The
Light Brigade charges on! We are delighted that Melissa Balmain, editor of
http://lightpoetrymagazine.com/revam...e-of-contents/, will be joining us at the Robert Frost Farm, Derry, NH, next Thursday as our featured reader. If you are in the area, stop by!
http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/reading-series/ (Directions on the website link.)
Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series
Features “Light” Touch of Poet Melissa Balmain
DERRY, NH, July 26, 2016 – The Robert Frost Farm’s 2016
Hyla Brook Reading Series features Melissa Balmain, humorist, poet and teacher, on Thursday, August 11, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm. Hyla Brook Poet Patti O’Neil will also read.
The series, held in the Frost Farm located at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), is free and open to the public. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work.
Balmain, of Rochester, NY, is the Editor of
Light, America's premier journal of comic verse. She teaches humor writing, poetry writing, and journalism at the University of Rochester. Though she has received the Able Muse Book Award and twice been a finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, some of her favorite prizes are Abe Lincoln bobbleheads, salt and pepper shakers that look like outhouses, and other classy items she has won in the Style Invitational,
The Washington Post’s weekly humor contest. Her poems have appeared in such places as
American Arts Quarterly, American Life in Poetry, Lighten Up Online, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Poetry Daily, and
The Spectator (UK); her prose in
The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and
Success. Her latest poetry collection is
Walking In on People (Able Muse Press).
Joining Balmain is Patti O’Neil of Derry. O’Neil has been a Hyla Brook Poet for two years. Her poems have appeared in publications including
Still Crazy and
Rattle. She is a middle school teacher in Derry, where she and her husband have raised their five children.
The final reading of the 2016 season takes place on Thursday, September 8, and features Johnny Longfellow along with Hyla Brook Poet Marti Noel.
Through September, the Hyla Brook Poets’ monthly writing workshop meets on the third Saturday of the month at 10am at its summer home at the Frost Farm.
For further information, email
hylabrookpoets@gmail.com, or visit
www.frostfarmpoetry.org or
facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets or
twitter.com/HylaBrookPoets.