We are pleased to
host a series of readings by poets from theWorkshop for Published
Poets. Reading on January 4 are the following poets:
Emily Ferrara is the
author of The Alchemy of
Grief, a collection of
poems selected to win the Bordighera Poetry Prize, and published in bilingual
edition (English and Italian) in
2007. She is featured, along with the book’s translator Sabine Pascarelli, in
the winter 2008 season of NPR’s “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of
Congress.” She has published and presented
nationally on the power of writing to foster personal and professional
development, and on creative writing as a form of reflective practice. Ferrara’s work engages
subjects intrinsic to the human experience and the transcendent, including
themes of love, loss, personal and professional identity, the illness
experience, death and dying, and transformation. Ferrara has received recognition for her poetry
from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Worcester County Poetry
Association, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her poems are
forthcoming in Superstition
Review and Auscultations, and have appeared in UU World,Lumina, Worcester Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal , and others and
anthologized in several books, most recently in The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany.
Eric Hyett’s first
collection of poetry, English Through
PicturesBack
Bay View, Salamander,
The Harvard Advocate, and The
Coin Flip Shuffle as well as Gwyneth.vg and various online collections.
Eric is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied poetry with
Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido. A linguist, he is fluent in 6 languages,
and has translated poetry (as well as written his own) in English, French,
German, and Japanese. He has just completed his second book: a collection
entitled Flight
Risk. was a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. His work
has appeared in
Lee Firestone
Dunne from Northwestern University, earned a Masters degree in Speech
Pathology from Hunter College, and studied British theatre in
England and
Scotland on a Fulbright scholarship.
She has worked as a professional actor in New York City, and as a college professor. Each
year, she presents workshops on developing human potential (based on the work of
The Creative Problem-Solving Institute) in the U.S., Canada, and Italy. Her
poetry has appeared in Antigonish Review,
Comstock Review, Poetry Motel, and other literary publications. She
is the mother of four children and lives in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. About her new book, Cocktail Shaker, Dagan Coppock writes,
“She traverses multiple worlds — South
Africa and Chicago,
Japan and Newfoundland, American
suburbia and uninhabited nature — and yet her unique vision unifies this
collection.” Barbara Helfgott Hyett writes, “With a fearless and unsparing eye,
Dunne renders life into wisdom. The point-of-view takes the reader by surprise:
she is as disciplined as a clock. Images arise from the accumulated
devastation: a family suffers its father — a myth, it seems, of alcoholism and
harsh love. But the poet will not be shaken loose and carries her readers to
safety: an act not of rescue but of endurance.”
Location:
Porter Square Books 25 White St Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413
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