Poetry Café – February
Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby

Poetry Café – February

February 7, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Hosted by MV Poet Laureate
ARNIE REISMAN
FAN OGILVIE
(Arnie is on vacation)

Joined by Poets
Chris Legge
Judith Neeld
Rose Styron
Emma Young

$10 at the door, cash only
Price includes a beverage and a slice of PIE CHICKS pie.

Poetry Café – February

Chris Legge
A grateful member of the Cleaveland House Poets, Chris has been quietly perfecting his unique form of story poetry on the island he loves. Soon to release his first Book, 'A Whither in the Twile', Chris ties the past and the present,mixing rhyme with metaphor, inviting the reader to wander and wonder down the path of his making.
Judith Neeld
Judith is the former Director of the Martha's Vineyard Writer's Workshop for the Nathan Mayhew Seminars, and served as the Chair of the Cleaveland House Poets (18 years). She is the former Editor/Publisher (16 years) of Stone Country, a national journal of poetry and criticism. Judith has five published books of poems and is published in numerous magazines and anthologies. In 2009, she had eight of her poems published in the book entitled, Wednesday's Poets, an Anthology; and in 2012, her poetry was published as a "Sunday Afternoon Poem" on AOL's Martha's Vineyard Patch. Judith's poetry was honored nationally when she received the coveted Poetry Society of America's "Emily Dickinson Prize".
Rose Styron
Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator and international human rights activist. She's published four volumes of poetry (Viking, Rizzoli), and traveled widely for Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, chairing AIUSA’s National Advisory Council, PEN's Freedom to Write Committee and the RFK Human Rights Award. A variety of her articles appeared in national periodicals on her involvement. In 2009 and 2010 Rose was a resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and its Carr Center for Human Rights. Recently she has written introductions to Letters to My Father (LSU Press) and The Selected Letters of William Styron (Random House), also editing the latter. Her essays and book chapters are published from time to time. With Meryl Streep, she co-chairs Poetry and the Creative Mind on stage at Lincoln Center on behalf of the Academy of American Poets each April. Beyond Conflict, with its new emphasis on neuroscience and conflict resolution, interests her greatly. Rose’s new volume of poems Fierce Day will be published this November. She is currently working on a memoir.
Emma Young
Emma is a designer, printmaker, and writer living on her native Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts, where she serves as poet laureate of the town of West Tisbury.
Fan Ogilvie
In 2008 "YOU" selected poems and "KNOT: A life" was published. In 2016 " EASINESSES FOUND" poems and paintings was published. Fan has taught English and poetry in Washington, DC, New Haven, CT, New York City, NY, and Martha's Vineyard, MA. She was selected to be the 2nd Poet Laureate of West Tisbury, Ma. And worked for three years at the Dukes County House of Correction, where two volumes of poetry by the inmates were published. She is now the facilitator of Cleaveland House Poetry Workshop, the oldest continuous poetry group in the USA.