Thursday, March 01, 2018

Poetry: The Art of Words This Sunday, March 4

Information courtesy of Jack Scully.

POETRY:THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES
Plymouth Library 132 South St Plymouth Otto Fehlow Room
 
SUNDAY MARCH 4, 2018 @1PM

ALICE KOCIEMBA is the author of Bourne Bridge (Turning Point, 2016). Recent poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Comstock Review, Salamander, and in the anthology Like a Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity. As founding director of Calliope—Poetry for Community, Alice also facilitates a monthly Poetry Discussion Group at the Falmouth Public Library. She was Guest Editor of the Cape Cod Poetry Review and Common Threads, the poetry discussion project of Mass Poetry. Alice is the first poet to receive a Literacy Award from the Cape Cod Council of the International Reading Association for promoting literacy through poetry.

FRED MARCHANT
is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (2017). Earlier books include The Looking House, Full Moon Boat, and House on Water, House in Air. His first book, Tipping Point, won the 1993 Washington Prize, and was reissued in a 20th anniversary second edition. Marchant has translated works by Vietnamese poets Tran Dang Khoa and Vo Que. He has also edited Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford. An emeritus professor of English, he is the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center in Boston.

Doors open at 12:30PM, Features begin at 1:05PM, Open-Mic

2:05PM

Free admission, parking and refreshments.



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