Calliope, a Community for Poets, meets at West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, on the third Sunday of the month from 3-5pm, and includes three featured poets followed by an open mic. The November 17 reading will feature Shelby Allen, Susan Nissenbaum-Becker and Gary Whited.There is a $5 suggested donation to fund the poets’ stipend, and refreshments will be served. Open mic sign-up begins at 2:45pm.
Allen is reading from her first collection, Crack Willow: Poems of Transformation (Cherry Grove Collections). Her poems and essays have been published in Sanctuary, New Millennium Writings, The Lucid Stone, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Christian Science Moniter. Allen is the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from Universities West Press and the Boston Herald Poetry Prize, among other honors.
Playwright, actor, arts organizer and poet Nissenbaum-Becker is reading from her just released, first book of poems, Little Architects of Time and Space (WordPress, October 2103). Nissenbaum-Becker’s poems have been published in Comstock Review, Phoebe, Poetry East, Salamander and other journals. Her work was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. She has been awarded writing fellowships at Canada’s Banff Center for the Arts, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.
Whited is a poet philosopher and psychotherapist. Having Listened, Whited’s first collection of poems was published by Homebound Publications in September 2013. From James Powers’, author of Saving the Farm, review: “In Having Listened, Gary Whited guides the reader to a time and place that evokes the very essence of his experience growing up on the prairie of Eastern Montana. Through his eloquence and imagery, Whited brings the reader to a deeper understanding of the spiritual beauty and sorrows of that life and thus a deep universal connection to it.”
For more information about Calliope visit www.calliopepoetryseries.com
