Catherine Tufariello, James Najarian, at Powow July 9
Big poetry doings in Newburyport, MA, on July 9. Catherine Tufariello, winner of the 2006 Poet's Prize, and a WCU regular and friend of many of us, will be the Featured Reader at the Powow River Poets Reading at Jabberwocky Bookshop at 7:00 PM. She will be joined by Powow River Poet James Najarian. Hope that some of you locals can make what promises to be a terrific reading. An Open Mike follows the reading.
Catherine Tufariello is poet-in-residence at Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University, where she teaches a seminar in poetic craft. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection, Keeping My Name (Texas Tech University Press), which won the 2006 Poets' Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poems have appeared recently in 250 Poems, The Cento, Irresistible Sonnets, and the broadside series Poetry by Post, and she has had poems featured on American Life in Poetry, The Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily.
James Najarian, a Powow River Poets member and Brighton resident, has published verse in Tar River Poetry, Ararat, Watershed, Blue Unicorn, and other journals; and is the author of Victorian Keats (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), a critical study on Keats and the Victorians. His volume of poetry has been a finalist at the National Poetry Series, Ashland Poetry Press, and Anhinga Press. Raised on a goat farm in Pennsylvania, he received his Phd in English Literature from Yale University, and teaches nineteenth-century British Literature at Boston College, where he also edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts.
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