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The Love that Ended Yesterday in Texas - A Voices of Poetry Event

Join us for an afternoon of exceptional and inspiring poetry and music in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Featuring poets Doug Anderson, Tom Daley, Gloria Monaghan, and Suzanne S. Rancourt, and musician Lisa Gross.

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Elizabeth Bradfield - Once Removed

Lisa C. Taylor - Interrorgation of Morning

Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. She has co-edited the anthologies Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020 (with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman) and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology and Poetry (with Marie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Orion and have been widely anthologized. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize from the Publishing Triangle, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, her honors also include a Stegner Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Scholarship. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she lives with her partner on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and balances her work as a writer with work as a naturalist/field assistant, both locally and abroad.

Lisa C. Taylor is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Interrogation of Morning (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press 2023). She also has two short story collections, Impossibly Small Spaces (2018), and Growing a New Tail (2015) and two poetry chapbooks. One of her short stories received the Hugo House New Fiction Award in 2015. Her collaborative collection with Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills, The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, 2011) received the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson honor for Irish literature for both of them at University of Connecticut. Both her poetry and fiction are published in numerous journals and anthologies and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best-of- the-Net. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast (University of Southern Maine. She is the co-director of the Mesa Verde Writers Conference, a presenter for Write on the Sound, and she teaches online for www.writers.com.

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Maya Janson's debut collection, Murmurs & Crush, was published by Hedgerow Books. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Rattle, Lyric, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, Jubilat, and other journals, as well as Best American Poetry. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she has worked as a lecturer in creative

writing at Smith College and as a community health nurse. Gloria Monaghan is a professor at Wentworth in Boston. She has published five previous books of poetry, Flawed (Finishing Line), Ihe Garden, (Flutter Press), False Spring (Adelaide), Torero (Nixes Mate), and Hydrangea (Kelsay). Her poems have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, and River Heron among others.

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Desirée Alvarez is a painter and poet whose work speaks to a mythic human interaction with the natural world. Her work has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Willard L. Metcalf Award, three Artist Fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a European Capital of Culture Award. Her second book of poems, Raft of Flame, was awarded the Omnidawn 2019 Lake Merritt Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, Fence, and The Iowa Review. She received the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award from Denver Quarterly.

In addition to writing poetry and songs, Sara Epstein, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices, including writing, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Sara Epstein's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Amethyst Review, Chest Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Plainsongs, museum of Americana, and others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review. Bar of Rest is her first book of poetry.

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Off Main Gallery

Matt Carrano and Phillip Gerstein - UNCHARTED TERRITORIES

On Exhibit - July 1 - July 19

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 1st at 6 - 8 pm
Carl Banner on piano

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Matthew E. Henry (aka MEH) is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). He has three collections forthcoming in 2023. MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pigeonholes. His publications include Amethyst Review, Baltimore Review, Frontier Poetry, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Ploughshares, The Radical Teacher, Saint Katherine Review, Shenandoah, Tahoma Literary Review, and many others.

MEH's writing shines a black-light on the bed of education, race, relationships, religion, and everything else you're not supposed to discuss in polite company. He has been known to make some people irrationally uncomfortable.

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Off Main Gallery

Carl Banner with poets Mary Ann Larkin & Patric Pepper

Wednesdays at 3 - 4:30pm
June 14, 21, 28

Saturday, June 17th at 5 - 6pm

Sunday, June 18th at 3 - 4:30pm

Sunday, June 25th at 3 - 5pm
with poets
Mary Ann Larkin & Patric Pepper

A musician since childhood, pianist Carl Banner studied with, among others, Harold Zabrack, Leon Fleisher, Leo Smit, and Leonard Shure, and performed in numerous solo and chamber concerts from the age of 14. He was the winner of several piano competitions in St. Louis MO, where he grew up, and in Washington DC, as well as runner-up in a national competition in Texas.  He continued to perform regularly while earning a PhD in cell biology from Harvard University in 1982. In 1998 he and his wife, artist Marilyn Banner, founded Washington Musica Viva, which to date has produced hundreds of chamber music concerts in the Washington DC area and elsewhere. In 2004, Banner retired from the National Institutes of Health in order to devote full time to music. With Musica Viva, he has produced concerts at the Embassies of the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Denmark, Israel, and the European Union, as well as at the Kennedy Center, New York's Czech Center, and the Donnell Library.

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For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

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For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Come celebrate the wonder and beauty of the Outer Cape natural ecosystems at a community poetry reading! Friends of Herring River has invited a few local naturalist-poets to read their inspired works. Anyone who recently published a poem in the Friends' newsletter is also invited to read. Thanks to the generous partnership of Wellfleet Preservation Hall, this event is free and open to the public.

Please Register HERE

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Wellfleet Public Library

For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

For the 19th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Tuesdays May 2 - June 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events