@ SCARRITT-BENNETT
The 4th Thursday of every month (except Nov. & Dec.)
7 - 8P
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts for a monthly reading by a featured local poet. The environment is informal and conversation between the poet and audience is encouraged.
The Front Porch @ Scarritt-Bennett
1000 19th Ave. S. (corner of Grand and 19th)
gallery F. and The Front Porch gift shop, bookstore, and coffee bar will be open from 6:30 - 8:30p.
More info: Call 615.340.7540 or email jsohl@scarrittbennett.org
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POET’S CORNER CALENDAR
UPCOMING FEATURED POETS
Check back for more for poet bios and updates
as they become available.
2010
JULY 22 - BRETT JENKINS
AUG. 26 - LESLIE COLLINS
SEPT. 23 - CHRISTINA STODDARD
OCT. 28 - BILL BROWN
NOV. 18 - ANNE DOOLITTLE
DEC. 16 - KELLY FALZONE
2011
JAN. 27 - DAVID TILL
FEB. 24 - HEATHER DOBBINS-COMBS
MARCH 24 - STEPHANIE PRUITT
APR. 28 - LISA DORDAL
JULY 22 - BRETT JENKINS
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins lives in Indiana with her brother and her cat. She is currently earning her MFA from Bennington. Look for her work in Anderbo, Writers' Bloc, PANK, The Medulla Review, and elsewhere.
AUG. 26 - LESLIE COLLINS
Leslie Collins works as a physician and has a preference for things that begin with p: paint, poems, pitchers of baseball, prisoners, a puppy named Daisy, the psalms, and pleasant pals. Not included in the list are psoriasis, pride and peas. You are welcome to contact her at lesliecollins06@comcast.net.
SEPT. 23 - CHRISTINA STODDARD
Christina Stoddard’s poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Cave Wall, Tar River Poetry, Slipstream, and The Texas Review, among others. In 2010 she was a participant at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A former assistant poetry editor of The Greensboro Review and the International Poetry Review, she is currently Managing Editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, an economics journal.
OCT. 28 - BILL BROWN
Bill Brown is a part-time lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has authored four poetry collections, three chapbooks and a textbook. His two current collections are Late Winter (Iris Press 2008) and Tatters (March Street Press 2007). His newest collection, The News Inside, will be released by Iris Press in late 2010. Recent work appears in Prairie Schooner, Tar River Poetry, English Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Connecticut Review.
NOV. 18 - ANNE DOOLITTLE
Anne is an MFA graduate of The Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Her poems have appeared in The Boston Review, Zuzu’s Petals, and Many Mountains Moving. Her reviews have appeared in Calyx, and Pif Magazine, where she was the poetry editor. She has taught in the Nashville Metro schools and at Harpeth Hall School. She resides in Nashville and Truro, Massachusetts.
DEC. 16 - KELLY FALZONE
Reviewer Robert Peters of The Small Press Review calls the poetry of Kelly Cass Falzone "...original, unsparing and brutal." Her work has appeared in publications such as Clackamas Literary Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Poets On:, Journal of Poetry Therapy, Squaw Valley Review, and the anthologies Essential Love and Low Explosions: Writings on the Body. Named a finalist in both the Berry College Emerging Southern Women Writers Competition and the "Discovery"/The Nation contest, Kelly has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded prizes and recognition from the Tennessee Writers Alliance, the Knoxville Writers' Guild, the Chester H. Jones Foundation, and the Unterberg Poetry Center. A member of both the Key West Writers Workshops and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Kelly has studied under such master poets as Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Gerald Stern and Kate Daniels.
A Master's Level clinician with over twenty years experience working with youth and families, Kelly now works as an editor, writing coach and teaching artist in Nashville, Tennessee where she facilitates her Swim with Words writing workshops. Kelly was founding director of The Parthenon Prize for Fiction and is currently a member of Art & Souls Co-op and poet mentor for YouthSpeaks Nashville. Having performed on stage in Atlanta's Ladyfest South, GreenRoom Projects' Conjure Women, Actors' Bridge Ensemble's New Works Lab, and in collaboration with poets Minton Sparks and Ami Mattison, Kelly most recently directed an evening of YouthSpeaks Nashville's 2010 Spoken Word Census to rave reviews.
Although born in the Bronx and raised in Rochester, New York, Kelly has lived in Nashville for seventeen years with her songwriter/activist husband, Ross Falzone, and their son, Rosario. Writers and readers may contact Kelly at kellyfalzone@bellsouth.net.
JAN. 27 - DAVID TILL
FEB. 24 - HEATHER DOBBINS-COMBS
MARCH 24 - STEPHANIE PRUITT
APR. 28 - LISA DORDAL
