In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are hosting an Open Mic Poetry Event with Featured Poet Brian Mosher.

The event is free and open to the public. There is space for up to 14 readers for the open mic

To sign up to read, please call 508-949-6232 or email deb@bookloversgourmet.com.

 

Brian Mosher resides in Mansfield, MA. His work has appeared in Blood and Bourbon, Lily Poetry Review, Literary Underground, Nixes Mate, Anomaly Poetry, eMerge, Esoterica, and others. He received Honorable Mention in the Joe Gouviea Outermost Poetry Contest, and his short story “Fragments” was a winner of the Nikki Hanna Literary Challenge. His most recent books are the collection, “A Muster of Melodious Musings” (2025 Metaphysical Fox Press); Double Vision, a collaboration with artist Becky Haletky (2026); and the chapbook “Relict” (2026 Finishing Line Press).

His website is Phlubbermatic: (www.phlubbermatic.blogspot.com).

 

Relict is the result of the author’s struggle to figure out what the death of his father meant to him. Does a person become something different on the day they no longer have any living parents? A child becomes an adolescent, becomes an adult. A single person becomes part of a couple, becomes a parent, becomes again single either as a widow or through divorce. But we have no word for the stage of life that begins once both a person’s parents have died. This book is an attempt to document the feelings of grief, and to reconnect to a lost past through stories about ancestors, all without losing sight of a hopeful future.

 

Artist Becky Haletky and poet Brian Mosher present their collaborative project, Double Vision. Becky has created gorgeous and colorful collages of diners, historic locations and other attractions (both real and imagined), and Brian has written poems to accompany each one.