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WINTER SERIES

2011-11-28T08:47:00.000-08:00

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POETRY BY

VERMONT POET LAUREATE SYDNEY LEA

& BECKY D. SAKELLARIOU

SATURDAY NIGHT

DECEMBER 10, 8P

@THE STARVING ARTIST, KEENE, NH

$5 SUGGESTED

DON'T FORGET > POETRY BOOKS MAKE FOR A GOOD READ & AN IMPRESSIVE HOLIDAY GIFT.

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2011-06-14T11:34:00.000-07:00

SATURDAY J U L Y 16 8 PM

THE STARVING ARTIST, DOWNTOWN KEENE, NH

> POETS <

NOTTOBEMISSED

< james shea > nicole trigg < ewa chrusciel >

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, and Verse. A former research fellow at Utsunomiya University in Japan, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools.

Nicole Trigg lives in Brooklyn, binds and repairs books, and co-curates the CROWD reading series. Writing is featured in Flying Fish, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Love Among the Ruins, and on the website Ink Node.

Ewa Chrusciel writes both in Polish and English. In 2003 Studium published her first book in Polish. Her second book in Polish: Sopilki came out in Dec 2009. She has won the 2009 international book contest for her book in English, Strata, which was published with Emergency Press in March 2011 in the United States. Her poems have appeared in three anthologies and were also featured in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Jubilat, Spoon River Review, Aufgabe, Spoon River Review, Omnidawn blog, Process, Lana Turner, Mandorla, Rhino, American Letters and Commentary, Poetry Wales (GB), Aesthetica (GB). Her translations of poetry appeared in numerous journals and two anthologies of Polish poetry in English translations: Carnivorous Boy, Carnivorous Bird and Six Polish Poets. She is a Professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College.

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2011-03-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

APRIL 16 2011

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Saturday, 8 pm

the Starving Artist Gallery
Downtown Keene, NH

suggested: $5

√out POETS

IVY PAGE

TUCKER SAMPSON

JENN MONROE

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Ivy Page is a poet whose poetry has been described by Ross Gay as, "passionate, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious poems, (which) always have a deep and generous intelligence." She lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters. Ivy graduated from Plymouth State University with a BA in English and minor in Medieval Studies, and went on to complete her MFA in Creative Writing at New England College. She teaches at a number of colleges throughout New Hampshire. She is the editor and founder of Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine. Ivy runs two open mics for poets in New Hampshire because she believes that poetry needs to be heard! Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies nationally, her first book Any Other Branch, will be available through Salmon Poetry of Ireland in March 2012. Her second book, Elemental, will be out with Salmon Poetry in 2014. Find out more about Ivy at: www.poeticentanglement.com

Tucker Sampson was born in New York, raised in Connecticut, and now lives and works in New Hampshire. He works as a quote unquote Freelancer Teacher, where he enjoys shaping the minds of the youth. Tucker recently received his MFA in Poetry from New England College. He advises and acts as an Associate Editor for the Henniker Review. A literary publication to which

he contributes.

Jenn Monroe strives to be a poet of love, in all its forms. She has faith in the world, despite its many failings, and enjoys guiding students at Chester College of New England on their own journeys through writing. Jenn has seen her work most recently accepted by The Lindenwood Review, Danse Macabre, Sakura Review, and The Chamber 4 Literary Magazine. Jenn holds a bachelor's degree from St. Bonaventure University, a master's degree from The College of Saint Rose, and a master's of fine art degree in poetry from New England College.

2011-01-20T13:21:00.000-08:00

series II

2010-05-26T11:14:00.001-07:00

FALL09!
saturday, november 21, 8pm

featuring ::

WALTER E. BUTTS, MANCHESTER, NH
NH POET LAUREATE

Walter E. Butts, the 2009-2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate. He is the author of eight poetry collections, including Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and the chapbooksSunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006) andWhat to Say if the Birds Ask (Pudding House, 2007). The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations, he teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.

MICHAEL ANTONUCCI, BRATTLEBORO, VT
Michael Antonucci’s creative and scholarly work can (or will soon) be found in publications includingArkansas Review,African-American Review,Callaloo,Cortland Review,Byline,Cold Mountain Review,Near South, and VIA. A selection from his longer poem “BAKER BOWL” was included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century(CRACKED SLAB, 2007). He is part of the Jimmy Wynn Ensemble, a Chicago collaborative writing experiment and currently working on a series of poems called “Halogen Martyrs.” His favorite element is Hassium.

series v :: winter

2010-05-26T11:11:00.000-07:00

. january 29 . 2011

saturday night,
7pm
$5 suggested donation

maggie MARTIN

tim MAYO

kate GLEASON

Maggie Martin is currently working on her manuscript, “The Woman Downstairs,” in her new home of Henniker, NH when she isn’t visiting with her grandchildren in Keene. For 25 years, as a published poet, educator, and performer, she provided children and adults with opportunities for self-expression and healing in her native Northeastern PA; for ten of those years she was Poet-In Residence at the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA. A former Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she was a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Radio Theatre Fellowship; a PCA Performance Grant for “Maggie Martin and Friends Presents: Women’s Work in Five Movements”- featuring poetry, music, and visual art; and a PCA/Monroe County Council of the Arts Partnership Grant for her International/Intergenerational Poem Quilt Project. Prior to her move to New Hampshire, she was a rostered artist through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and worked as a Poet-In- Residence in schools and programs in that state.

Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. Among the many places his poems and reviews have appeared are Atlanta Review, The Brattleboro Reformer, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. He was a top finalist for the 2009 Paumanok Award and has just been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he is a member of the Author/Planning Committee for the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Kate Gleason is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, Measuring the Dark (selected by Phillis Levin as the winner of the 2008 First Book Award at Zone 3 Press) and two chapbooks of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Verse Daily, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Ekphrasis, Boomer Girls, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of writing fellowships from the NEA/Ragdale Foundation artist colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Formerly the editor of Peregrine literary journal and a poet in the schools, she leads writing workshops, retreats, and seminars. www.kategleason.net

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JUNE 12,

SATURDAY NIGHT

8 PM

$5 suggested donation

featuring new york city poetesses:

page hill STARZINGER
Page Hill Starzinger lives in downtown Manhattan, and her poetry has been published inColorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review,Pleiades, TriQuarterly, Volt,Fence and Reconfiguations. Mary Jo Bang selected her manuscript,Unshelter, for the 2008 Noemi Press chapbook prize.

REGAN good

Regan Good is the author of two chapbooks, The Imperfect (2005) and The Book of Nature (2009). Her poems have been called “weird Nature poems” that exhibit a “skeptical awe.” Poet Geoffrey Nutter wrote of the poems in the The Imperfect, “At times richly baroque, at other times modern as a new pin, associative and open-ended yet full of conviction, the poems here "compose a place from which to speak," building a vision of a world that is at once painfully cruel and unknowably gorgeous.” She has two unpublished full-length collections, The Atlantic House and The Needle, and is working on a third. She’s a graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn.

Photo: Marion Ettlinger

joanna

PENN COOPER

Joanna Penn Cooper's poems and short prose pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in the journals Boog City, Opium, elimae, Ping Pongand Poetry International, and a collaborative poem she wrote with Todd Colby appears in the most recent Lungfull! Magazine. Her chapbook, Mesmer, is available from Dancing Girl Press. Joanna has earned an MFA from New England College and a Ph.D. from Temple University. She lives in New York City, where she is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University.

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2009-08-13T12:10:00.000-07:00

series III

!S P R I N G10

mark your calendars POET PEEPS

thursday,

april 29, 2010

7pm

Pat Fargnoli

Patricia Fargnoli the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her newest book isThen, Something (Tupelo Press, fall 2009). Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit(Tupelo Press, 2005) won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award judged by Mary Oliver.

“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a Macdowell

Colony fellowship. She’s been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Arts, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Connecticut Review, Margie, Massachusetts Review, etc. She currently resides in Walpole, NH.

Martha Carlson-Bradley

Martha Carlson-Bradley has published a full-length book, Season We Can't Resist (WordTech, 2007), and two chapbooks, Beast at the Hearth(Adastra, 2005) and Nest Full of Cries (Adastra, 2000). Her poems have been published in many literary magazines, including New England Review, Marlboro Review, Carolina Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Zone 3, and in anthologies, such as The Poets' Grimm (Story Line Press, 2003). Her awards include the Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, a grant-in-aid from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Gretchen Warren Award from the New England Poetry Club. Carlson-Bradley has recently joined the faculty of the MA in Professional Writing program at New England College and will teach at the 2010 Frost Place Festival.

Martha Carlson-Bradley: http://mcarlson-bradley.com/

NEC MA in Professional Writing:
http://www.nec.edu/graduate-and-professional-studies/ma-in-professional-writing/

Frost Place Festival: http://www.frostplace.org/html/festival_tuition.html/

for more info contact | shesaidsomething@gmail.com

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series II

2009-08-12T19:50:00.000-07:00

FALL09!

saturday, november 21, 8pm

featuring ::

WALTER E. BUTTS, MANCHESTER, NH

NH POET LAUREATE

Walter E. Butts, the 2009-2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate. He is the author of eight poetry collections, including Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and the chapbooksSunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006) andWhat to Say if the Birds Ask (Pudding House, 2007). The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations, he teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.

MICHAEL ANTONUCCI, BRATTLEBORO, VT

Michael Antonucci’s creative and scholarly work can (or will soon) be found in publications includingArkansas Review,African-American Review,Callaloo,Cortland Review,Byline,Cold Mountain Review,Near South, and VIA. A selection from his longer poem “BAKER BOWL” was included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century(CRACKED SLAB, 2007). He is part of the Jimmy Wynn Ensemble, a Chicago collaborative writing experiment and currently working on a series of poems called “Halogen Martyrs.” His favorite element is Hassium.

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james shea :: chicago, il

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named as a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Chicago Sun-Times. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Boston Review, jubilat, and Verse. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review, Circumference, and Gin’yu. A former research fellow at Utsunomiya University in Japan, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago.

douglas piccinnini :: brooklyn, ny

Douglas Piccinnini lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where he curates the crowd reading series. His work has appeared in Lana Turner, Boog City, Verse, Jacket and other journals.

mary-catherine jones :: henniker, nh

Her work has appeared, or will appear, in Poetry International, elimae, Scapegoat Review and the WebDelSol for a critical essay, Poetry as Prayer: The Vertical Address as Considered in Three Distinct Voices. She will be Artist-in-Residence at Hopkinton Independent School, Hopkinton, NH in 2010. Her commercial work for clients like Target, Aveda and Southwest Airlines has appeared in numerous awards shows and design annuals like Communication Arts, How and Print.

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