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SUMMARY:Celebrating Amy Lowell: Garden Poetry from a Poet Gardener
DESCRIPTION:Somerville Growing Center\, 22 Vinal Ave\, Somerville\, MA 02143 \nCome to the Somerville Growing Center to gather\, listen\, and celebrate the garden poetry of Amy Lowell. This special event will focus on poetry by and in connection to Amy Lowell\, with readings from Jennifer Clarvoe\, Lloyd Schwartz\, and Denise Provost. Conversation and an open mic will follow\, where all are welcome to share poems from\, in\, or about the garden. \nThe Growing Center is fully accessible. \n(In case of rain\, the event will be rescheduled to July 21st from 6 to 7 pm.) \nJennifer Clarvoe’s first book\, Invisible Tender (Fordham\, 2000)\, won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Rome Prize in Literature supported writing for her second book\, Counter-Amores (University of Chicago\, 2011). She has held fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference and the James Merrill House. Retired from Kenyon College\, where she taught for almost thirty years\, she lives in Somerville\, Massachusetts.  She has completed a new manuscript of poems\, PIANO PIANO. \nLloyd Schwartz is Somerville’s Poet Laureate\, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston\, editor of Elizabeth Bishop\, and music and arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and WBUR’s website. He’s been awarded NEA\, Guggenheim\, and Academy of American Poets fellowships and the Pushcart and Daniel Varoujan Prizes in poetry\, and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His poems have been selected for The Best and The Best of the Best American Poetry. His latest book is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems. \nDenise Provost Besides long service in the Massachusetts House of Representatives\, Denise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (2019) and City of Stories (2021). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street\, Muddy River Poetry Review\, Light Quarterly\, qarrtsiluni\, and Poetry Porch. Provost received the Maria C. Faust Sonnet 2012 Competition Best Love Sonnet award\, and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022.
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Scholars Carl Rollyson and Melissa Bradshaw discuss the life and work of Amy Lowell. 
DESCRIPTION:  \nWelcome! You are invited to join a Zoom meeting Amy Lowell scholars Melissa Bradshaw and Carl Rollyson. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. \nAn award-winning Amy Lowell scholar\, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw is editing both print and digital editions of the poet’s never-before collected letters. Professor Bradshaw suggests that she will provide some interesting—sometimes conflict-ridden—details of events in the early years of the New England Poetry Club when Lowell was its first president. \nProfessor Carl Rollyson is the author of the recently published biography\, Amy Lowell Anew. His book presents details of Lowell’s unconventional life and critical reassessment of Lowell’s work and legacy. \nCarl Rollyson\, Professor Emeritus of Journalism\, at Baruch College\, CUNY\, has published fourteen biographies\, including Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography and Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries. In 2020\, he published a two volume-biography\, The Life of William Faulkner\, and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.  Podcast: A Life in Biography: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson; website: carlrollyson.com. \nJust published: Sylvia Plath Day by Day\, Volume 1. Volume 2 is forthcoming in August 2024. Also forthcoming: The Making of Sylvia Plath\, William Faulkner On and Off the Page: Essays in Biographical Criticism\, and Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero. \nMelissa Bradshaw teaches writing\, pedagogy\, and literary and cultural studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform our understanding of powerful public women. She has published extensively on Amy Lowell\, co-editing a volume of her poems as well as a volume of scholarly essays about her. Her book\, Amy Lowell\, Diva Poet won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. She has also published on poets Edith Sitwell\, Edna St. Vincent Millay\, Denise Levertov\, and on divas more generally. She is currently working on The Selected Letters of Amy Lowell\, and directs the Amy Lowell Letters Project\, a critical digital edition of Lowell’s collected letters\, for which she was awarded an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication. Read more about the letters project at melissabradshaw.org/amy-lowell-letters-project/ \n 
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary: A Tribute to Amy Lowell at All She Wrote Books
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Thursday\, March 7\, at 7 pm\, poets CD Collins\, Melissa Nilles\, and D Donna will read and talk about Amy Lowell’s poetry\, influence\, and legacy in the casual and welcoming atmosphere of All She Wrote Books\, an intersectional feminist and queer bookstore in East Somerville. The bookstore is accessible to those who need disability accommodations. \nPlease register for the event at the Eventbrite link below: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-a-tribute-to-amy-lowell-all-she-wrote-books-tickets-835993407787?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios \n\nGetting There: 3 min walk from the East Somerville Green Line T stop\, 14 min walk from the Sullivan Square Orange line T stop.\n\n\nKentucky native CD Collins follows the storytelling traditions of the South\, both as a solo artist and when accompanied by musicians. Collins was named the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Malden\, Massachusetts and has been selected as a Red-Letter Poet by Steven Ratiner. Collins is the author of Blue Land\, a collection of short stories (First Trade Edition\, Polyho Press); a poetry collection\, Self-Portrait with Severed Head (Ibbetson Street Press); and the novel Afterheat (Empty City Press). She has appeared at Berklee College of Music\, the Boston Public Library\, Boston’s ICA\, the New York Public Library\, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. \nMelissa Nilles is a musician\, composer\, writer\, poet\, expressive arts therapist\, and licensed mental health counselor living in Somerville\, MA with her partner and the extraordinary Siberian cat Prince Siddhartha. Nilles is the owner of a small private psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy practice in Somerville serving creative people going through life/career transitions\, LGBTQ+ individuals\, or people with ADHD\, anxiety\, or trauma. She is the frontwoman (lead vocalist\, lyricist\, and keyboardist) of Boston-based band Ruby Grove (2022- now)\, which is a New England Music Award-nominated multi-genre indie alternative musical project inspired by trip-hop\, soul\, indietronica\, and indie rock. \nD Donna (they/any) has spent the last five years basking in the warm light of Boston’s queer\, trans\, and poet communities. They have not\, in all that time\, figured out how to write an introductory bio. But they love reading poems\, and they love all of you\, and that’ll be enough for now.
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LOCATION:All She Wrote Books\, 75 Washington St\,\, Somerville\, MA\, 02143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Networks taken by Amy Lowell Poems.
DESCRIPTION:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mov-amy-17.mp4\n  \nThis February 9\, marks 150 years since Amy Lowell’s birth\, throughout the day we will be offering readings of her poems in the voices of important poets\, both her American peers and her peers from around the world. We will extend these readings throughout the year 2024 to celebrate its 150th Anniversary. \nWe are going to take over the networks with videos of poets reading Amy Lowell. \nAmy Lowell in the voices of all the poets on networks. \nEveryone read Amy Lowell on the networks. \nHashtag: #amylowell150. \n \n 
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