ABOUT THE EVENT
During Somerville Open Studios (2-3 May 2009), enjoy free readings in the gallery by local poets on the hour and half hour, 1-5 p.m. both days. Participating poets include famous local favorites as well as up and coming writers from across Somerville, Boston and New England.
SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, 2 MAY 2009
1:00 Irene Koronas (15 minutes)
1:30 Violet Byrd (15 minutes)
2:00 Amy Tighe (20 minutes)
2:30 Mary Alexandra Agner
3:00 Philip Burnham (20 minutes)
3:30 Bridget Galway (15 minutes)
4:00 Chloë Joan López (25 minutes)
4:30 Laura Ashlyn Day (10 minutes)
SUNDAY, 3 MAY 2009
1:00 Tam Lin Neville (20 minutes)
1:30 Doug Holder (25 minutes)
2:00 Marsha Pomerantz (20 minutes)
2:30 Jenny Grassl (15 minutes)
3:00 Keith Tornheim (15 minutes)
3:30 Aaron Stockwell (15 minutes)
4:00 Jessica Almeida (15 minutes)
4:30 Annie Silverman (15 minutes)
ARTIST STATEMENTS
Mary Alexandra Agner
www.pantoum.org
Mary Alexandra Agner is the author of The Doors of the Body (Mayapple Press 2009). Her poetry has been published in North American Review, Isotope, Iron Horse Literary Review, and others. She has spent her life studying the universe and writing about it. She makes her home outside Boston.
Jessica Almeida
A native Somervillian and 4th year student at Lesley University, graduating in May with a degree in Secondary Education and English, Jessica has worked with local poets in several undergraduate creative writing courses and recently performed at and helped organize Bad Poetry Night at Lesley.
Philip Burnham
Philip Burnham grew up in New England, served for three years in JFK’s State Department as American Vice Consul in Marseille, France, and spent the balance of his life teaching Ancient and Medieval History, with sabbatical years at Darwin College, Cambridge and in Paris.
His poems have appeared in a number of journals and magazines including Arizona Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Margie, The Midwest Quarterly and Perspective. Philip has also published several books of poems including My Neighbor Adam (Mellen Press, 2003), Sailing from Boston (Ibbetson Street Press 2003), Housekeeping (Ibbestson Street Press 2005) and A Careful Scattering (Cervena Barva Press 2007).
Violet Byrd
www.violetbyrd.com
explorations in photography, narrative non-fiction, and animation for web broadcast combined with recent work in sculpture and drawing inform poems begun this winter, to be read by violet byrd at SOS.
Laura Day
Currently a humanities teacher that performs everyday in class, Laura Day reads poetry, raps, and songs to her students. Laura has participated in several poetry slams and open poetry readings.
Bridget Galway
www.geocities.com/bkgalway
Bridget has exhibited her work in Western Ma. and Cape Cod since 1982. She moved to Amherst with her one 1 1/2 year old son Blake, to pursue her college career. In 1983, she received a full scholarship for four years at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, as well as the Binney and Smith Fine Arts Achievement Award in 1989. She was fortunate to have studied under John Grillo, Leonal Gongora and Hanlyn Davis. Bridget earned BFA in Painting coupled with a degree in Art Education and a minor in Art History.
Jenny Grassl
www.jennylawtongrassl.com
Jenny has published poems in Lit magazine, Euphony, Pierogi Press, Bennington Review, the Grolier Prize, Sacred Fire,
and the Wilderness House Review. She has done readings at the Essex Art Center, The Concord Art Association, Demolicious Reading Series, and Fort Point Arts Community Gallery. In 2002 she received her M.F.A. in poetry from Bennington College. A visual artist as well, Jenny’s work will be part of Surprise the Tender Alphabet, an exhibition at the Nave Gallery in June.
Doug Holder
http://dougholder.blogspot.com • http://authorsden.com/douglasholder • http://ibbetsonpress.com
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press in Somerville, Mass. He is the arts/editor of The Somerville News, the host of "Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer" on Somerville Community Access TV, the curator of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, the co-founder of Somerville's literary group "The Bagel Bards," and the co-founder of the "Somerville News Writers Festival" His poetry and prose has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Rattle, Hazmat, Raintown Review, the new renaissance, The Toronto Quarterly, and many others. His most recent poetry collection is "The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel" (Cervena Barva Press), and a collection of interviews: "From the Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers" He holds an MA in American and English Literature and Language from Harvard University. His work has been translated in to French and Spanish.
Irene Koronas
www.whlreview.com
The poetry editor of Wilderness House Literary Review and the Ibbetson Street Press, Irene Koronas has been reading poetry publicly for about 15-20 years at various venues in Cambridge and Somerville.
Chloë Joan López
www.chlojolo.com
Originally from New Mexico, Chloë Joan López studied physics at Harvard University before receiving an MA. in poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She was a finalist for the 2006-2007 Writing Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the 2008 Andrés Montoya First Book Prize, a semi-finalist the 2008 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Book Prize, received an honorable mention from the 2007 Southwest Review Morton Marr Prize, and was recognized in 2006 by the Artist’s Grant program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in can we have our ball back?, Spoon River Poetry Review, Alehouse and Mississippi Review, and a chapbook, Quodlibet, was published in 2009 by New Michigan Press. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Tam Lin Neville
www.offthegridpress.net • http://cltlblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/a-hot-topic/• http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/main/index_40-41.html
Tam Lin Neville is the author of the full-length book of poems, Journey Cake (BkMk Press, l998). Her second collection, Triage, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press (Somerville). Her poems and reviews have appeared in Harvard Review, Mademoiselle, American Poetry Review, Ironwood, and Threepenny Review. She is co-editor of Off The Grid Press and works for Changing Lives Through Literature, an organization that teaches individuals on probation.
Marsha Pomerantz
http://www.bpj.org/PDF/V56N4.pdf
Marsha Pomerantz’s poems and prose have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review (May/June 2009), Harvard Review, Parnassus, PN Review, and Salamander. She has translated poetry, short fiction, and a novel from the Hebrew and works as an editor for the Harvard Art Museum.
Annie Silverman
www.anniesilverman.biz • www.abrazospress.com
A visual artist and writer who has lived in Somerville for 30 years, Annie will be reading poems written as part of a writing group of visual artist/writers that convened at the Diesel Cafe in 2007. She is the founder of ABRAZOS Press, a professional studio for relief printmaking at the Miller St. Studio and teaches at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Her prints and artist books are collected worldwide and her poetry has been published by Citylights Books.
Aaron Stockwell
Majoring in English and Secondary Education at Lesley University, Aaron is working on two chapbooks, one on the people and places of New England, and another exploring form and sound in poetry. He has read at open mikes at Lesley University and in Central Massachusetts.
Amy Tighe
A professional storyteller for several years, Amy has performed in schools, shelters, elder housing, festivals, and numerous events. In all places, she told stories about hope, courage, the environment and personal change. For the past two years, she has returned to her first love--poetry. She has read at the Boston Center for Adult Education as a featured poet, at the Joiner Center as a part of a student recital and at various open mikes throughout Cambridge and Somerville.
Keith Tornheim
http://shirhadash-ma.org/poetry.html
A faculty member at Boston University School of Medicine, Keith describes himself as “lapsed” poet. After a brief burst of writing poetry in college and being co-winner (and only science major) of a Great Lakes College Association contest, he wrote occasionally for several decades. But since 2001, he has started writing and reading publicly more and more, including at the High Holiday services of his congregation, notably a series on the Sacrifice of Isaac.
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