12/18: Aguero, Blake, and Hoffman at the Armory

THE FIRST AND LAST WORD POETRY SERIES
Hosted by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012
7:00 PM/ADMISSION: $4.00

About the readers:

Kathleen Aguero's poetry collections include Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth, Daughter Of, The Real Weather and Thirsty Day. She has also co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press and is a poetry editor of Solstice Literary Magazine. She teaches at Pine Manor College in both the undergraduate and low-residency M.F.A. programs.

Michelle Blake has published poetry and essays in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Seneca Review, More, The New York Times and a number of other publications. She is also the author of three novels-The Tentmaker, Earth Has No Sorrow and The Book of Light. Blake has taught writing at Tufts University, Stanford University, Warren Wilson College and Goddard College. She received a MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a MFA from Goddard.

Richard Hoffman is author of the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Emblem. He is also author of the memoir Half the House, and the short story collection, Interference and Other Stories.

An open mic will follow the reading.

The Center for the Arts is located between Davis Square and Union Square at 191 Highland Avenue. Parking is located behind the armory at the rear of the building. Arts at the Armory is approximately a 15 minute walk from Davis Square which is on the MTBA Red Line. You can also find us by using either the MBTA RT 88 and RT 90 bus that can be caught either at Lechmere (Green Line) or Davis Square (Red Line). Get off at the Highland Avenue and Lowell Street stop. You can also get to us from Sullivan Square (Orange Line) by using the MBTA RT 90 bus. Get off at the Highland Avenue and Benton Road stop.

Class Act Poets, a reading at the Armory

7 PM, Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Center for the Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA

Reading on this occasion will be: Betty Barrer; Denise Provost; Anthony Majahad; Nellie Goodwin; Adnan Adam Onart; Audrey Henderson; Mary Buchinger; and Bob Brooks.

About the group
Class Act is a group of poets who are students in classes conducted by poet Susan Donnelly, author of “Eve Names the Animals,” “Transit” and “Capture the Flag.” Class Act poets have published books and chapbooks, won awards from The New England Poetry Club and elsewhere, are published in many journals, and are active in groups such as the Jamaica Pond Poets, Bagel Bards, C.R.E.W., and the Boston Poetry Union. Admission is free. For more information and samples of Class Act work visit their website at https://sites.google.com/site/classactpoets.

August 16th reading with Collins, Johnson, and Sasanov

The First and Last Word Poetry Series, curated by Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock, is hosting a reading on August 16th -- 6:30 PM., at The Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, Mass. Admission: $4. There will be an open mic, following the featured readers:

Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award, as well as four earlier collections of poems and two collections of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. Other awards include NEA, Bunting, Merrill, Witter Bynner, and Lannan Foundation grants. Two new collections of poems are forthcoming: White Papers (Pittsburgh,2012) and Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2014). Collins is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine.

Robert K. Johnson was born in New York City and later lived on Long Island. He obtained a B.A. from Hofstra College (now University); and earned graduate degrees from Cornell University and Denver University. Now retired, he was a university professor of English, mostly at Suffolk University in Boston, for many years. He is currently submissions editor of Ibbetson Street. Many of his poems have appeared individually in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. Five full-length collections of his poetry, the most recent being From Mist To Shadow, have been published, plus two chapbooks.

Catherine Sasanov's Had Slaves (Sentence Book Award, Firewheel Editions) was recently named a 2011 Must Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She is also the author of Traditions of Bread and Violence, All the Blood Tethers, and the theater work, Las Horas de Belen: A Book of Hours, commissioned by Mabou Mines. Her current work, funded in part by the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, explores what rushes in to fill the void when evidence of slavery's past has been eradicated from the landscapes on which it once thrived.

The Center for the Arts is located between Davis Square and Union Square. Parking is located behind the armory at the rear of the building. Arts at the Armory is approximately a 15 minute walk from Davis Square which is on the MTBA Red Line. To get there by bus, take either the 88 or the 90, from Lechmere or Davis Square. Get off at the Highland Avenue and Lowell Street stop. The Center is also close to Sullivan Square (Orange Line), accessible by the 90 bus at the Highland Avenue and Benton Road stop.

This event has been added to the Boston Poetry meetup calendar. If you wish to "go with a group", you can RSVP at the BP event page.

READING AT THE ARMORY

The First and Last Word Poetry Series presents Joshua Coben, Ron Slate, and Kim Triedman, reading on Tuesday April 12th, at 6:30 PM at The Center for the Arts, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville Mass. Admission: $4; followed by an open mic.