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POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES
The Plymouth Center for the Arts 11 North St, Plymouth
PLYMOUTH, POETRY IS SPOKEN HERE
Sunday February 14, 2016 @ 12 NOON
Poet and playwright Gregory Hischak is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Parts & Labor (Pond Road Press, 2013). His plays have been staged by ACT in Seattle, Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, and Portland Stage (Portland, ME), among others. His stagework has won a Caulder Award for New England Playwrights and a 2015 MCC fellowship for dramatic writing. Hischak is also curator of the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port. He lives in South Yarmouth, MA.
Terry S. Johnson has explored careers as a newspaper advertising clerk, a library assistant and a professional harpsichordist before serving as a public school teacher for over twenty-five years. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has published in many anthologies and journals. Her first book entitled Coalescence was published in 2014 by WordTech Communications and won an honorable mention award in the New England Book Festival.
Her second book, now in progress, is entitled Words I Need in Another Language. It is a memoir in poems about her father’s experiences in Italy during World War II and Terry’s numerous visits to the villages where partisans hid her father from the Nazis when his plane crashed.
MUSIC FEATURE SINGER/SONGWRITER FRED FJ ROUNDTWO MELTZER
Doors open 11:30AM, Music Feature 12:00 noon, Poetry Features 12:45pm open-mic 1:15pm. Free admission and refreshments.
Mar 6 Jim Bronsan & Alix Ann Shaw
Apr 17 Lori Desrosiers & John Ronan
May 1 Ben Berman & Marguerite Bouvard
Jun 12 Susan Becker & Richard Berg
POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES
The Plymouth Center for the Arts 11 North St, Plymouth
PLYMOUTH, POETRY IS SPOKEN HERE
Sunday February 14, 2016 @ 12 NOON
Poet and playwright Gregory Hischak is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Parts & Labor (Pond Road Press, 2013). His plays have been staged by ACT in Seattle, Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, and Portland Stage (Portland, ME), among others. His stagework has won a Caulder Award for New England Playwrights and a 2015 MCC fellowship for dramatic writing. Hischak is also curator of the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port. He lives in South Yarmouth, MA.
Terry S. Johnson has explored careers as a newspaper advertising clerk, a library assistant and a professional harpsichordist before serving as a public school teacher for over twenty-five years. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has published in many anthologies and journals. Her first book entitled Coalescence was published in 2014 by WordTech Communications and won an honorable mention award in the New England Book Festival.
Her second book, now in progress, is entitled Words I Need in Another Language. It is a memoir in poems about her father’s experiences in Italy during World War II and Terry’s numerous visits to the villages where partisans hid her father from the Nazis when his plane crashed.
MUSIC FEATURE SINGER/SONGWRITER FRED FJ ROUNDTWO MELTZER
Doors open 11:30AM, Music Feature 12:00 noon, Poetry Features 12:45pm open-mic 1:15pm. Free admission and refreshments.
Mar 6 Jim Bronsan & Alix Ann Shaw
Apr 17 Lori Desrosiers & John Ronan
May 1 Ben Berman & Marguerite Bouvard
Jun 12 Susan Becker & Richard Berg
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