Workshop for Publishing Poets

Start: 01/04/2010 7:00 pm

We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop 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.”

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