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National Poetry Month Programs

 

constancebridges2compress.jpgCelebrate National Poetry Month at Willingboro Public Library with poetry programs by two African American poets. Dr. Herman Beavers will discuss African American Poetry of the 20th Century on Thurs., Apr. 16 at 7 p.m. Constance Quarterman Bridges will read her poetry on Sun., Apr. 19 at 2 p.m. An open mic will follow. Both programs are free and open to the public.

Dr. Beavers teaches in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chapbook of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His most recent poems have appeared in Callaloo, Cross Connect, and Peregrine.

Ms. Bridges received a 1999 and 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her poetry and is the 2005 National Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for an original first book by an African American poet, Lions Don't Eat Us . A native of New Jersey, a quilter and doll maker, Ms. Bridges began her writing career after early retirement as a Program Analyst for the Treasury Department.

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