The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016: Cape Cod Poetry Review: A Reading and Di...

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Cape Cod Poetry Review: A Reading and Discussion of Lit Journals on a Shoestring

The program will begin with a brief introduction of the genesis behind the Cape Cod Poetry Review, a regional literary journal which aims to showcase writers from the Cape and Islands. The first part of the discussion will center around the connected history of the lit journal's origins within open mics throughout the mid-Cape, the journal's subsequent birth, and its struggles for funding throughout the three issues. Editors M.L. Wolters and John Bonanni will then introduce short readings from five poets who have been featured in the journal: Alice Kociemba, Gregory Hischak, Lauren Wolk, Mary Ellen Redmond, and Barry Hellman.

Moderators

John Bonanni

Editor, Cape Cod Poetry Review

John Bonanni serves as founding editor of the Cape Cod Poetry Review. He is the recipient of a scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a residency from AS220 in Providence, RI. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Assaracus, Verse Daily, Hayden's Ferry Review, and the Seattle Review, among others.

Speakers

Alice Kociemba

Founding Director, Calliope Poetry Series

Alice Kociemba is the Guest Editor of Common Thread (2015 & 2016). She is the director of Calliope, a poetry reading series, with winter craft workshops, at the West Falmouth Library, now completing its ninth season. For the past six years, she has facilitated a poetry discussion group at the Falmouth Public Library. Alice's first poetry collection, Bourne Bridge, was released in March 2016 by Turning Point.