EVENT: Powow River Poets Monthly Reading Series
DATE: July 11, 2009
TIME: 3:00 PM
SITE: Jabberwocky Books, 50 Water Street
READERS: Rhina Espaillat, Julie Kane, and Antoinette Treadway
DETAILS: Event is free and open to the public; site is handicapped-accessible; light refreshments.
OPEN MIKE: An Open Mike follows the reading.
INFO: For more information, contact mcantor@prodigy.net

POWOW RIVER POETS READING AT JABBERWOCKY BOOKS JULY 11

The Powow River Poets monthly poetry reading series, a Wednesday evening fixture at the Newburyport Art Association for over ten years, has moved to a new time and venue: Saturday afternoons at Jabberwocky Bookshop. Reading on July 11 are widely honored Powow River Poets founder, Rhina Espaillat, award-winning Louisiana poet Julie Kane, and Powow member Antoinette Treadway.

Julie Kane, born in Boston, has lived in Louisiana since 1976. Her most recent poetry collection, Jazz Funeral, is the winner of this year's Donald Justice Award; and Rhythm and Booze, published in 2003, was one of four finalists for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. Among many other recognitions, her poem Used Book won first place in the 2007 Open Poetry international sonnet competition. Additional honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the George Bennett Fellowship in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, two New Orleans Writer-in-Residence terms at Tulane University, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Poetry Award

Rhina P. Espaillat, founder of the Powow River Poets and a long time resident of Newburyport, has published poetry, essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish, as well as translations, most notably of Robert Frost and St. John of the Cross. The most recent of her eleven collections are Playing at Stillness and Her Place in These Designs. She has received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Nemerov Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award, among other national prizes, and has been recognized for her work by the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Culture. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Formalist, Measure, Poetry, Review: Literature & Arts of the Americas, and The Hudson Review, as well as in some fifty anthologies and many websites.

Antoinette (Toni) Treadway is a Rowley-based documentary film maker, and a Powow River Poets member. In 2008, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists for advocacy, technical work, writing, and teaching in her field. She has contributed to television documentaries on PBS and the BBC, and to diverse arts installations, museums and archives including the Smithsonian and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. A participant at the Newburyport Literary Festival since its inception, she organized the Polyphonic poetry reading at the 2009 Festival.

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