November Calliope Poetry Reading

Calliope, a community for poets, will present its next reading on Sunday, November 8 from 3 to 5 PM at West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway. Featured poets are Mary Kane, Alan Feldman, Kirun Kapur, and Jenifer Browne Lawrence. A $5 donation is suggested.

Mary Kane of Falmouth is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, “Door” (One Bird Books, 2013), and two chapbooks, “She Didn’t Float” and “After We Talk About the Recent Deaths of Our Parents and about Compassion as Handled by Chekhov.” Her poems have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal as well as on Poetry Daily and Poem of the Moment (masspoetry.org). She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches writing at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Alan Feldman’s latest collection, “Immortality” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015), was awarded the Four Lakes Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including “The Best American Poetry,” and in the 2016 edition of Common Threads, the poetry discussion project of Mass Poetry. He is a summer resident of Wellfleet and offers free, drop-in poetry workshops at the Wellfleet Public Library.

Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry (2012) and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, “Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist” (Elixir Press, 2015). She is the founder and director of the North Shore arts program, The Tannery Series, and has taught creative writing at Boston University. She was recently named an “Asian-American poet to watch” by NBC News.

Jenifer Browne Lawrence is the author of “Grayling” and “One Hundred Steps from Shore.” Her awards include the Orlando Poetry Prize, James Hearst Poetry Prize, Potomac Review poetry award, and a Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Most recently, her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review, Narrative, North American Review, and Rattle. She was raised in Alaska, works in civil engineering, and lives on Puget Sound in Washington, where she edits Crab Creek Review.