Bass River Press Book Launch:
DEIRDRE CALLANAN
Deirdre Callanan Reads from Water-Dreaming; with Readings by Barry Sternlieb, Lucile Burt, and Lisa Starr
Thursday, June 7, at 7pm.
Come celebrate the launch of Water-Dreaming by Deirdre Grace Callanan, whose poems and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Beloit Poetry Journal, the Colorado Review, and Poet Lore.
During her year as the Massachusetts Christa McAuliffe Fellow, Deirdre wrote Windows & Mirrors: Writing’s Power for Illumination & Reflection.
Since 2006, she has served on the writing faculty at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Also reading: Barry Sternlieb is the author of four chapbooks, including Winter Crows (Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for 2008) and was the recipient of a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry.
Lucile Burt’s chapbook Neither Created Nor Destroyed won the 2012 Philbrick Poetry Prize from the Providence Athenaeum.
The Cone of Uncertainty, Lucile’s new book,is hot off the press from Kelsay Books. Lisa Starr, Rhode Island Poet Laureate Emerita, spent the last thirty years running The Block Island Poetry Project and is at work on her next collection, Pot Luck, a book of poems about children.
The reading will conclude with an open mic and a signing.
Refreshments will be served.
The event is free but donations to Bass River Press are most welcome.??