Sunday, February 27, 2011 Event: Reading Time: 4:00 PM Place: Unitarian Universalist Society of Rockport, 4 Cleaves Street, Rockport MA 01966
Poetry, Fiction, Memoir Reading Mary Bonina, Susan Hand, and Joe Rukeyser
Saturday, April 30, 2011 Event: Women Words Writers Workshops Time: Mary's Poetry Panel (with Eve Rifka) on Publishing @ 11:00 a.m., Mary's Poetry Workshop @ 1:00 PM, Presented as part of an all-day (8:00 - 4:00 P.M.) workshop program Place: Room 115, Kinicutt Hall, Salisbury Laboratories, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Women Words Writers Workshops (for Men and Women), a benefit for domestic violence programs. YWCA of Central Massachusetts: Online Registration www.ywcacentralmass.org. Registration Fee: $55 adults; $25 students -- includes light breakfast and lunch
Saturday, May 14, 2011 Event: Omen: Massachusetts Poetry Festival for "Poets with New Books" Program Time: Noon Kickoff Place: 184 Essex St., Salem, MA
Mary reads from Clear Eye Tea in the first half hour of the program. Other poets read sequentially through 4 P.M. (see www.masspoetry.org for full festival info)
Tuesday, June 8, 2011 Event: Writer's Room of Boston Inc. Annual Reading Time: 7:00pm Place:Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles Street, Boston MA, 02114
Mary reads from her novel-in progress. Anna Gray Fischer, Bob Dall, and others from the Writer's Room of Boston, Inc. also featured.
Monday, August 1, 2011 Event: Reading and Workshop Time: 3:00 PM workshop, 6:00 PM reading Place: Peavey Memorial Library, Eastport, Maine
Mary will be doing a joint workshop and reading with Mark Pawlak. The afternoon event is a poetry workshop for teenagers. Mary will read from her new book, Clear Eye Tea.
Friday, September 23, 2011 Event: Seminar Place: Longy School of Music of Bard College, 1 Follen Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Speaking on the process of poetry, Mary addresses the Conservatory Composition seminar led by Jeremy Van Buskirk (Not a public event-- seminar students only).
Sunday, October 2, 2011 Event: Reading Time: 3:00 PM (preceded by 2:30 social with refreshments) Place: Del Rossi's Trattoria, Route 137, Dublin, New Hampshire
Mary reads from Clear Eye Tea. Chard De Niord reads also. (Del Rossi's is located in an 18 room farmhouse on 12 acres in the scenic 1/4 mile North of Rt. 137 after junction of rts. 137 and 101, Dublin.)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Event: First and Last Word Poetry Series Time: 6:30 PM Place: Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
Admission is $4. Mary will be reading with Jennifer Jean and John Flynn.