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Calliope Poetry Reading at West Falmouth Library

Calliope, a Community for Poets, will stage its next monthly reading at West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, from 3 – 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12. The event will include three featured poets – Kathleen Aguero, Richard Hoffman and Robin Smith-Johnson. Sign up for the open mic is at 2:45. A suggested donation of $5 will fund the poets’ stipend. 

Aguero’s fifth poetry collection, After That was just released by Tiger Bark Press. Her previous books include, Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth, Daughter Of, The Real Weather and Thirsty Day.  She has co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press.  She is a winner of the 2012 Firman Houghton Award from the New England Poetry Club and a recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Elgin-Cox Foundation.  Aguero teaches Creative Writing in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Pine Manor College and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program. 

Hoffman is the author of the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award, and Emblem.  His poems have appeared in Agni, Harvard Review, The Literary Review and Poetry, among other journals.  He is the author of the memoir, Half the House, as well as the short story collection Interference & Other Stories.  His new memoir,Love & Fury will be published by Beacon Press in June. Hoffman teaches at Emerson College. 

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Smith-Johnson’s first volume of poetry, Dream of the Antique Dealer’s Daughter was published in December 2013 by WordTechPoetry. Her poems have appeared in The Aurorean, CAPEWOMEN, The Larcom Review, Sandscript, Voices International, Yankee Magazine and elsewhere.  She grew up in Orleans, and currently works as the newsroom librarian at the Cape Cod Times and teaches at Cape Cod Community College. She is the co-founder of the Steeple Street Poets, and lives in Mashpee. 

For more information about Calliope visit calliopepoetryseries.com.

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