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Event: Poetry Reading by Max Redfire 

Place: Woods Hole Public Library 

Time/Date: Monday, July 27 starting at 7:30 PM 

Free and Open to the public 



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 Cape Codder, Cape Cod Times, Barnstable Patriot, Falmouth Enterprise, Provincetown Banner, and on Mindy Todd's The Point, Cape & Islands Public Radio. 




His earlier volumes have received high praise nationally: The Zen Of Water won First Prize in the Writer's Journal 2002 National Poetry Competition; Blue Wind received Honorable Mention, Writer's Digest, 2005; A Peek At Satori won Editor's Choice Award 2007, International Library of Poetry. His poems have appeared in America , Commonweal, and in the chapbooks, Forever Spoken, The Silence Within, Passages In Time. 




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 a poster contest sponsored by the Boston Public Library. Shortly after that, he wrote his first love poem, ">From the Window." I 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. 





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.) 




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 Boston Globe. He has been critiqued by the Falmouth Enterprise as "one of Cape Cod's most original artists." Rose Spazziani at ARTnews commented, "I found your abstract work to be just stunning." 




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. 


Jennifer S. Gaines 
Woods Hole Public Library 
Woods Hole, MA 02543 

508-548-8961 


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