| 2010 Schedule |
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| January 9th: Best New Poem of the New Year Contest |
A New Poem, any subject, 6 minute limit, Cash prizes |
| February 13th: David Kosinski & Henry Long |
David Kosinski is the 2009 winner of the Dogfish Head Brewery
Poetry Chapbook competition for his entry "Loopholes".
Henry Long has
published 12 chapbooks of poetry and has done hundreds of poetry
readings for over 30 years . Henry
won the Delaware Division of the Arts 2002 Individual Artistic
Fellowship Grant as an Emerging Professional in Poetry. He will be
reading selection from his new work "Comedy/Tragedy/Poetry".
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| March 13th: Cathleen Delia Scarpitti & Abby Millager |
Cathleen Delia Scarpitti won the Best New Poem of the New Year
contest held in January by 2nd Saturday Poets. www.literarymama.com
Abby Millager www.abbymillager.com
"provocative, thoroughly engaging" -J. Allen
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| April 10th: |
Jeffrey Little and Josiah Bancroft |
| May 8th: |
Robert Hambling Davis |
| June 12th: |
Judy Kronenfeld |
| July 10th: |
Franetta McMillian, reading from her work-in-progress, GOODBYE,
JAMBALAYA |
| August 14th: |
Irma Seabury |
| September 11th:
John Amen
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Poet, Singer/Songwriter and Artist, John
Amen is the author of three collections of poetry: Christening the
Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003), More of Me Disappears
(Cross-Cultural Communications 2005), and At the Threshold of
Alchemy (Presa 2009), and has released two CDs, All I’ll
Never Need and Ridiculous Empire (Cool Midget 2004, 2008). |
| October 9th:
Two
Talented
Sisters:
Wendy Ingersoll &
Gail Sezna
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Gail Sezna resides in Wilmington, Delaware.
Her book My Boys (Grief Illustrated Press) is her second
published work and won the nonfiction division of the Delaware Press
Association 2010 Communications Contest, as well as third place in the
National Federation of Press Women 2010 Contest.
Previously she won first prize in the 2006 Rehoboth Writer’s
Guild Competition for her essay “Not Today”.
Gail holds an RN degree from Syracuse University and works in
cardiac rehab.
Wendy Ingersoll is a piano teacher residing
near Hockessin, Delaware. Her
book of poems Grace Only Follows was recently published by March
Street Press, and was awarded first place in both the 2010 Delaware
Press Association Communications Contest and the 2010 National
Federation of Press Women Communications Contest.
Her chapbook River, Farm was published in 2005 by Bay Oak
Publishers. Her poems
have appeared in Caesura, Worcester Review, Potpourri, Controlled
Burn, The Broadkill Review and others; have won first prize in the
Milton Poetry Festival 2009, Delaware Literary Connection 2009 and 2008,
and Rehoboth Writers Guild 2007; and
won Honorable Mention in the Passenger 2010 Poetry Contest.
She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and has three grown
children and four grandchildren. www.wendyingersoll.com
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| November 13th |
TBA |
| December 11th |
TBA |
