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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Event:<span> </span> Poetry Reading by Max Redfire</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Place: <span> </span>Woods Hole Public Library</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Time/Date: <span> </span>Monday, July 27 starting at 7:30 PM</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Free and Open to the public</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span>Max Redfire (Wheeler), Woods Hole artist and
poet, will present an evening of poetry at the Woods Hole Public Library, on
Monday, July 27 starting at 7:30 PM. He will be reading mostly from his newest
book “Zen Popcorn” a fine collection of nature poems. This book has been very
well received, with excellent reviews in the <em>Cape Codder, Cape Cod Times,
Barnstable Patriot, Falmouth Enterprise, Provincetown Banner, </em>and on Mindy
Todd's <em>The Point,</em> <em>Cape & Islands Public Radio.</em></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><em><br></em></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span>His earlier volumes have received high
praise nationally: <em>The Zen Of Water</em> won First Prize in the <em>Writer's
Journal</em> 2002 National Poetry Competition; <em>Blue Wind</em> received
Honorable Mention, <em>Writer's Digest,</em> 2005; <em>A Peek At Satori</em> won
Editor's Choice Award 2007, <em>International Library of Poetry.</em> His poems
have appeared in <em>America</em><em>,
Commonweal,</em> and in the chapbooks, <em>Forever Spoken, The Silence Within,
Passages In Time.</em></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><em><br></em></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span>Before he became a poet, Max Redfire was
an accomplished artist, drawing daily and intensely in boyhood, winning Best In
The Class awards. At age 12, one of his ink drawing won First Prize in<span> </span>a poster contest sponsored by the Boston
Public Library. Shortly after that, he wrote his first love poem, "From
the Window."<span> I</span>n his freshman year in high school, Max
began his first formal studies in art, drawing still-life pastels with Boston University
teacher, John Tringalli, at the Burroughs Newsboy Foundation on Boston's Beacon Hill. He
later studied figure-drawing at the DeCordova
Museum School
with Bill Flynn, who sponsored the young man to continue his studies in drawing
and lithography at the Boston
Museum School. <br></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span>He did further studies in printmaking at
the innovative Boston Impressions Workshop. After moving to Cape
Cod, he began an intensive study of the monotype with Beverley
Edwards, founder of the Monotype Guild of New England. He did additional
studies of layered monotypes, engraving and etching at the Graphics Workshop in
Santa Fe, New Mexico
where several of his works were acquired by the College of Santa Fe
during its "Monothon Week," artists printing monotypes. (Note: A
monotype or monoprint is a single, original print, not a series of prints.)</font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span>Max Redfire Wheeler has exhibited his
abstract art via art dealers, art galleries and juried exhibitions from New
England to New Mexico, and in Antwerp, Belgium's
"International Mail-art Festival."His works are in private
collections from coast to coast, in the U.K. and France, and in corporate
collections (Boston Photo Lab; Cape Cod Museum of Art; Dunfey Hotel,
Presidential Suite; Duncan Direct; Ginsberg & Hallowell Associates; ITT
Corporation; Kennedy Galleries, etc.). His exhibits in juried shows often
receive First Prize awards. He is one of a very small number of artists whose
works were awarded "Critic's Choice" by the <em>Boston</em><em> Globe.</em> He has been
critiqued by the <em>Falmouth Enterprise</em> as "one of Cape
Cod's most original artists." Rose Spazziani at <em>ARTnews </em>commented,
"I found your abstract work to be just stunning."</font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, you may call the Library at 508-548-8961 or visit the
website www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.</span></font><span style="color: green;"></span></span></p>
<br>
<p>Jennifer S. Gaines<br>
Woods Hole Public Library<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
<br>
508-548-8961<br>
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