THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES Finkelstein, Holder, Sklar Jan 21 7PM

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

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21
7:00 PM/ADMISSION: $4.00
READING AND OPEN MIC

Hosted by: Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock

THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES

Deborah Finkelstein is the editor of Like One: Poems for Boston, an anthology of healing and humorous poems that raises money for The One Fund. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Recent publications include Magnolia, Ibbestson Street, Cradle Songs, and Lumox. She also writes haiku, tanka, and plays. She teaches creative writing.


Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. His work has appeared in Caesura, Northeast Corridor, Main Street Rag, Rattle, the new renaissance, Muddy River Review and others. He teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, and Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. For the last 25 years he has run poetry groups for patients at McLean Hospital. His latest collection of poetry is "Eating Grief at 3A.M." (Muddy River Books)


Dan Sklar teaches writing at Endicott College in Massachusetts. Recent publications include the Harvard Review, New York Quarterly, Ibbetson Street Press, and The Art of the One-Act. His one act play "Lycanthropy" was produced at the Boston Theatre Marathon in 2012 and was reviewed in The Boston Globe. His poem "Flying Cats (Actually Swooping)" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Writing that Risks.

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