Event
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04/24/2018
Location:
Carriage House,
Time: 6:30 PM
Fee Information: Free
Join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month by learning from three accomplished poets! We will explore the possibility of poetry, that most accessible art form, available to all who know a language. Through structured writing experiments and through looking closely at the physical world surrounding us, we will practice following our own feeling and curiosity into poems.
Poets Mary Buchinger, Linda Havilland Conte, and Hilary Sallick have shared poems and supported each other’s development as writers for many years. In this workshop, they hope to include others in the warmth and learning that they get from each other.
The workshop is open to writers with any level of experience. Space is limited, so please call (617)876-4491 or email us to reserve your place!
Mary Buchinger, author of three poetry books, einfühlung/in feeling (forthcoming), Aerialist (2015), and Roomful of Sparrows (2008), is President of the New England Poetry Club and Professor of English and Communication Studies at MCPHS University. She grew up on a small family farm in Michigan, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and earned a doctorate in applied linguistics from Boston University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Cortland Review, DIAGRAM, Gargoyle, Nimrod, Salamander, Slice Magazine, and elsewhere; her website iswww.MaryBuchinger.com
Linda Haviland Conte is the author of Slow As A Poem (Ibbetson Street Press, 2002) and Treasurer of the New England Poetry Club. Her poems are included in the anthologies City of Poets: 18 Boston Voices and Out of the Blue Writers Unite. She won a Cambridge Poetry Award for Best Short Poem, and she received a Somerville Arts Council Grant to lead a poetry-writing workshop at the Somerville Public Library. She is a founding member and occasional editor of Ibbetson Street magazine. Linda recently retired from the Somerville Public Schools.
Hilary Sallick is the author of Asking the Form (forthcoming) and Winter Roses (2017). Her poems have appeared in Two Cities Review, Third Wednesday, Tell-Tale Inklings, and elsewhere. She lives in Somerville where she teaches reading and writing to adult learners. She is Vice-President of the New England Poetry Club.