We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Reading on March 1 are the following poets:
Geraldine
Zetzel is a longtime resident of Cambridge and Westport Point, MA.
Her earlier career was in teaching, teacher training and child
advocacy. Currently she leads a course in Contemporary Poetry at the
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. In addition to her new
collection, Mapping the Sands, she is the author of two
chapbooks, Near Enough to Hear the Words and With Both
Hands.
Originally
from South Africa, Freddy Frankel earned an advanced degree in
psychiatry from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
before migrating to the U.S. in 1962. He has been on the faculty of
Harvard Medical School since 1969, Professor Emeritus of psychiatry
since 1997, and served as psychiatrist in chief at Beth Israel Hospital
Boston from 1986 to 1997. Now retired from active practice, he has
shifted his focus to poetry, attending poetry classes at the Harvard
Extension School and studying with Barbara Helfgott Hyett. His
chapbook, Hottentot Venus, was published by Pudding House
Publications, and his book, In a Stone's Hollow, was published by
Fairweather. He was awarded the Robert Penn Warren First Award of New
England Writers in 2003. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cape Codder, Concho River Review, Ibbetson Street, Lalitamba, The
Larcom Review, Moment, Ship of Fools, The Tusculum Review, and in the
anthologies The Mercy of Tides, Rough Places Plain, and New
England Writers 2003.
Nita
Penfold is a graduate of Lesley University's Masters of Arts in
Writing program. Her poetry is widely published in anthologies, most
recently in the Charters & Charters textbook, Literature &
Its Writers (4th ed.). Her first full-length book, They Stand Up
in Broken Shells (www.lulu.com/nitapenfold)
won the 2006 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Award
and her poem, “Stigmata,” won the 2005 Judith Siegel Pierson Award from
Wayne State University. Pudding House Publications has published two
chapbooks of her poetry, Mile-High Blue-Sky Pie and The Woman
With the Wild-Grown Hair. Nita edited the anthology, Hunger
Enough: Living Spiritually in a Consumer Society. She works as
adjunct faculty for Andover Newton Theological School in spirituality
and the arts and as a religious educator and Spirit Play trainer.
