Poetry Sundays presents the delightful
X.J. Kennedy ,all the way from Boston, who will read on Sunday,
April 6th, from
2-4 PM at the Great Neck Village Hall, Great Neck, LI. Sponsored by the Great Neck Arts Center and hosted by Carolyn Raphael . $5.00 admission includes refreshments. For directions,
www.greatneckplaza.net/directions/htm, for more information,
www.greatneckarts.org (See Performance).
Recognitions for Kennedy include include the Lamont Award of the Academy of American Poets (for his first book, Nude Descending a Staircase in 1961), the Los Angeles Book Award for poetry (for Cross Ties: Selected Poems, 1985), the Aiken-Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry (given by the University of the South and The Sewanee Review), Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships, the first Michael Braude Award for light verse (given by the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters to a poet of any nation), the Shelley Memorial Award, the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club, honorary degrees from Lawrence and Adelphi universities and Westfield State College, the National Council of Teachers of English Year 2000 Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry, and in 2004 the Poets’ Prize (for The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992-2002).
And …
Poetry Sundays presents the the fine actress Shirley Romaine,who will perform poems from “Intimate Encounters,” a program of selected works by poets including Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Sunday, May 4th, from 2-4 PM at the Great Neck Village Hall, Great Neck, LI. Sponsored by the Great Neck Arts Center and hosted by Carolyn Raphael . $5.00 admission includes refreshments. For directions, www.greatneckplaza.net/directions/htm, for more information, www.greatneckarts.org (See Performance).
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