On your way to or from the mountains or the lakes,
stop by for a sip of ice tea or white wine
and meet and hear poets reading their work
stop by for a sip of ice tea or white wine
and meet and hear poets reading their work
Archive 2019:
Alice Fogel: New Hampshire Poet Laureate
“Poetry Inspired by Abstraction”
Sunday October 6, at 4:00 pm:
NH Poet Laureate (2014-2019) Alice B Fogel will offer ways to more deeply appreciate a wide range of poetry even if you don't "get" it, and explain why focusing on the issue of "accessibility" is unnecessarily limiting in the world of art. She'll also read poems and welcome questions and discussion.
Free and open to all, including poetry lovers and doubters.
Page Coulter: “Nature’s Reflections”
Sunday September 22, at 5:00 pm:
Page's poetry is couched in nature. When walking along its wooded trails, she feels herself relating to mountains, lakes and rivers and often feels the presence of Native American spirits. She is also interested in a dialogue between poem and photograph concerning different or similar interpretations. All this is reflected in her poems. Variety found in the many forms of poetry both classic and contemporary lends itself to her expression of nature around her. It is here where her poetry originates.
Page Coulter has published six books of poetry. She taught poetry in schools in and around New Haven Connecticut for many years. Since she moved to New Hampshire in 2003, she has held weekly poetry and writing workshops in her home, and has for the past three years taught poetry for adults at Dartmouth College.
Rosemary Winslow: “Our Emily Dickinson”
July 21, at 4:00 pm:
In "Our Emily Dickinson" Dr. Rosemary Winslow presents poetry by Dickinson and her own poetry inspired by the poet, from her latest publication, Defying Gravity. Everyone has an idea of who the poet from Amherst, Massachusetts was. Rosemary will talk a bit about views of Dickinson through the century and a half since she wrote the majority of her poems. She will also discuss what Emily means in her life and work, and then open the floor to the audience to read a favorite Dickinson poem. By the close of the afternoon, all will have gathered a sheaf of perspectives on the poet who identified herself as writing "New Englandly."
Dr. Rosemary Winslow has just retired from the english Department at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she taught American Literature, with an emphasis on poetry history, theory, and practice. She has published widely in journals, anthologies, and books. Her most recent books are Green bodies and Defying Gravity. Her book of essays, Deep Beauty: Experiences of Wonder When the World Is on Fire, edited with Katie Lee, will be published January 20, 2020, in connection with the presidential election. She is married to artist John Winslow, and lives in Washington, D.C., and Sandwich, N.H.
Ala Khaki: “A Poetic Return to the Persian Garden”
August 18, at 4:00 pm:
In celebration of A Garden Dream Exhibit poet Ala Khaki will discuss the role of “Garden” in Persian art and life, both as a multi-dimensional metaphor and a physical place of serenity, and read thematic poems from classic and modern Persian poets in Farsi and English.
Ala Khaki, an Iranian American poet, is the author of two poetry collections, “Calling the Dawn” (“Sahar Khani” in Farsi), and “Return” (BookSurge Publishing.) His poems have appeared in Iranian and American literary journals and anthologies including "The Book Review (Barrasi e Ketab)," "Feather (Par)," "Thought and Imagination (Andishe va Khial)," "The Poets' Touchstone," "The Worcester Review," "The 2010 Poets’ Guide to New Hampshire," and "Poets Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets." In 1981, Ala Khaki was the subject of a documentary film titled “Resident Exile” by the celebrated documentary filmmaker and director Ross McElwee.
Archive 2018:
Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017),
Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016),
Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012),
Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010),
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest).
"Luck" received the “Reader’s Choice in Poetry” award at the 2011 New Hampshire Literary Awards.
Her poems, some of which have received Pushcart Prize nominations, have appeared recently
or are forthcoming in Lavender Review, Slipstream, Sinister Wisdom, and Nimrod, among others.
Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ
Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), A Face to Meet the Faces:
An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012) and
Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence (University of Iowa Press, 2002).
Ahl teaches at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016),
Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012),
Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010),
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest).
"Luck" received the “Reader’s Choice in Poetry” award at the 2011 New Hampshire Literary Awards.
Her poems, some of which have received Pushcart Prize nominations, have appeared recently
or are forthcoming in Lavender Review, Slipstream, Sinister Wisdom, and Nimrod, among others.
Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ
Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), A Face to Meet the Faces:
An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012) and
Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence (University of Iowa Press, 2002).
Ahl teaches at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Boston poet Jean Flanagan is the author of two books of poetry,
“Ibbetson Street” (Garden Street Press)
and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books).
She recently completed a memoir in poetry and prose called “A Hard Winter for Living”.
She teaches at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA & lives in Arlington.
“Ibbetson Street” (Garden Street Press)
and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books).
She recently completed a memoir in poetry and prose called “A Hard Winter for Living”.
She teaches at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA & lives in Arlington.
Keith Tornheim,a biochemistry professor at Boston University School of Medicine, has five recent books,
I Am Lilith, Dancer on the Wind
Spirit Boat: Poems of Crossing Over
Can You Say Kaddish for the Living
Fireflies: Poems of Love and Family
Spoiled Fruit: Adam and Eve in Eden and Beyond.
His poems have appeared in Ibbetson Street, The Somerville Times, Boston Literary Magazine,
Muddy River Poetry Reviewand Poetica.
He lives in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, with his wife, Susan, a fiber artist
and his primary critic and copy editor.
I Am Lilith, Dancer on the Wind
Spirit Boat: Poems of Crossing Over
Can You Say Kaddish for the Living
Fireflies: Poems of Love and Family
Spoiled Fruit: Adam and Eve in Eden and Beyond.
His poems have appeared in Ibbetson Street, The Somerville Times, Boston Literary Magazine,
Muddy River Poetry Reviewand Poetica.
He lives in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, with his wife, Susan, a fiber artist
and his primary critic and copy editor.
Timothy Muskat, a former professor of English and Creative Writing,
has resided for the last seventeen years in nearby Sandwich, New Hampshire.
Tim is the author of four collections of poems, numerous critical essays,
and the recipient of several prizes and awards for both his teaching and his poetry.
In the past decade has focused his poetic and photographic lenses
on his beloved boyhood—haunt, the White Mountains.
has resided for the last seventeen years in nearby Sandwich, New Hampshire.
Tim is the author of four collections of poems, numerous critical essays,
and the recipient of several prizes and awards for both his teaching and his poetry.
In the past decade has focused his poetic and photographic lenses
on his beloved boyhood—haunt, the White Mountains.
