175 Richdale Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 354-8242
The Fireside Reading Series
Molly Lynn Watt, Curator
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 • 7:30 pm,
Danielle Legros George and Gail Mazur
DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES is a writer, translator and author of Maroon, a collection of poems (Curbstone Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared recently in the journals Callaloo, Poeisis, Tuesday: an Art Project, and in the anthology Cadence of Hooves. Her work has been published in many literary journals and widely anthologized. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University, and is completing her second manuscript of poems.
GAIL MAZUR’s poem, Little Tempest, was installed on Boston's Harbor Walk in the Fall of 2007. Her latest book, Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems, (Chicago, 2005) won the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is author of 4 earlier books of poetry, Nightfire, The Pose of Happiness, The Common, and They Can¹t Take That Away from Me (University of Chicago Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. Her She is Writer in Residence at Emerson College and Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, a weekly poetry reading series she ran for 29 years. Mazur was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and the 2005 recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation¹s Distinguished Artist Award. An interview with Mazur about her work is online at The Atlantic. She and her husband, the artist Michael Mazur, live in Cambridge and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she serves on the Writing Committee and Summer Program Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center.
The reading will begin with an open mike. Refreshments will be served before and after the reading starting at 7pm. Suggested Donation--$3.
How
to get to Cambridge Cohousing:
Note:
The Walden St. bridge is under construction. Cambridge
Cohousing is located just north of Porter Square at 175 Richdale Ave.
From Massachusetts Ave., turn onto Upland Rd. Take the first right onto
Richdale Ave. Cross Walden St. and proceed to 175 Richdale Ave. Cambridge
Cohousing is a complex of yellow buildings. Walk through the main gate
to the common house. For further information or instructions, please contact please contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net, or Jenise Aminoff,
617.576.2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu.
