Cindy Veach
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    • Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press); Innocents (Nixes-Mate); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press, Oct. 5, 2021)
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Salem State Writer's Series Fall 2017

11/16/2017

 
Writing with the Past: Cindy Veach and Rachel Hall read from their work.
November 16, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Salem State University
Martin Luther King, Jr. Room
Ellison Campus Center
www.salemstate.edu/calendar/writing-past-rachel-hall-and-cindy-veach

Book Launch Party for "Gloved Against Blood"

11/12/2017

 
November 12, 2017  3PM
Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
 
Please join me at the Salem Athenaeum to celebrate the publication of my debut poetry collection Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press). There will be a reading, refreshments, book signing, and abundant quantities of joy!


Poetry Reading - Porter Square Books

11/8/2017

 
Cindy Veach and Vincent Guerra will read from their new books at Porter Square Books.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 7PM
25 Winter Street, Cambridge, MA
www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781933880648
www.portersquarebooks.com/event/cindy-veach-vincent-guerra  

Voices of Poetry Fresh Roasted Poetry III

10/28/2017

 
An evening of poetry and music with Melanie Braverman, Maggie Cleveland, Jennifer Colella Martelli and Cindy Veach. Music By Dana McCoy. Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 6PM. Snowy Owl Coffee Shop. 2624 Main Street (Route 6A). Brewster, MA.
heyevent.co.za/event/mao3emfgawqn6a/voices-of-poetry-fresh-roasted-poetry-iii

New Hampshire Poetry Festival 2017

9/23/2017

 
www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/fest/
The Line: Have We Crossed It? Lowell Building, Room 201
Panelists: Jennifer Jean, Jennifer Martelli, Kevin McLellan, J.D. Scrimgeour, Cindy Veach
We write in exciting times! With the rise of “hybrid” forms—prose poem, listicle, flash—what is the function of the line? If a line of free-verse poetry is “arbitrary,” what does this say about poetry? Is the line more for visual or aural effect? What about white space as a communicative pause? Is the poetic line expelled breath? Can the line be a physical movement? Can it be sexy? Panelists will address these questions, and more, by examining their own techniques and craftsmanship, as well as their favorite poems. This panel will end with a generous Q&A.

From the Mothership: 
Mom Egg Review 15th Anniversary Reading
Lowell Building, Room 101                                       
Panelists: Jennifer Jean, Jennifer Martelli, January Gill O’Neil, Kyle Potvin, Marjorie Tesser, Cindy Veach
“From the Mothership” is a poetry reading celebrating fifteen years of Mom Egg Review, a literary journal focused on motherhood.  MER writers employ varied perspectives, voices, and creative strategies to write about mothering—pregnancy, the body, nurture—and its interplay with other roles: woman, worker, artist, member of families, cultures and communities.The readers, MER contributing poets and editors, will read works that explore diverse experiences of motherhood.

Women Studies Quarterly: At Sea Issue Launch

5/11/2017

 
I will be reading as part of the launch of the "At Sea" Issue of WSQ. "At Sea" examines the gendered dimensions of the contemporary global migrant crisis, martime violence, and environmental destruction. For a preview of the issue visit: http://www.feministpress.org/forthcoming-contents/ 

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 6:00–8:00 p.m
The New School
Room 104 | The Orientation Room
2 West 13th St., New York, NY 10011

RSVP on Facebook or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wsq-at-sea-issue-launch-tickets-33647433379


It's Not About You - Writing the Persona Poem Workshop. Dawn Paul and Cindy Veach. Massachusetts Poetry Festival (day/time TBD)

5/6/2017

 
Sometimes a poem calls for a different voice—one that’s not your own. Writing using a persona can free you to write about difficult subjects or experiences. It can help a poet avoid sentimentality or self-indulgence. It allows more control over the distance between poet and audience, and can give an audience room to breathe. A persona releases you from the constraints of time and space—you can speak as a Civil War nurse, a Neanderthal, or Queen Nefertiti. You can be a space alien or your goldfish. A persona can give you a more immediate kind of authority with being preachy. Or it can just be fun. But how does a poet create an authentic voice, one true in tone, diction and knowledge? In this workshop we will examine personae and how poets successfully create them. We will look at the work of a small, but diverse group of poets. Then we will put on the mask, and write a persona poem of our own. For whom will you speak? How will you answer the call of your poem?

82 Main Street Poetry Series

3/20/2017

 
J. D. Scrimgeour and Cindy Veach
March 20, 2017  7-8 pm
Peabody Institute Library
82 Main Street, Peabody. MA

New Hampshire Poetry Festival

9/24/2016

 
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September 24, 2016. Manchester, NH.

poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/fest/index.php

Morning Garden Writers Retreat

5/7/2016

 
Gloucester, MA

mgretreats.weebly.com/

Volta-cize Your Turn Workshop

4/29/2016

 
​2016 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA.

Read more:

​sched.co/6dvO

www.masspoetry.org
​/cautionturnsahead/
“Love is not all…” writes Millay in one of her best-known sonnets. Six lines later, starting with the word Yet, she begins a damning rebuttal in defense of love. How do you create that turn, the volta as it is called in the sonnet, the fulcrum on which a poem is balanced? How does the turn work to give both formal and free verse poetry tension and conflict? How can you use it to give an out-for-a-stroll poem the energy of an Olympic wrestling match? In this workshop we will examine the turn: how poets create and use it; where to place it; and how to set it up. We will look at the work of a small, but diverse group of poets. Then—it’s your turn! In an exercise that will put a swerve in your verse, you’ll practice writing your own turns.

Three North Shore Poets

7/17/2015

 
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Colleen Michaels, Cindy Veach and Elisabeth Weiss Horowitz.

Friday, July 17, 2015.
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Eastern Point Lit House, Gloucester, MA.


Endings: When is Enough? Workshop

5/3/2015

 
2015 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem MA.

​Read more: sched.co/2P0R 
That’s all, folks! If only it were that easy. But the end of a poem needs to resonate with the entire poem, not just wrap it up. It can comment on the poem or lift it to a new meaning. It can leave the reader or listener laughing or suddenly somber. How do you write an ending that peels out of the driveway like a doomed lover? That drifts down like fog or gives a final firecracker pop? In this workshop we will look at different kinds of endings and how they make the meaning and mood of the poem. You will learn prompts that will help you revise endings. Bring one of your poems to read and we will workshop it just for the ending. The End.

Poets in the Round

3/7/2015

 
Saturday, March 7, 2015. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA.

www.capeannmuseum.org/
​events/poets-round/
Poets in the Round is a fast paced poetry reading in which guest poets choose their favorite poem to read and then tag one of their peers to read a poem that has some connection to the first. 

Writing Your Way Home Retreat

12/6/2014

 
Menden, NJ

mariagillan.blogspot.com/2016/02/writing-your-way-home-weekend-poetry.html

Titles that Work Workshop

4/30/2014

 
2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA.

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

8/13/2013

 
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Middlebury, VT

www.middlebury.edu/bread-loaf-conferences
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  • Publications
    • Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press); Innocents (Nixes-Mate); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press, Oct. 5, 2021)
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