CERVENA BARVA PRESS WORKSHOP Pastry with Poets: Workshop in Reading Your Poems Aloud, Instructor: Lloyd Schwartz

Information courtesy of Gloria Mindock.

IN THE
CERVENA BARVA PRESS STUDIO

At The Arts for the Armory
Basement, Room B8
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

A Somerville Poet Laureate Event- How to Read Your Poetry (Free Workshop!)

Info courtesy of instructor and Somerville Poet Laureate Gloria Mindock. This Saturday.

IN THE CERVENA BARVA PRESS STUDIO

At The Arts for the Armory
Basement, Room B8
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

More Interviewing

A while back Somerville's poetry laureate Gloria Mindock sat down for Doug Holder's Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer.

June 15: A Taste of Poetry from Somerville

After a feature break last week (one which hopefully won't be repeated again this month. Tonight, we are featuring Ralph Pennel, a poet who is making a name of himself in the academic poetry world. He is guest lecturing at Emerson College and was recently a finalist for Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts. I hope you will not only welcome Ralph Pennel to the mic but give encouraging words to his students, who I am told will be in the audience. It's always exciting when classes full of new poets are brought in to potentially read for the first time. We've already had many new voices over the past few months, but we are always looking for more.

Thank You Doug Holder, Welcome The New Poet Laureate of Somerville

Doug Holder was being praised as the One True Poet Laureate of Somerville years before he joined the committee to pick one.  I'm sure he shocked many people with this move, but he has my respect.  I'm not sure I would have had the guts to walk away from a position of honor that peers in my hometown were clamoring to give me. 

Doug was able to walk away from it and help make a great choice for the newly open position of Poet Laureate of Somerville.  Welcome Nicole Terez Dutton, everyone.

Finalists for the First Somerville Poet Laureate

From Doug Holder:

The finalists for the Somerville Poet Laureate are:

Gloria Mindock (Founder of the Cervena Barva Press)
Nicole Terez Dutton (Cave Canem Award --Winner)
Ralph Pennel ( Fiction editor Midway Journal)

Read this article on the search from the Tufts Daily.  Big props to Doug for working to search for a worthy candidate to fill a position that many thought was rightfully his.

The interview process has already begun.  As much as I know and like everyone on the list, I am rooting for Gloria Mindock, as her Červená Barva Press has done so much great work.  Plus it would coincide perfectly with the press' upcoming ten year anniversary.  I should offer disclosure, I guess, and say that we're friends and she published one of my chapbooks, but there's no way to vote, and it's out of the people's hands now.  Good luck to everyone.