Friday, October 14, 2016

Poetry in Plymouth this Sunday

Info courtesy of co-host Jack Scully.

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 October 16, 2016 @ 12 NOON

Miriam O’Neal’s poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in magazines and journals, including AGNI, Southern Poetry Review, Ragazine, Blackbird Journal, Marlboro Review and Poetry International. She completed her MFA in Literature and Writing at Bennington College with a concentration in poetry. She has taught poetry and composition at UMass Dartmouth and teaches private group and master classes in writing as well. She has won an American Literary Translators Association Fellowship for a partial translation of Italian Poet, Alda Merini’s, Poem of the Cross. She was also a finalist in the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants in poetry and in Louisiana Literature’s 10th Annual Poetry competition. Her manuscript, The Worlds We Leave is currently looking for a home.

Ralph Pennel is the author of A World Less Perfect for Dying In, published in 2015, by Cervena Barva Press. Ralph’s writing has appeared in F(r)iction, The Cape Rock, Ibbetson Street, Apercus Quarterly, Monologues From the Road, Right Hand Pointing and various other journals. He teaches poetry at Bentley University and literature at Bunker Hill Community College. Ralph has served as the WLP Dean’s Prize judge, for Emerson College, and the Firman Houghton Award judge for the New England Poetry Club. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and he was a finalist for Somerville Poet Laureate in 2014.

MUSIC FEATURE: Henry Gitter, singer/guitar folk, r&b covers

Doors open 11:30AM, Music Feature 12:00 noon, Poetry Features 12:45pm open-mic 2pm. Free admission and refreshments.

NOV 13- DOUGLAS BISHOP & CHRIS ZAREMBA DEC 11- LORI DESROSIERS & DAVID MILLER

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