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Join Porter Square Books for an evening of poetry with Frannie Lindsay and Sabra Loomis.

Frannie Lindsay's third volume of poetry, Mayweed, to be released in January 2010, is the current winner of the Washington Prize. Her previous books are Lamb and Where She Always Was. She is the 2008 winner of the Missouri Review Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georiga Review, Field, Salamander, The Harvard Review, and many other journals. They have also been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony.

Sabra Loomis is the author of Rosetree and two chapbooks of poetry. She has received awards from the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation, the Yeats Society, and the British Council, as well as fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches frequently at the William Joiner Center at the University of Massachusetts, and was on the faculty of the Poets' House, Donegal, for many years. She divides her time between New York City and Achill Island, Ireland.