Rozzie Reads Poetry: Featured Poets and Open Mic
Thursday, January 21, 2016
7 pm to 9 pm
Roslindale House, Community Room, 120 Poplar Street
Sponsored by Friends of the Roslindale Branch Library, a free event, contributions voluntary, refreshments provided
Parking on Hawthorne and Poplar streets, in unnumbered spaces, and at rear of building.
Featured Poets
Susan Nisenbaum Becker’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Plainsongs, Phoebe, Salamander, Comstock Review, Poetry East, Lumina, Consequence, Calyx, Slipstream, and Talking Writing among others. A playwright, actor and arts organizer, she has received Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants on behalf of the Herring Run ArtsFest, and has been awarded fellowships at Banff Center for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony and Ragdale Foundation. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was the Joiner Institute’s Jeff Male Memorial reader and a guest for Authors Without Borders’ on New Bedford Cable TV. Her first full-length book of poems is Little Architects of Time and Space (Word Poetry 2013). Nisenbaum Becker lives in the Boston area and is a psychotherapist in private practice. wwwsusannisenbaumbecker.com
Alan Albert has been a finalist and semi-finalist in poetry in the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship Program and has recently been awarded Artist Residencies from The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta and The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Albert has taught poetry writing and creative writing at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry East, Southwest Review, and Kansas Quarterly. His first book, Fragments of the Natural, is published by WordTech Communications. Albert works as a clinical psychologist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. He lives with his partner Susan Nisenbaum Becker in Dedham./h3>
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