Event

A Night of Readings for National Poetry Month

SPACE and The Telling Room present a night of readings in observance of National Poetry Month. Jeffrey Thomsons third book of poems, Renovation, was part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press poetry series in 2005. An assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington, he has a recent chapbook, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, from RopeWalk Press. The evening will begin with a series of community members reading their favorite poems. Readers will include Jill McGowan, apparel designer and founder of her own clothing company; Sam Hayward, chef and owner of Fore Street; Chris Bowe, co-owner of Longfellow Books; Jill Duson, Portland City Councilor; Francisco Andreu, Director of the Cambalache Spanish Center on Woodford's Corner, and Carlos Gomez, who will read a poem in the language to which they have dedicated their lives, Spanish; Alfred Jacob, who works at Portland High and directs Aserela Maine, a chorus that raises money for schools in refugee camps in Southern Sudan; and a Telling Room writer currently in eighth grade.
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