This Week: FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY
April 17th, 2008
During Poetry Month, we’ve featured some of the most famous poets in the English language. They occupy the heights of what many think is a rarified domain not relevant to the average person. But the poets of Florence Poets Society disagree. They declare that “poetry is part of everyone of us”. Based in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Florence Poets Society goes both local and international. Its monthly meetings draw local talent and its annual online poetry contest draw poems from around the world. They publish the best poems in an annual anthology, The Silkworm. We speak with three of the Society’s poets: Tom Clark, Carl Russo and Jim Cahillane. Clark, a firefighter, and Carl Russo, a lawyer, started the Florence Poets Society five years ago.
