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An Evening of Verse at The Butterfield Library
The Julia L. Butterfield Library will host an evening of verse with nationally-known poets Frannie Lindsay and Paul Violi on Monday, June 18, at 7pm. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. This reading is free to the public.
Frannie Lindsay lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of Lamb (Perugia Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Intro Award, and Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004), which was selected by J.D. McClatchy as the winner of the May Swenson Award. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her poems have appeared individually in The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Field, Salamander, Beloit Poetry Journal, and many other journals. Pulitzer Prize recipient Franz Wright says, "Frannie Lindsay's poems employ a mysterious, shattering simplicity in the service of things deeply and authentically felt."
Paul Violi, a Putnam Valley resident, is the author of eleven books of poetry including Overnight (Hanging Loose Press, 2007), Breakers (Coffee House Press, 2000), Fracas (Hanging Loose Press, 1998), and Splurge (Sun Press, 1982). He has received the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry as well as grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The Fund for Poetry, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and many other awards. He currently teaches in the New School's graduate writing program and at Columbia University. American Book Review asserts: "Deft, magical, filled with light, Violi's poetry is pure pleasure. . .These are poems of one who seems to love life, despite its abundant absurdities, and to love poetry."
The Butterfield Library is grateful for a 2007 Putnam Arts Fund Award from the Putnam Arts Council (PAC) that made this reading possible. PAC is not-for-profit cultural service organization that supports the work of artists and promotes cultural enrichment activities for individuals throughout the region. PAC is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and with public funds from Putnam County.
To register for this event, call the Butterfield Library at 265- 3040 or email the program coordinator at mcgrathm@bestweb.net. The Library is located at 10 Morris Avenue in Cold Spring, near the intersection of Route 301 and Route 9D.
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