Midnight Voices this Thursday 17 Nov 7pm Friends Meeting Cambridge please foward
Please Forward, see you there! Peace Eric
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The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them
at night and when the clock counts.
- Archibald MacLeish
Calling all poets, slammers, wordsmiths, lyricists, rappers, misfits and anyone who has the gift of gab! Warrior Writers, in conjunction with the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Cambridge Friends Meeting, Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace and Veteran-Friends, will host MIDNIGHT VOICES, a monthly collaborative coffeehouse, spoken word, and poetry series, on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month’s featured reader is KEVIN BOWEN.
Kevin Bowen
Kevin Bowen’s poetry collections include: Playing Basketball with the Vietcong, Forms of Prayer at the Hotel
Edison, Eight True Maps of the West, and Thai Binh/Great Peace. He has worked as editor and translator on
numerous collections of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Zen Poems from Early Vietnam. From 1985-2011
he was director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass Boston.
He is co-editor with Nora Paley of A Grace Paley Reader, forthcoming from Farrar Strauss and Giroux in spring
2017. In 2011 was awarded the Phan Chu Trinh Award for contributions to Vietnamese Culture. He has fellowships from the NEA in poetry, and from Mass Council for arts in Fiction and poetry and is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize.
After the featured reader, there will be 5-minute open mic slots available to anyone. We encourage first timers and seasoned performers to come out. We are actively seeking featured readers for upcoming months. For more information, please contact Eric Wasileski at ericwasileski@gmail.com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1346517665366970/
The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them
at night and when the clock counts.
- Archibald MacLeish
Calling all poets, slammers, wordsmiths, lyricists, rappers, misfits and anyone who has the gift of gab! Warrior Writers, in conjunction with the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Cambridge Friends Meeting, Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace and Veteran-Friends, will host MIDNIGHT VOICES, a monthly collaborative coffeehouse, spoken word, and poetry series, on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
This month’s featured reader is KEVIN BOWEN.
Kevin Bowen
Kevin Bowen’s poetry collections include: Playing Basketball with the Vietcong, Forms of Prayer at the Hotel
Edison, Eight True Maps of the West, and Thai Binh/Great Peace. He has worked as editor and translator on
numerous collections of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Zen Poems from Early Vietnam. From 1985-2011
he was director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass Boston.
He is co-editor with Nora Paley of A Grace Paley Reader, forthcoming from Farrar Strauss and Giroux in spring
2017. In 2011 was awarded the Phan Chu Trinh Award for contributions to Vietnamese Culture. He has fellowships from the NEA in poetry, and from Mass Council for arts in Fiction and poetry and is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize.
After the featured reader, there will be 5-minute open mic slots available to anyone. We encourage first timers and seasoned performers to come out. We are actively seeking featured readers for upcoming months. For more information, please contact Eric Wasileski at ericwasileski@gmail.com.
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