JUNE 18, 2013: THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES

THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES

Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, editor, and professor. Flower Map is her first chapbook (Finishing Line Press; June, 2013). Her poems have been featured in a wide range of publications, including Ibbetson Street and Voices Israel. Ms. Leipziger is the co-editor of Soul-Lit, an online journal for spiritual poetry.

M. A. Schorr's books include Conscious Explanations (Pen & Anvil); Heart's Ladder, a collection of forty sonnets; the book-length renga sequence Recovery: 77 Dream Songs; One On A Side: An Evening with Seamus Heaney & Robert Frost (as editor, with Kevin O'Connor); and, soon to appear, A Poetry Shop Manual. His writing has appeared in periodicals including Poetry Northeast, E-Verse Radio, Battersea Review, and Fulcrum. Schorr currently serves as the Executive Director of the Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence, Massacusetts; and has been teaching at Cambridge College in Lawrence since 2004.

Chris Warner, graduate of the Harvard University School of Education (M.Ed., '97), is an emerging poet, a yoga and meditation teacher, and a sometime-regular at the Cantab Lounge. The author of a micro-chapbook, Strokes (Mostly) in Silence, Chris was selected to attend the 2012 Southampton Writer's Conference as a contributor in poetry with Mary Karr, and her poem, "Engulfed" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2013).

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