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Poet Scott Laundati and musician/poet Tommy Twilite
Twilite is a Massachusetts troubadour who combines music, poetry, exploration and adventure with his performances. He is the co-founder and former director of the Florence Poets Society, former editor of Silkworm and is a Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate. He also hosts the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ Valley Free Radio. His latest chapbook, Kills No Bird is a follow up to his 2021 collection, Fifty Words for Rain. Twilite is well known as someone who can transport an audience to another realm with his words and music. He was honored by the National Baseball Poetry Festival in 2024 for his poem, “The Tools of Ignorance.”
Scott Laudati runs Bone Machine, a punk rock press, from his apartment in NYC with his dog, Josie. He is the author of Play The Devil (novel) and RAINBOW ROAD (poetry). His essays/poems/short stories have been published by The Columbia Journal, The Stockholm Review, Hobart, The Belfast Review, The Adirondack Review and others. Laudati has won the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award and The Stark Award in Fiction. Follow him for his ruminations on pizza & existentialism published yearly by X-R-AY magazine @ScottLaudati. This event begins at 7 p.m. Suggested donation: $10.00. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to be in the open mic. Age 16 and up.