Sunday May 24, Dawn Potter and Martin Steingesser read at River Arts in Damariscotta, Maine. River Arts is doing good things for the arts and can be found by clicking on the title of this post.
Martin is Portland, Maine's first Poet Laureate, 2007 - 2009. Author of "Brothers of Morning" published by Deerbrook Editions in 2002, is usually active teaching writing workshops in Maine schools, Martin is also performing his new work "The Thinking Heart," an ensemble performance work in two voices, with cello, based on the writings of a Dutch woman, Etty Hillesum, who died in the Holocaust.
"The Thinking Heart" CD is being released by Old Port Records. Listen to a short feature, with excerpts from "The Thinking Heart" here.
Dawn Potter, author of "Boy Land & Other Poems" published by Deerbrook Editions in 2004, recently received a writing fellowship, and has a Milton memoir "Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton" out from the University of Massachusetts Press. Dawn is also active as associate director of the "Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching" in Franconia, New Hampshire, as a free lance book editor, and teacher of creative writing. Scroll down to post 4/7/09 for more, or go through the archive above. Dawn was interviewed by Sewanee Review. This is the link from the Sewanne site map but it doesn't seem to be working now, and tags cannot contain tags (to the interview) on the blog. Sorry. We will investigate.
UP COMING APPEARANCES for Dawn Potter
Book signing, MWPA's Books & Blooms, Boothbay, ME, July 11 MWPA
Poetry workshop, MWPA fall retreat, Haystack, Deer Isle, ME, Sept. 11-13
"Poets Writing Memoir," reading with Elizabeth Garber, Belfast Free Library, Belfast, ME, Sept. 29
Reading with Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn, October 13
Visiting writer, Stonecoast MFA program, January
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