What the World Needs Now: A Generative Poetry Workshop with the Fine Arts Work Center
What does the world need now—and how can poetry respond?
Join me September 22–26 for What the World Needs Now: A Generative Poetry Workshop with the Fine Arts Work Center. Over five evenings, we’ll write, read, and reflect together, creating new poems that offer care, clarity, and connection in uncertain times. This supportive, creative space is open to poets at any stage—whether you’re just beginning or looking to deepen your practice.
Let’s write toward what matters most.
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September 2025 Reading Dates
September 16 • Newton Free Library Poetry Reading and Open Mic w/ Martha Collins and Steven Ratiner, Newton, MA
September 17 • Boston Authors Club Awards Ceremony, Chestnut Hill, MA
September 20 • Virginia Literary Awards Celebration Richmond, VA
September 22-26 • What the World Needs Now: A Generative Poetry Workshop w/ Fine Arts Work Center (virtual)
May 2025 Reading Dates
May 8 • The Thursday Poets Present, GALA Arts, Lynn, MA
May 14 • Poetry Soup, Newburyport High School
May 20 • The Notebooks Collective (Virtual), Conversation w/ Richard Hoffman
May 28 • Poetry by the Sea Award Series Reading
May 31-June 1 • Massachusetts Poetry Festival
5/31: Panel w/ Lesley Wheeler, Anna Maria Hong, and Oliver de la Paz
6/1: Mass Book Awards 25th Anniversary Reading
April 2025 Reading Dates
🗓️ April 6 – I Celebrate You: Salem Poets on One Another’s Work, Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA
🗓️ April 10 – The Thursday Poets Presents, GALA Arts, Lynn, MA
🗓️ April 24 – Yeats Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, B&N Union Square, NYC
🗓️ April 26 – lala books w/ Jennifer Jean, Jennifer Martelli & Kevin McLellan, Lowell, MA
🗓️ April 29 – Porter Square Books w/ Enzo Silon Surin, Boston Edition
March 2025 Reading Dates
March 6 • Madwomen in the Attic Generative Writing Workshop (Virtual)
March 13 • Menino Arts Center w/ Alexander Kern and Annie Pluto, Hyde Park, MA
March 27-30 • AWP LA
March 28 • CavanKerry Press – Glitter Road Book Signing, 1 p.m.
February 2025 Reading Dates
Join me for these upcoming February dates!
February 2 • Wicked Good Poetry Salon, Wicked Good Books, Salem, MA
February 4 • North American Review/Invisible Strings Reading (virtual)
February 7 • North Shore Young Writers Conference, Beverly, MA
February 24-25 • Westminster Poet Series, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT
November-December 2024 Reading Dates
November 1 • Westover School, Middlebury, CT
November 4 & 6 • Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
November 14 • GALA Reading, Lynn, MA
December 3 • Book Launch: Invisible Strings Anthology: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift (virtual)
December 11 • Pours and Poetry, The Bottle Shop, Beverly, MA
December 12 • CavanKerry End-of-Year Author Reading (virtual)
October 2024 Reading Dates
October 2024 Reading Dates.
October 13 • Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry w/Susan Rich (virtual)
October 17-19 • Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT w/Susan Rich
October 29 • Boston University
October 30 • Wild and Precious Life Series (virtual)
September 2024
September 2024 Reading Dates
September 5 • The Thursday Poets Reading Series, GALA Arts, Lynn, Massachusetts
September 8 • Hudson Valley Writers Center (virtual) workshop
September 14 • Mississippi Book Festival, panel: Divining the Deep South: A Three-Genre Conversation w/ Kate Medley, Boyce Upholt, and John T. Edge
September 25 • Brandeis University w/ Krysten Hill, Waltham, Massachusetts
September 27 • Essex Country Cultural Summit, Beverly, Massachusetts
June/July 2024 Reading Dates
Summer Reading Dates✨😎
June 6 • The Thursday Poets Present, GALA Arts, Lynn, MA
June 8 • Salem Arts Fest w/ The Thursday Poets, Salem, MA
June 26 • Amesbury Poetry Series, John Greenleaf Whittier Home, Amesbury, MA
June 28 • Young Writers Workshop, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
July 5 • Marblehead Festival of Arts, w/Enzo Silon Surin, Marblehead, MA
July 12 • Summer Salon: Three Poets in Conversation With America w/ Enzo Silon Surin and Leah Umansky, Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA
May 2024 Dates
January Gill O’Neil’s Glitter Road dates, May 2024.
Join me for these terrific spring Glitter Road readings!
May 3 • The Word at Workshop13!, Ware, MA
May 7-8 • Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
May 18 • Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, Greensboro, NC
May 23 • Poetry by the Sea, Madison, CT
May 25 • Poets in Conversation: A Zoom Poetry Series Hosted by Phyllis Klein w/ Jennifer Martelli
May 31 • Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents w/ Eileen Cleary
Concord Poetry at the Library Series
Concord Poetry at the Library Series. Sunday, February 4, 3:00-4:15 pm. The Goodwin Forum
A Great Day in Poetry - This Is the Honey
Boston, MA
7:30pm PT
Brookline Booksmith at the Public Library of Brookline: Coolidge Corner
Featuring: Joshua Bennett, Jarita Davis, January O’Neil, Pamela Taylor
February 2024 Dates for Glitter Road
Join me at one of the following February 2024 events.
Feb 4 • Poetry at the Library, Concord, MA
Feb 9 • AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO: CKP Book Signing 11 a.m. / Habitat Contemporary 6-8 p.m. / PH Coffee 7:30-9 p.m.
Feb 13 • Endicott College, Beverly MA
Feb 15 • CKP Virtual Launch w/ Diane Seuss
Feb 16 • Soul Bone Literary Festival, Dear Human at the Edge of Time (virtual)
Feb 20 • Soul Bone Literary Festival w/ Susan Rich (virtual)
Feb 22 • Copper Dog Books, Beverly, MA
Feb 23 • NYU Alumni Reading w/ J.D. Debris
Feb 25 • Hudson Valley Writers Center w/ A.H. Jerriod Avant, Lilian-Yvonne Bertram, & Carlie Hoffman
Feb 27 • Two Sylvias Virtual Workshop
Feb 29 • Grolier Poetry Book Shop w/Colleen Michaels & Kevin Carey
The Monthly Muse with James Crews
Join me as I visit James Crews for The Monthly Pause.
In a Green Shade: An Evening of Poems in the Garden at Long Hill
Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
"Leaning Toward Light" Poetry Reading
“Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them”
The Thursday Poets – Inspired by Word at @galleriesatlynnarts
Join The Thursday Poets at the Galleries At LynnArts (GALA) for a poetry reading ahead of their pop-up gallery “Inspired by Word.”
Boston Poetry Marathon 2023
The Boston Poetry Marathon: A Summer Poetry Tradition in Boston Since 1998
Chautauqua Workshop
Lean into Joy - Poetry workshop with January Gill O’Neil - Chautauqua Literary Arts
Favorite Poem Project - Mass Poetry Festival
Join me and an amazing array of talented poets and poetry lovers as we celebrate 25 years of Favorite Poem Project! is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
