Alfred Nicol and Diana Der-Hovanessian at Powow March 13
Two widely published and award-winning New England poets, Diana Der-Hovanessian and Alfred Nicol, highlight the next Powow River Poets reading, March 13 at 3:00 PM in Newburyport, MA. The reading is at Jabberwocky Books in the Tannery complex at 50 Water Street in Newburyport, and includes an Open Mike. Any of you in the Greater Boston/Southern NH area are more than welcome.
Alfred Nicol, a long time Powow member whom many here know from WCU seminars and elsewhere, received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light. His new book, Elegy for Everyone, was chosen for the first Anita Dorn Memorial Prize and will be published in 2010. His poems have been anthologized in Contemporary Poetry of New England and 150 Contemporary Sonnets, and have appeared in Poetry, The Hopkins Review, The Dark Horse, The Flea, First Things, and numerous other journals and anthologies.
Diana Der-Hovanessian, the author of more than 23 books of poetry and translations, is president of the New England Poetry Club. Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Ararat, CSM, Poetry, Partisan, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, and numerous anthologies, and she has won awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Society of America, among other honors.
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