November 2019
Ellen Doré Watson & George Kalogeris
Ellen Doré Watson previous director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and named one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century” by the Library Journal has written five books of poetry and many translations from Portuguese. Robert Pinsky described her work as “interrogative, tender, wildly inventive.” Gerald Stern echoed, writing “The poems are wild, delirious…yet the (smart) organizing principle is this mind, ever alert, choosing and sorting.” Her most recent book is pray me stay eager (Alice James Books,…
Find out more »March 2020
2020 Favorite Poem Event
It’s almost time to come together for the second year, to hear about 15 favorite poems presented by members of the community. To submit your favorite poem, download the submission form now to get started. Choose a poem (not one written by you or a family member, that’s the only rule,) and talk about its significance to you, personally. Send your submission in by FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2020. You can look up videos at www.favoritepoem.org for examples.
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November 2020
Jennifer Militello & Chen Chen
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Kevin Prufer, Angela Narciso Torres, and Reginald Gibbons
Hot off the Press, three poets with brand-new books from Four Way Books Zoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books https://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom For more information on the Loom, contact rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. Kevin Prufer, The Art of Fiction In this his eighth collection of poetry, Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing…
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