Discovery Evening 2006
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PEN New England invites you to attend a celebration of new writers at our annual Discovery Evening event.
Thursday March 2, 2006 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
The Semel Theatre, Emerson College
- Debra Spark introduces Mary Medlin
- Askold Melnyczuk introduces Matiop Wal
- Leslie Epstein introduces writer Emma Chastain
- Ann Hood introduces writer Jan Grieco
Formal invitations to follow. For more information, e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.
Hotel Marlowe Reading Series: Special Reading in Honor of Women's History Month
Wednesday March 1, 2006
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Danielle Legros Georges
Author, Maroon (Curbstone Press)
Andrea Cohen
Author, The Cartographer's Vacation (Owl Creek Press)
Ruth Lepson
Author, Dreaming in Color (Alice James Books)
Danielle Legros Georges was born in Haiti and raised in the U.S. She's the author of Maroon, published by Curbstone Press. Her poems are widely anthologized and have also appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, The American Poetry Review, Black Renaissance Noire, and The Caribbean Writer. Her many awards for writing include a LEF Foundation Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship. She teaches at Lesley University.
Andrea Cohen's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in journals such as The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and Provincetown Arts. She is the author of the poetry collection The Cartographer's Vacation and director of the Blacksmith House Reading Series.
Ruth Lepson's book of poems, Dreaming in Color, was published by Alice James Books. She is also the editor of Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, published by the University of Illinois Press. Lepson serves as Poet-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. In recent years Lepson has been collaborating with artists and other poets; an instance is a poem created with musician/poet James Carson, which was made into an artist's book and published online at dispatx.com
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.
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.
For more information call 617.349.8113 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.