Lori Desrosiers is the first prize winner in the Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts contest for New England Poets. Her poem "That Pomegranate Shine" was chosen by X.J. Kennedy. To see the poem click on GBSPA PRIZE.
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About the author: Lori Desrosiers grew up on the banks of the Hudson River in NY, but now calls Westfield, Massachusetts her home. Her chapbook Three Vanities is published by Pudding House Press. Her poetry has been published in BigCityLit, The Equinox, Blue Fifth Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, November 3rd Club, Common Ground Review, Gold Wake Press’ five-poem mini-chapbook series and Silkworm. She is the Editor of Naugatuck River Review, a journal of modern narrative poetry, and also publishes Poetry News, an online newsletter of poetry-related events in the CT/Mass. region. She teaches English Composition at Westfield State College and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from New England College.
Recent Readings: Calliope Poetry Series Sunday, November 20, 2011 West Falmouth Library 575 W. Falmouth Hwy West Falmouth, MA (Cape Cod) http://www.calliopepoetryseries.com/
Sunday Poetry at Essalon October 30, 2011, 3:30pm Essalon Cafe, Rte. 9, Hadley, MA Greenfield Poetry Festival October 15, 2011 3pm, World Eye Books 6:30pm Ten Miles Cooperative Greenfield MA Narraganset Library October 6, 2011, 3pm 35 Kingstown Rd., Narraganset RI
Florence Poetry Festival Saturday, Sept. 25, 2011 Florence, MACivic Center Advanced Seminar Participants Reading The Frost Place Friday, August 12, 8pm The Henry Holt Barn The Frost Place, 158 Ridge Rd., Franconia, NH
Feature Poet with Ellen LaFleche Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Greenfield Spoken Word Greenfield, MA
Portland, OR and Seattle, WA Tour May, 2011 March 15, 2011 Featured Reader at Got Poetry Live Blue Slate Coffee 300 Thayer St., Providence, RI 8pm
March 17, 2011 Featured Reader Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY
February 5, 2011 Reading for Naugatuck River Review at the AWP conference 1345 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 4:00 - 6:00 pm
February 20, 2011 Featured Poet at The Poets Asylum WCUW Front Room 910 Main St., Worcester, MA 6:30pm
February 28, 2011 Reading with Naugatuck River Review Deja Brew Coffeehouse 57 Lockes Village Rd., Wendell, MA 7pm
30/30 Reading for Center for New Americans December 2, 2010 Stoddard Hall, Smith College, 7pm Northampton, MA
Winter Holiday Poetry Show December 5, 2010 Hope & Olive Restaurant, 3-5pm Greenfield, MA
Fall Faculty/Student Reading Monday, November 1, 2010 Westfield State University, Scanlon Hall, 5pm Westfield, MA
Featured Reader, with Irene Willis Sunday, November 7, 2010, 2pm Pages Coffee Bar in Conway, MA
With Naugatuck River Review at the Small Press Book Fair at the Somerville News Writers Festival Center for the Arts at the Armory November 13, 2010, 11-4:30 Somerville, MA Moderator, Write Angles Poetry Festival, panel on Narrative Poetry with Magdalena Gomez, Crystal Senter Brown and Ellen LaFleche.
Greenfield Poetry Festival, Saturday, October 9, 2010, Greenfield, MA Florence Poetry Festival, Look Park, Northampton, MA on Sunday, September 26, 2010, at 12:20pm. Free Admission! Featured poet at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, Foot of First St. between Houston & Bleeker, NYC, 4pm on Sunday, September 19, 2o1o. $6 cover charge.
Brockton Library Poetry Series Featured Reader Saturday, August 21, 2010. 2-4pm. Brockton, MA. Bart's Bards, Greenfield, MA Thursday, June 10, 2010 Greenfield, MA Featured reader at Wednesday Night Poetry at the Blue Z, 127 S. Main St. in Newtown, CT, Wed. April 28, 7:30.
Reading with the journal, Naugatuck River Review at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on May 16, 2010 at 4pm. Host of a night of Student Poetry and Music to celebrate National Poetry Month at the Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, MA April 21, 2010 at 7pm.
Wintonbury Library Poetry Series Lori Desrosiers, Featured Reader Thursday, February 18, 2010 Wintonbury Branch Library Bloomfield, CT
Naugatuck River Review Reading Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Broad Street Books, Wesleyan Middletown, CT
Green Street Cafe Poetry Series Lori Desrosiers & Ellen LaFleche Thu. November 5, 2009 Green Street Cafe Green St. Northampton, MA Greenfield Spoken Word Lori Desrosiers & Howard Faerstein Tue. October 20, 2009 9 Mill Street Greenfield, MA
Common Ground Review Reading Wed. October 21, 2009 Western New England College Springfield, MA New England College MFA Alumni Reading Saturday, September 26, 2009 Forbes Library Northampton, MA
O'Shea's Poetry Series and Open Mic (on Cape Cod) Thursday, September 17 Featured: Lori Desrosiers O'Shea's Bar and Grill Route 28, West Dennis, MA
Westfield, MA YMCA Reading Thursday, August 13, 2009 Camp Shepard Goyette Chalet 370 Northwest Road Westfield, MA
Post-MFA Participants Reading Tuesday, July 7, 2009 New England College Simon Center 98 Bridge Street Henniker, NH
April Poetry Month 30 Poems in 30 Days Participants! Wednesday, July 15 in the Quadrangle, by the Library State Street, Springfield, MA
Poetry in the Park - Albany, NY Saturday, July 25, 2009 Lori Desrosiers and George Wallace Poetry in the Park Summer series by the statue of Robert Burns in Washington Park Albany, NY
Lori Desrosiers & Laura Rodley Green Street Cafe Poetry Series Thursday, May 14, 2009 Green Street Cafe 64 Green St. Northampton, MA
"Three Vanities" Book Release Party Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Teapot Gallery, 22 Elm St. Westfield, MA Lori will read and there will be an open mic
Provincetown Poetry Festival Featured Poets Reading Saturday, April 18, 2009 Art House Theater 214 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA http://www.capecodpoetstheater.com/when.html
Wood Memorial Library Series presents Lori Desrosiers and Christine Beck Wood Memorial Library South Windsor, CT Thursday, April 30, 2009
Lori Desrosiers' book of poetry, "The Philosopher's Daughter" is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2013. She has a chapbook, Three Vanities, a chronicle of three generations of women in her family, which was published by Pudding House Press in 2009. Another chapbook, "That Pomegranate Shine" is coming from Pudding House in 2012. Her poem "Les Cigales" was a finalist for the New Millenium Awards in 2011. In 2010, her poem “That Pomegranate Shine” won the Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts Award for New England Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Pirene’s Fountain, BigCityLit, The Smoking Poet, Concise Delights, Blue Fifth Review, Common Ground Review, two of Gold Wake Press’ five-poem mini-chapbooks, the Origami Poetry Project from RI, and several anthologies. She is the publisher and managing editor of Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry. She earned her M.F.A. in Poetry from New England College. She is also a singer/songwriter, and had a CD of original music published in 1998.
A REVIEW of Three Vanities is at: 
