The Powow River Poets Reading Series Schedule

Powow River Poets Monthly Reading Series, 2008

Reading Date     Powow Reader Guest Reader           
January 16th Stephen Scaer  Gordon Lang
February 20th Richard Wollman Danielle George
March 19th Bill Coyle Frannie Lindsay
April 16th Deborah Warren Marcia Karp
May 14th Pat Callan Nemo Hill
June 18th Alfred Nicol Gail White
July 16th James Najarian Melissa Balmain
Aug
Sep 17 Midge Goldberg Jeffrey Harrison
Oct 15 Bob Crawford Bruce Bennett
Nov 19 Don Kimball Bob Clawson

EVENT:           Powow River Poets Monthly Reading Series
DATE:             September 17, 2008
TIME:              7:30 PM
SITE:               Newburyport Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport
READERS:      Jeffrey Harrison and Midge Goldberg
DETAILS:        Free and open to the public; handicapped-accessible; light                        refreshments   
OPEN MIKE:   An Open Mike follows the reading.                       
INFO:              contact mcantor@prodigy.net
  
Award-winning local poet Jeffrey Harrison and Powow member Midge Goldberg highlight the September 17 Powow River Poets reading.

Jeffrey Harrison
is the author of four full-length books of poetry-- The Singing Underneath (1988), Signs of Arrival (1996), Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001), and Incomplete Knowledge, (Four Way Books, 2006)-- as well as of The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems, published in England by the Waywiser Press in 2006. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, in addition to the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. A resident of Andover, and former Roger Murray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy, he is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.  
 
Midge Goldberg, a Powow River Poets member,  lives in Derry, NH.  Her work has been published in such journals as Measure, First Things, Alehouse 2008, Dogwood, The Atlanta Review, Cadenza and Candelabru; and appears in several anthologies, including European Romantic Poetry, Rhyming Poems, and The 2008 Poets' Guide to NH. Her first book, Flume Ride was published in 2006 by David Robert Books. She has an MFA from the University of NH and has taught poetry at Chester College of New England and the Institute of Art in Manchester, NH.  A web and software developer, she currently maintains poetry websites for various poets and also for The Lyric magazine.

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Annual Poetry Contest Discontinued

The Newburyport Art Association, after thirteen years, is discontinuing its Annual Poetry Contest, with thanks to all the editors, publicists and others who have helped to make it a successful and enjoyable yearly event.
 
Our thanks, and our very best wishes, to those poets who will now be submitting their work to other competitions elsewhere!




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