JoAnne Growney: DC area: 7/6/09

Long-time Pennsylvania poet JoAnne Growney will read in the Word Works' Cafe Muse Series on Monday, July 6, at 7:30pm.

The Cafe Muse Series is held at the Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Avenue in Chevy Chase, MD. Classical guitar by Mike Davis begins at 7 pm; featured readings start at 7:30pm. Open poetry mic follows.

Other events in this series:

• May 4: Judy Neri & Anne Harding Woodworth
• June 1: Wayne Miller & Eric Pankey
• July 6: sculptor Mark Behme & poet JoAnne Growney
• August 3: Luis Alberto Ambroggio & Yvette Neiser Moreno

Hosts: Adele Steiner & Laura Goldberg. For directions, call 301-656-2797.

The Word Works web site can be found at http://www.wordworksdc.com/.

Common Wealth Reading: DC: 8/6/07

Café Muse presents Barbara DeCesare, Joanne Growney, Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple.

The Word Works, in collaboration with Friendship Heights Village, presents at Café Muse on Monday, August 6, poets Barbara DeCesare, JoAnne Growney, Marjorie Maddox, and Jerry Wemple in a publications reading for COMMON WEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Friendship Heights Village Center is located at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. All Café Muse programs are free to the public and handicapped accessible. Café Muse opens at 7pm with refreshments and classical guitar music by Michael Davis; readings begin at 7:30.

BARBARA DECESARE is a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee.
JOANNE GROWNEY’s chapbook, My Dance is Mathematics, was published in 2006 by Paper Kite Press.
MARJORIE MADDOX’s short story collection, What She Was Saying, was a finalist for the 2005 Katherine Anne Porter Book Award.
JERRY WEMPLE, co-editor of the Common Wealth anthology, is an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Attending poets are invited to participate in an open reading that concludes the Café Muse program. A sign-up sheet will be available at 7:00 pm. The Word Works is a nonprofit literary organization publishing contemporary poetry in artistic editions and sponsoring public programs for more than 30 years.

JoAnne Growney: Bloomsburg: 10/10/06

Poet JoAnne Growney will be the featured River Poets reader on Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 PM at the Phillips Emporium in Bloomsburg. Copies of Growney's most recent book, My Dance Is Mathematics (Paper Kite Press), will be available.

There is an open reading during the second half of this event; MC is Susan Brook.

This event is free and open to the public.

Common Wealth Reading: Bloomsburg: 3/22/06

Several contributors to a new anthology featuring poems about Pennsylvania will read at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in Multipurpose Room B, Kehr Union at Bloomsburg University.

Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania was edited by Jerry Wemple, an associate professor in the Bloomsburg University English Department, and Marjorie Maddox, director of the creative writing program at Lock Haven University. The book, published by Penn State Press, received favorable reviews in The Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other publications. Among the readers for the event are award-winning poets Harry Humes (a BU alumnus), Sandra Kohler, and JoAnne Growney (a former BU faculty member). Several recent alumni who either contributed a poem to the book or who served as editorial interns will also take part in the reading.

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