Poetry: The Art of Words in June

Information courtesy of Jack Scully.  

 POETRY:THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES

Plymouth Public Library 132 South St Plymouth

Sunday June 3, 2018 @12:45PM

Leo Racicot is an award-winning essay-memoirist and poet. His most recent publications appear in Gastronmica, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian review and the London Review of Books. A native of  Lowell, but has spent much time in Somerville. For a while he worked at the Somerville Theater, and crossed over the to the Republic of Cambridge quite often to live his life. Like Jack Kerouac, also from Lowell. Racicot writes poetry that is spiritual, with ample doses of Catholicism and Eastern Religion. A food writer, poet and movie critic, among other things was befriended by noted food writers Julia Childs and M. F.K Fisher.

Carla Schwartz is a poet, filmmaker, photographer, and blogger. Her poems have appeared in Aurorean, Common Ground, Cactus Heart, Leveler, Long Island Review, Mom Egg, Gyroscope, Mojave River, Naugatuck River, Paddock, Solstice, SHARKPACK, Triggerfish, Sweet Tree, Weatherbeaten, and Ibbetson Street, among others. Her collection, Intimacy with the Wind, is available from Finishing Line Press or Amazon.com. Her CB99videos youtube channel has 1,700,000+ views. Learn more at carlapoet.com, or wakewiththesun.blogspot.com or find her @cb99videos.

Doors open 12:30pm, Poetry Features 12:50pm, Open-mic 1:45pm. Free admission and refreshments.

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Oct 14-Non-poetry features-Timothy Gager, Daniel Lynn Watt & Virginia Young

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