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May 17, 2008, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Brockton Library, 304 Main Street, Brockton, MA

The Brockton Poetry Series offers a free venue with workshop, open reading, features and refreshments once a month. The featured poet for the month of June is X.J. Kennedy.

Sponsored by The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts, Inc

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Featured Poet: Jared Smith May 10, 2008, 5 pm - 7 pm 80 Border Street Cultural Exchange Center, 80 Border Street, East Boston, MA  Free Higganum Hill Books will be launching the new book of poetry by critically acclaimed poet, Jared Smith, The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations. Jared will read from his new book and inscribe copies. There will be light refreshments. Sponsored by Higganum Hill Books Info:617-418-5060 info@80borderstreet.org http://www.80borderstreet.org Deborah Rasa at the Poetry Zone New Mexican poet Deborah Rasa and Perie Longo, Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara. May 10, 2008, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA New Mexican poet Deborah Rasa will read her newly published poem, "Shohko" (Sage Trail Magazine, April 2008). Rasa's edgy, juicy performative poetics, alternately prophetically bold and metaphorically tender, are based on her forthcoming book, "Sexing the Divine, A Poetics of Sacred Desire" [RedThread Press, 2008], from which she will read additional select poems culled from her series titled, "Rinzai Zen." Her impassioned readings performatively delivered have already wowed audiences in the UK and Australia. Info:805.403.0567 http://www.deborahrasa.com