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A Saturday Night Reading at The CPC (many thanks to the late David Omar White)
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Concord Poetry Center is happy to announce that award-winning poet Teresa Cader will read with Matt Miller followed by an open mike. Come early to sign up! FREE TO MEMBERS, non-members $3.
Teresa Cader is the author of three collections of poetry. Guests (1991) won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver) and The Journal Award in poetry from the Ohio State University Press. The Paper Wasp (1999) was published by Northwestern University Press; a sequence from it won the George Bogin Memorial Award. History of Hurricanes came out in 2009 and was selected as a “Must Read” book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and a finalist for the Sheila Motton Prize rom the New England Poetry Club.
Cader has won fellowships and awards from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, AGNI, Harvard Review, Harvard Magazine, Ploughshares, FIELD, Perihelion, Southwest Review, The Legacy Project, Slate Magazine, and many other periodicals. She has taught at MIT, UMass-Boston, and Emerson College. She is currently MFA National Faculty in Creative Writing in Poetry at the Lesley University low-residency program.
Matt Miller is the author of Cameo Diner: Poems and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His newest collection, Club Icarus, was selected as the 2012 Vasser Miller Poetry Prize winner and will be published next year by the University of North Texas Press. He was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, earned a BA and played football at Yale University, and earned an MFA from Emerson College. He is a former Visiting Professor of Writing at New England College and has taught writing at Stanford University, Harvard Extension, Endicott College and the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. Nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, he has published work in Slate, Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, Notre Dame Review, New California Writing 2012, PN Review, Third Coast, and Memorious. Currently, he is an instructor of English and a football coach at Philips Exeter Academy where he directs the Writers' Workshop at PEA. He lives in New Hamsphire with his family and spends his free time surfing in the cold Atlantic.
Join members of the Three Rivers Chorus and the Concord Poetry Center for a relaxing afternoon of a cappella songs and original poetry readings. Bring a picnic and enjoy these wonderful artists. Find a spot under the oak tree on the lawn by the Minuteman National Historical Park’s Buttrick Mansion (174 Liberty Street, Concord), and take in the incomparable view of the river as you sit back and listen.
The CPC poets who will be reading are:
Lari Smith
Zachary Bos
Ann Taylor
Bob Brooks
Barbara Feehrer
Kate Desjardins
Sharon Abra Hanen
Moira Linehan
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Workshops, Seminars and Classes
For more information on courses, call the office at: 978-897-0054 or to register for a course, see its Course Description, below.
- Building a Better Poem: Ongoing Workshop
Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor
Course Description & Registration
Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pm (Enroll anytime for 4-week period)
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Dillon and his harmonic convergence of Thoreau, poetry, and song. 
To the Honor of Donald Justice
With Jorie Graham, Peter Sacks, Steven Cramer and more of the stars Justice helped to light. 
Franz Wright Inaugurates the Center
Fall, 2004 Fresh Pulitzer Prize in hand, Franz wielded his spell-binding poems to dazzling effect. It couldn't have been a better start. |
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This program is supported in part by a grant from the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council and from the Concord Cultural Council, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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