Next Friday July 5!

Join us Friday, July 5 for a free poetry reading in the garden behind the Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Maine. Steve Luttrell will be reading with Bruce Holsapple. Steve is the author of over ten books of poetry and founded The Café Review over thirty years ago. He continues today as our publishing editor. Bruce works as a Speech-Language Pathologist in central New Mexico. He received a Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo in 1991, working with Bob Creeley, and has taught at New Mexico Tech and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. His published chapbooks include Air-Rose, Total Eclipse, Tourist, Observations and Much Adieux. He edited Contraband for ten years in Portland, Maine in the 1970’s and is now editor of Vox Audio. His poems have appeared in House Organ, Blue Mesa , First Intensity, and Sin Fronteras.

Our sponsors for this event include the Maine Historical Society (and if you haven’t checked out their beautiful garden before, this is a great opportunity to see their fabulous oasis set right in the middle of the city) and the Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland. The Harbor Square Gallery represents Michael Waterman, whose painting, Book of Dreams, graces the top of our posters for the event.

Where: Garden of the Longfellow House, Portland, Maine

When: 6:00-7:30, Friday, July 5

Free to the Public. Light freshments will be served.