<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099'><br><style>p { margin: 0;</style><b>From:</b> Alice Kociemba <<a href="mailto:calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net" target="_blank">calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net</a>><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div></div><blockquote><div> <h1 style="margin-right:-9.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; "></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:-9.0pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-9.0pt"><span style="font-size:22.0pt; font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold""><b><i>Calliope – Summer Readings</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 14px; ">(in collaboration with Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard and the Falmouth Artists Guild)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 9pt; font-size: 14px; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-9.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-9.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>Sunday, August 19<sup>th</sup>, 3 to 5 PM, The Falmouth Art Center</b></span><b>, </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; ">137 Gifford Street, Falmouth, MA 02540</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "><b>Jorie Graham </b><span style="font-weight:normal">is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently <i>P L A C E</i></span> (Ecco, May 2012) and <i>Sea Change </i><span style="font-style:normal">(Ecco, 2008). She won the 1996 </span><i>Pulitzer Prize for Poetry</i><span style="font-style:normal"> for </span><i>The Dream of the Unified Filed: Selected Poems (1974 – 1994),</i><span style="font-style:normal"> and has edited two anthologies, </span><i>Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language</i><span style="font-style:normal"> and </span><i>The Best American Poetry 1990</i><span style="font-style:normal">.<b> </b></span> She is a recipient of a <i>John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship</i><span style="font-style:normal"> and has served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. Jorie currently is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard University.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; ">Opening Reader, <b>Lauren Wolk</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> is an artist, poet and novelist. Her poems have appeared in <i>roger, Nimrod, PrimeTime, Cape Women, A Place of Her Own, </i></span>and elsewhere. Her first novel, <i>Those Who Favor Fire </i><span style="font-style:normal">was published by Random House (1999), and her second</span><i>, Forgiving Billy</i><span style="font-style:normal">, won the </span><i>Hackney Award</i><span style="font-style:normal"> and was twice nominated for the </span><i>Pushcart Editor’s Book Award.</i><span style="font-style:normal"> Lauren is currently at work on her third novel and a collection of poems and is currently the Associate Director of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; ">Music: <b>Chapoquoit Cello Quartet </b><span style="font-weight: normal">(Emily Faris, Sofia Gabriell, Kaylee Lino, Kurran Singh)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "><b><i> A book signing reception follows the Readings. A suggested donation of $20, at the door</i></b><span style="font-style:normal"><b>. </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; ">(Donations fund Calliope’s poets’ stipend for its regular season and its craft workshops.)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; ">No tickets or reservations required. Please <b>RSVP</b><span style="font-weight:normal">, however, to <a href="mailto:calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net" target="_blank">calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net</a> or (508) 566-1090</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9pt; font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>
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