Calliope Poetry Readings

Calliope: Poetry for Community will conclude its ninth season on Sunday, May 15th with a special reading and reception at the Library featuring poets Brendan Galvin, Georgia Popoff, and Calliope’s founding director, Alice Kociemba. The event will begin at 1pm. with a reception/reading to celebrate the launch of Kociemba’s new book, Bourne Bridge, followed by readings from Galvin and Popoff. The readings end at 3pm, after which there will be book signings by the authors. No open mic on this date. $5 suggested donation.

Using humor and memory to celebrate people and place, Alice Kociemba is the author of the chapbook Death of Teaticket Hardware, and her first poetry collection, Bourne Bridge, was just released by Turning Point Press (2016)-. Alice is the founding director of the Calliope Poetry Series, now in its ninth season. She is the first poet to receive a Literary Award from the Cape Cod Council of International Reading Association for promoting literacy through poetry. Photo: Kathleen Casey.

Brendan Galvin lives in Truro and is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965-2005 (LSU Press) was a finalist for the National Book Award. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation (England), the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Poetry’s Levinson Prize, as well as the first OB Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Georgia Popoff is a board member of the Comstock Writers Group and the managing editor of the group’s literary journal, The Comstock Review. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997), and Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press, 2015). She also co-authored, with Quaraysh Ali Lansana, Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, and Social Justice in Classroom and Community, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She lives in Syracuse, New York.