Poetry:
The Mother of all Good Writing
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time: 2-3:30pm
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church – free event
Chuck O’Neil, Milford Poet Laureate with
panelists Erica Fabri and Joseph Fuqua
Professional writers from business journalists to novelists routinely turn to poetry to lift their game. Poetry—with its vivid images, memorable language, and unusual sentence breaks—is the mother of all good writing. A panel on how you can use poetic imagery and technique to lift the writing you do routinely at work and in business.
Audience: Anyone interested in becoming a better everyday writer.
Chuck O'Neil, Milford Poet Laureate
Chuck O’Neil — a graduate of Providence College, where he edited the literary magazine — has written five poetry collections, most recently better gods. Since 1982 he has lived in Milford, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Celeste. They have four children and three grandchildren. In 2022 he was named the first Poet Laureate of Milford.
Erica Fabri
Erica Miriam Fabri is a NYC-based poet and the author of Dialect of a Skirt (a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize) and Morphology (winner of the Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy Book Prize.) Her poetry has been widely published in magazines, anthologies, and featured in multi-media formats including art installations, short films, and television commercials. She teaches writing at Pace University and for The City University of New York.
Joseph Fuqua
Joseph Fuqua, a graduate of Yale School of Drama is an actor, director, instructor, playwright. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Brighton Beach Memoirs, 110 in the Shade (Lincoln Center), Raft of the Medusa and Yours, Anne . Television credits include:“The X-Files,” “The Profiler,” “Brooklyn South,” “The Pretender,” “Chicago Hope,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Becker”. On film, Joseph appeared in “Ed’s Next Move,” “David Searching,” “Heyday,” and as J.E.B. Stuart in “Gettysburg,” a role he reprised in Warner Brother’s “Gods and Generals”. Awards: The Cat’s Meow ( Drama-Logue Award), All my Sons, Rubicon Theatre (Ovation Award), Hamlet, Rubicon Theatre (Independent Award), The Rainmaker, Rubicon Theatre (Robby Award).
Joseph has directed 15 full-length plays for Rubicon’s FEARLESS SHAKESPEARE Program, and is a proud Company Member of The Rubicon Theatre Company, Ventura, California — for 25 years! He divides his time between Ventura and Milford, Pennsylvania, where recently he directed ‘A Few Good Men’ at the Milford Theater.
