A reading Series at the Cambridge Arts Council every two months featuring poets, and writers of Cambridge, and on occasion special guests. The first presentation is scheduled for Monday September 14, 2009, 7:00 PM. Each presentation will be filmed with the support of CCTV to be aired at the station on future dates. Presented by Jean-Dany Joachim
Molly Lynn Watt, an educator and a poet, curates Fireside Monthly Reading Series, now in its 10th year, serves as poetry editor of HILR Review and Bagels with the Bards Anthologies 1, 2, 3 & 4. She and Daniel Lynn Watt created and perform George & Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War, published on CD, with script to be published later this year by Cervena Barva Press. In 2007 Ibbetson Street Press published Shadow People. She is currently writing a series of poems set in the Civil Rights Movement, is published widely, reads at many venues and was a finalist for the inaugural Poet Populist position in Cambridge.
Philip Burnham grew up in New England, served as Vice Consul in Marseille, France, under JFK, then spend the balance of his professional life teaching Medieval History in the Boston area. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, including The Aurorean an Lyric, and one was recently read on the Writer’s Almanac. I have published four books of poetry, the most recent, A Careful Scattering (Cervena Barva Press, 2007).
Marcia Ross has lived in Scotland, England, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia, and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has worked as a radio and print journalist, an antiques dealer, a waitress, typist, editor, and farm stand cashier. She supports a distinguished scientist at MIT and teaches English Literature part time at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poems and essays have appeared in Vanguard, Halifax Magazine, The Fourth Estate Newspaper, Canadian Antiques & Arts Review, and The Dalhousie Review. Ms Ross recently completed a novel, Leda and the Lake, and is working on a collection of poems.
John Clifford is a Vietnam veteran and native of Somerville. While he was in Vietnam’s DMZ, he wrote several poems and left with a Purple Heart. After living in Cambridge for a while, he bought the Green Street Grill, which he owned and managed for 20 years. The creator and director of the Central Square World Fair, he has always been an advocate for the arts and the community.
MARILÈNE PHIPPS-KETTLEWELL is a painter, a poet and a short story writer who was born and grew up in Haiti. Her website can be viewed at www.marilenephipps.com. She has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, and at the Bunting Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and has been a recipient of a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. In 1993, she won the Grolier prize for poetry. Her poetry collection Crossroads and Unholy Water (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) won the 1999 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize (also a finalist for the Walt Whitman prize from the Academy of American Poets). Her poetry was published in England by Carcanet Press Ltd, England in the anthology of seven Caribbean poets titled, “New Caribbean Poetry”.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Molly Lynn Watt, Elizabeth Quilan and Edie Aronowitz Mueller feature at Newton Public Library Poetry Series Kickoff, September 8, 2009 at 7 pm
The 2009-2010 poetry series will open on Tuesday, September 8 at 7:00 pm and will feature poets Molly Lynn Watt, Elizabeth Quinlan and Edie Aronowitz Mueller. Their readings will be followed by an open mic with a limit of one poem per person. Come early to sign up for the open mic; limited slots are available, time permitting. For more information visit http://www.newtonfreelibrarypoetryseries.blogspot.com/. The series is facilitated by Doug Holder of Ibbetson Street Press.
Molly Lynn Watt is a progressive educator for peace and justice, as well as the curator for the monthly Fireside Poetry Reading Series. Her collection of poetry, Shadow People, was published in 2007. A visual artist specializing in the book arts, Elizabeth Quinlan's recent work, Stories of the Grandmother, a sculpture/book, is a collection of collages, found objects, photographs and stories. Edie Aronowitz Mueller's poems have won numerous awards. Her first book, The Fat Girl and Other Poems, was published in 2008.
Molly Lynn Watt is a progressive educator for peace and justice, as well as the curator for the monthly Fireside Poetry Reading Series. Her collection of poetry, Shadow People, was published in 2007. A visual artist specializing in the book arts, Elizabeth Quinlan's recent work, Stories of the Grandmother, a sculpture/book, is a collection of collages, found objects, photographs and stories. Edie Aronowitz Mueller's poems have won numerous awards. Her first book, The Fat Girl and Other Poems, was published in 2008.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Where Have I Been?
My wonderful new macbook has had an intermittent problem with accessing the internet, hospitalized for replacement parts, it now seems to work... I have missed posting the spring Fireside Readings, and readings I have been involved in... sometimes Facebook is just easier to use. But now all is up and running... I will try to stay current with my upcoming events from here on out.
Sept 8th, Tuesday, I read at the Newton Library at 7
Sept 14th, Monday, I read at the Cambridge CAC Gallery at 7
Join me there for some new poems on civil rights, perhaps my new poem about attending a dineh wedding of a friend in her grandmother's hogan will be ready to try out. I'd love to see you!
Sept 8th, Tuesday, I read at the Newton Library at 7
Sept 14th, Monday, I read at the Cambridge CAC Gallery at 7
Join me there for some new poems on civil rights, perhaps my new poem about attending a dineh wedding of a friend in her grandmother's hogan will be ready to try out. I'd love to see you!
Lydia Awarded Gates Millenium!
My granddaughter, Lydia, is the First CRLS Senior Awarded Gates Millenium Scholarship- I am soooo proud!
This spring, Lydia Curliss became the first CRLS senior to earn a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship and is one of just two high school seniors in all of Massachusetts this year to receive this honor.
The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS), established in 1999, was initially funded by a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential.
Tomorrow she leaves for Oberlin!
This spring, Lydia Curliss became the first CRLS senior to earn a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship and is one of just two high school seniors in all of Massachusetts this year to receive this honor.
The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS), established in 1999, was initially funded by a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential.
Tomorrow she leaves for Oberlin!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Ellen Steinbaum & David Surette Read at Fireside March 24 @ 7:30
Cambridge Cohousing Presents The Fireside Reading Series
Molly Lynn Watt, Curator
Ellen Steinbaum & David Surette read Tues, March 24, 2009
ELLEN STEINBAUM, a poet and journalist, has been a popular featured reader both nationally and throughout the Boston area. She writes a literary column for The Boston Globe and is also the author of a one-person play, CenterPiece, which she has performed. In her first book, Afterwords, she looked at loss, with poems about the illness and death of her husband. Her new book, Container Gardening speaks of what is perishable and what endures and what makes us who we are. The poet Lloyd Schwartz says, " In Container Gardening the losses we suffer—private, public, political, natural—are universal. But she knows, with wry certainty, that “what is broken can / (never) / be repaired / the pieces can / (not) / be put back.” Definitely one or the other. ...The contained garden of her poems becomes a conscious strategy to deal with all those—all our—losses.
DAVID SURETTE’s new book of poetry is Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In. Surette’s poems have recently appeared in the anthologies French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets and Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses. He is a contributing editor at Salamander and taught poetry at this year’s Cape Cod Writers’ Conference. He co-hosts Poetribe, a poetry series in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
The reading begins with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
DIRECTIONS! The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Richard Curran, Jenise Aminoff and Dan Lynn Watt, webmagicians, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiewonsky, Debbie Pfeiffer and many others on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. Thank you all for contributing! The reading is held in the living room in front of the fireplace at Cambridge Co-Housing at 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request to the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu, or www.cambridgecohousing.org/Fireside/index.html
Molly Lynn Watt, Curator
Ellen Steinbaum & David Surette read Tues, March 24, 2009
ELLEN STEINBAUM, a poet and journalist, has been a popular featured reader both nationally and throughout the Boston area. She writes a literary column for The Boston Globe and is also the author of a one-person play, CenterPiece, which she has performed. In her first book, Afterwords, she looked at loss, with poems about the illness and death of her husband. Her new book, Container Gardening speaks of what is perishable and what endures and what makes us who we are. The poet Lloyd Schwartz says, " In Container Gardening the losses we suffer—private, public, political, natural—are universal. But she knows, with wry certainty, that “what is broken can / (never) / be repaired / the pieces can / (not) / be put back.” Definitely one or the other. ...The contained garden of her poems becomes a conscious strategy to deal with all those—all our—losses.
DAVID SURETTE’s new book of poetry is Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In. Surette’s poems have recently appeared in the anthologies French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets and Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses. He is a contributing editor at Salamander and taught poetry at this year’s Cape Cod Writers’ Conference. He co-hosts Poetribe, a poetry series in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
The reading begins with a short open mike. Come at 7 PM to help set up, sign up for open mike and nosh and schmooze. Following the reading you are invited to a wine and cheese reception. (A donation of $3 is requested to help with the cost.)
DIRECTIONS! The Fireside Reading Committee is Molly Lynn Watt, curator, Richard Curran, Jenise Aminoff and Dan Lynn Watt, webmagicians, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiewonsky, Debbie Pfeiffer and many others on logistics, and the writers who come month after month. Thank you all for contributing! The reading is held in the living room in front of the fireplace at Cambridge Co-Housing at 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, 3 blocks from the Red Line stop at Porter Square. A request to the City of Cambridge allows out-of-town visitors to park on Richdale Avenue from 6:30-10:30 PM. Contact Molly Lynn Watt, 617-354-8242, mollywatt@comcast.net or Jenise Aminoff, 617-576-2004, jenise@alum.mit.edu, or www.cambridgecohousing.org/Fireside/index.html
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
I'll be reading on Feb. 19th from Shadow People!
Hope you can join at Gallery 55 in Natick at 7:30 pm at 55 South Main Street, for more information, phone another Molly, Molly Saccardo at 508-740-0260. Open mic follows plus refreshments!
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