Wednesday, May 02, 2012

AT THE BOOK SHOP AT BALL SQUARE: AN EVENING OF POETRY

 

  

AT THE BOOK SHOP AT BALL SQUARE:



AN EVENING OF POETRY


HOSTED BY:  Gil Barbosa, proprietor 
                      Richard Wilhelm, poet

WHERE:         The Book Shop at Ball Square
                      694 Broadway
                      Somerville, MA 02144 

WHEN:           6 PM
                      Wednesday, May 23, 2012

FEATURED READERS:  
           
            DOUG HOLDER is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press.  He teaches writing at Endicott College in Beverly, MA and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.  His own poetry and prose have been in such journals as Rattle, Main Street Review, Houston Literary Review, Poesy, The Boston Globe, and many others.  Holder is the Arts Editor of The Somerville News, and curator of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series.  He holds an MA in Literature from Harvard University.  One of his latest collections of poetry is "The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel" (Cervena Barva Press.)

           JAMES DECRESCENTIS has had poems published in New Letters, The Cafe Review, Ibbetson Street and other literary magazines.  He currently teaches at Bunker Hill Community College and runs the Gallery at the Piano Factory in Boston.

          GLORIA MINDOCK is editor of Cervena Barva Press and The Istanbul Literary Review.  Her poetry has been translated into Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and French.  Widely published, her poetry recently has appeared in Levure Litteraire (France) and in Vatra Veche Romania).

          LUCY HOLSTEDT teaches at Berklee College of Music.  She is a composer, songwriter, choral arranger, playwright , actor, piano player, and vocalist.  Her poetry has appeared in Ibbetson Street, The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the Lyrical Somerville column of The Somerville News.

          DOUG WORTH is a Cambridge poet, a retired teacher, and author of "Catch the Light: Selected Poems, 1963--2003", a book that won praise from such luminaries as Howard Zinn and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 


AN OPEN MIKE WILL FOLLOW THE FEATURED READERS

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