariella Ruth, and Linda Bratcher Wlodyka will read their work and join poet and UMASS Lowell Associate Professor Maggie Dietz for a discussion of Jack Kerouac’s influence and legacy as a poet.

 

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

― Jack Kerouac

 

Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts, Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. Last summer, she was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires. Her poem, Secret Cottage, was voted “Best in the Berkshires” in 2012. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems, her first full length poetry collection, was published by Human Error Publishing in 2023. She has three self-published chapbooks and her poems appear in a myriad of journals and anthologies. She is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society.

 

Ariella Ruth is the author of the chapbook REMNANTS (Gesture Press, 2019) and was a finalist for the 2017 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. She has a poem engraved on a sandstone monolith in downtown Boulder, Colorado, as part of the West Pearl Poetry Project. She holds an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and works at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

 

Tanya Grae’s debut collection Undoll (YesYes Books) was the winner of the Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by a Literary Press, as well as a Florida Book Award. Selected for Best New Poets 2019 by Cate Marvin, she is the recipient of a Kingsbury Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Kerouac Residency, and the Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. Her poems and essays appear in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and other places. She serves as an editor for the Florida Senate and teaches at Florida State University.

 

8:00 – 10:00 pm Toussaint the Liberator

 

The rhythms of the African diaspora and socially conscious songwriting inform and infuse the musical stylings of Toussaint the Liberator and his band. toussaintheliberator.com

 

 

Date & Time

Fri, Oct 11, 2024 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Venue Details

The Overlook

250 Jackson St
Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 The Overlook
Coco Luna LLC

The Overlook at Mill No. 5 is a multi-use event space, marketplace, and concert venue that is available for private rentals, catered events, community organizing, and more. Booking inquiries can be sent to hello@millno5.com.