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Rich Boucher

Feature date(s): 04/23/2007

Rich Boucher is a light-headed neobeatific, brutalist performance poet using only his mouth and a microphone to channel lagomorphic demon prayers. Continuously active on open-mic and coffeehouse stages since the fall of 1991. Founding member of the Worcester Poetry Asylum (long live 38 Harlow Street). Member of both the 1995 and 1996 Worcester, Massachusetts teams and Worcester Phoenix Magazine's 1998 Reader's Poll winner for the title of Best Local Spoken Word Performer. Member of the 2001 Washington D.C. National Poetry Slam Team. A former guest speaker and performer at numerous educational institutions, including Washington College, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Delaware, and the Cab Calloway School for the Performing Arts. One-time guest educator at The Ferris School for Boys in Wilmington, Delaware. Some of Boucher's work has been published in small print magazines, and some of his writings have been published online as well. Seven-year host of the Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mike and Slam in Newark , Delaware. Passed the torch of host in November of 2004. Rich is currently a regular performer (and admin group member) at the Delawhere? Open Mic & Slam Wednesday nights at the Crimson Moon Tavern in Wilmington, Delaware.

Page influences: e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, Charles Bukowski. Stage influences: Bill MacMillan, Sean Shea, Marc Smith, Lea Deschenes.

Pay a visit to his blog, if you like, at mannabozo.wordpress.com.