August 20: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

This coming Tuesday. Information courtesy of Harris Gardner.

THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY
POETRY AT THE CAFÉ
191 HIGHLAND AVENUE
SOMERVILLE, MA

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019
7:00 PM/ADMISSION: $4.00
READING AND OPEN MIC

Hosted by: Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock

THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES

Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz' poems have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed), and her second collection, Intimacy with the Wind, (Finishing Line). Her poem, Anthem, won the May 2019 Lunch Ticket Poetry Contest. Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2.000,000+ views. Learn more - carlapoet.com, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com, or find her @cb99videos.
Photo: Mark Ostow Photography

Wendell Smith was a cofounder of the Proposition, which gave Jane Curtin and Fred Grandy their starts in the theater. He was then on the original staff of the Cambridge Phoenix and the Real Paper. Huston Branch credited him as a co-author for TheUnreasonable American a biography of Frances W. Davis the inventor of power steering. He ran for Cambridge City Council once and received the fewest number one votes of anybody on the ballot, but his number ones were marked deep and provided the margin of victory for Sandra Graham. He won the Sydney Cox Poetry prize at Dartmouth and Robert Creeley gave him an honorable mention in the Kansas Quarterly awards. His poetry has appeared in Ibbetson Street, Constellations, View Northwest, the Lyric and elsewhere

Michael Steffen lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. His publications include Another Chicago Magazine, The Boston Globe, Connecticut Review, Harvard Review, Ibbetson Street and Taos Journal. His first book Partner, Orchard, Day Moon was published in 2014. David Ferry described the book as keen with observation…of what things actually look like, what the wind feels like, how things grow and rot...

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