Poetry Reading with Pamela Harrison - "Glory Bush and Green Banana" at NWPL Tues. 5/8, 6 p.m.
"Glory Bush and Green Banana," Poems by Pamela Harrison. The elegant evocation of place and tender recollections of memory make Pamela Harrison's "Glory Bush and Green Banana" as crystalline and flawless as an unspoiled sea.
Tuesday, May 8, 6 p.m.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Pamela Harrison is a graduate of Smith College and the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing. Winner of the 2002 PEN Northern New England Discovery Award, she was invited to read her poems at the Library of Congress in 2003. Harrison has written five collections of poetry, including her most recent, "Glory Bush and Green Banana," which recounts her family's year-long adventure in 1985 volunteering for Project HOPE on the tiny Caribbean island of Carriacou. Adjunct professor in English Literature and Creative Writing for Dartmouth College, Ms. Harrison has won fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Norwich, VT.
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