Two teachers and editors - Kim Bridgford and Harry Thomas - are Featured Poets at the Powow River Poets October 17 reading in Newburyport, MA. The reading starts at 7:30 PM at the Newburyport Art Association Gallery at 65 Water Street in Newburyport,
www.newburyportart.org and is followed by an Open Mike.
Kim Bridgford, winner of the 2007 Donald Justice Prize, is well known to many of us from her West Chester participation. She is a professor of English at Fairfield University and editor of the print journal
Dogwood and the online journal
Mezzo Cammin. Her books include
Undone (2003), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize;
Instead of Maps (2005), nominated for the Poets’ Prize; and
In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, winner of the Justice.
Harry Thomas, a Founding Member of the Concord Poetry Center, is editor in chief of Handsel Books, the literary imprint of Other Press, an affiliate of Random House. He has taught at Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Hawaii, and Davidson; for the last ten years at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a prep school in Cambridge.
May This Be (2001) is a selection of his translations. His awards include the Hopwood award for poetry and the Diana Der-Hovanessian prize for translation
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