Annual Book Party

A celebration of New England's writing community and those who have published books this year

Thursday, September 29, 2005
7:00 to 9:00 PM
Alexis Room of the Hotel Marlowe
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PEN New England's FRIEND TO WRITERS AWARD will be presented to The Hotel Marlowe

If you plan to attend, e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu or call 617-824-8820 and leave your name, the title of your book, the publisher, and the publication date, and please bring a copy of your book to the Book Party for other PEN members to admire. Also, please plan to leave a copy at the hotel for their library.

If you haven't published this year, please come and raise a glass to those who have at this first and festive fall gathering of PEN New England!

Parking is available at the Cambridgeside Galleria garage; the closest T stop is Lechmere (Green Line).

"So You Want to Write a Children's Picture Book?"

September 18, 2005
6:30 PM - FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Simmons College
Main Building
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA
(617) 521-2540

A panel discussion of the award winning picture book, The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, with author Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrator Beth Krommes, editor Ann Rider, designer Bob Kosturko, and moderator Carol Otis Hurst.

David Barber Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday September 7, 2005
6:15 - 7:30 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)

David Barber is the Poetry Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College. His first collection of poems, The Spirit Level, received the Terrence Des Pres Prize and was published by TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press. A second collection, Wonder Cabinet, will be published in 2005 by Zoo Press. He has received a Massachusetts state arts fellowship, a PEN/New England Discovery Award, the Ross Feld Award for Criticism from Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and two AWP
awards while completing the MA in English and Writing at Stanford
University. Poems from The Spirit Level and Diorama have appeared in Agni, Atlantic Monthly, Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Slate, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has written essays and reviews for a variety of publications including Poetry, Parnassus, Boston Review, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review.

Porter Square Books is the bookseller for the PEN-Marlowe Series.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.