Wednesday, August 15, 2012

August 21st: The First and Last Word Poetry Series: Linda Bamber, Miriam Levine and Chad Parenteau

Just got the information for this.  I'm a last minute entry, but it's still nice to finally go to this venue, especially since I'll be performing alongside Miriam Levine, one of my writing teachers from college.






THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY POETRY AT THE CAFÉ
191 HIGHLAND AVENUE
SOMERVILLE, MA

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st
7:00 PM/ADMISSION: $4.00
READING AND OPEN MIC
Bass Guitarist: Ethan Mackler
(accompaniment optional on open mic)

Hosted by: Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock

Linda Bamber teaches in the English Department of Tufts University. Her short fiction collection, Taking What I Like, will be published this fall by Black Sparrow/Godine. She is the author of a poetry collection, Metropolitan Tang (Black Sparrow/Godine) and a critical book on Shakespeare, Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare (Stanford University Press). Her poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in such places as The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, The Nation, Raritan, The New York Times Book Review and Ploughshares.

Miriam Levine's books include: The Dark Opens, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, and In Paterson, a novel. Her memoir Devotion will be reissued in paperback this year. Her work has been published in The American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review. Levine lives near Boston and in South Beach.

Chad Parenteau is the current host and organizer of the Stone Soup Poetry series in Cambridge. His poems appear in the bilingual Albanian anthology Sounds of Wind: New American Lyrics and the forthcoming Stone Soup Presents: Fresh Broth. His forthcoming collection is Patron Emeritus from Foothills Publishing.

The Center for the Arts is located between Davis Square and Union Square. Parking is located behind the armory at the rear of the building. Arts at the Armory is approximately a 15 minute walk from Davis Square which is on the MTBA Red Line. You can also find us by using either the MBTA RT 88 and RT 90 bus that can be caught either at Lechmere (Green Line) or Davis Square (Red Line). Get off at the Highland Avenue and Lowell Street stop. You can also get to us from Sullivan Square (Orange Line) by using the MBTA RT 90 bus. Get off at the Highland Avenue and Benton Road stop.

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