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Poetry Monday: Gigi Marks
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POETRY MONDAY: January 4, 2015

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Gigi Marks

Welcome back, everyone, and Happy New Year!

We have some lovely new poems for you this morning.

Gigi Marks lives in Ithaca, New York.  Formerly a professor at Ithaca College, she now works with a range of people, aged 8 to 90 plus, who would like to develop their writing “with craft and authenticity.” Her other interests, she tells us, “are more home-based, with a family who all help to raise gardens, bees, sheep, a couple of goats, and a variety of small mammals.”

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Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!
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Start 2015 right –
at the 4th Annual Winter Program Keynote!
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Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute
YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address

YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar David Fishman tells the dramatic story of how poets Kaczerginski and Sutzkever rescued YIVO’s treasures from the Vilnius Jewish Continue reading Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!

POETRY MONDAY: November 3, 2014
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Carolyn Kizer                                             Galway Kinnell

Once again, instead of presenting a new poet, this column needs to pause for memorial. We seem to be losing, in short order, our whole “greatest generation” of American poets. Earlier this year it was Maxine Kumin at 88 and now, at 89, Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: November 3, 2014

A Note to Readers of Poetry Monday
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A Note to Readers:

For those of you who visit the Berkshires — or are considering doing so — you might consider stopping in at the Good Purpose Gallery, Main Street, Lee, MA, on Thursday, October 16th. Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, and another poet, Jim Kelleher, will be reading from their own work at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Books by Irene Willis will be available at a special discount for those who identify themselves as readers of Poetry Monday. Please do come, and say hello.

POETRY MONDAY: October 6, 2014
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Norma Sheard

Born in Harlingen, New Jersey, a small rural town near Princeton, Norma Sheard began writing as a young girl. Her topics drew upon the landscape of farm and family life, as they do now. A regular contributor to the rich poetry community in and around Princeton, she now lives on Deer Isle, Maine, where she continues to write and to sing in a choir, something she has done for many years. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: October 6, 2014