Past Events- Fireside Reading- Molly Lynn Watt
Happy New Year, come hear the poets!
Date:
Tuesday January 12, 2010• 7:30
Location:
Cambridge Cohousing
175 Richdale Ave
Cambridge, MA 01240
Cambridge Cohousing presents and Molly Lynn Watt curates
Lainie Senechal and Henry Braun
LAINIE SENECHAL is an accomplished poet and painter, and an award-winning public school teacher of 30 years. She has published over 75 poems and her work appears in four anthologies. She is co-author with Harris Gardner of Chalice of Eros (Stone Soup Poets), and with her sisters Donna and Laura Senechal of Naiad’s Lantern by Esther Triess (Mothwing Press). Her most recent publication is a chapbook, Vocabulary of Awakening (Pudding House, 2008).
HENRY BRAUN is a poet, teacher and peace activist. During the Vietnam War he organized poetry read-ins, withholding of war taxes and draft card turn-ins. He is still active in the anti-war movement in his home state of Maine. Most of his career as a teacher of literature and creative writing was at Temple University, including a year at Temple’s branch campus in Japan. The Vergil Woods, his first book of poems was published by Atheneum in 1968. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review, and in several anthologies. He is presently a Contributing Editor for the American Poetry Review. His book, Loyalty, New and Selected Poems, is the first offering of Off the Grid Press, and won a 2008 Maine Literary Award.
The reading begins with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Richard Curran, webmagician, plus Jenise Aminoff, Vinnie D’Orio, Jim Foritano, Lolita Paiewonsky, Ruby Poltorak, Elizabeth Quinlan, Julie Rochlin, Barbara Thomas and Dan Lynn Watt. Thanks to many others for help on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. The reading is held at Cambridge Co-Housing, 175 Richdale Ave. in Cambridge, 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request to the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu, or www.cambridgecohousing.org/Fireside/index.html
Directions:
Cambridge Cohousing is north of Porter Square at 175 Richdale Ave. From Massachusetts Ave., turn on Upland Rd. Take right to Richdale Ave. to 175 Richdale Ave. Cambridge Cohousing is a complex of yellow buildings. Walk through the main gate to the common house. For further information or instructions, please contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net, or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu
Contact:
Fireside Readings
www.cambridgecohousing.org/Fireside/index.html
www.MollyLynnWatt.blogspot.com
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