The final WORDS OUT LOUD reading
for this Fall, held at the newly preserved, beautifully re-steepled Old West Church!,
will be Sunday, September 30, 2018,
at 3 O'Clock
when we will welcome writers Rick Agran and Elena Georgiou.

These two presenters are engaging communicators of the written and spoken word. Both write in a number of genres, and their recent work addresses the immigrant experience.

Rick Agran is producer and host of the Bon Mot poetry program on WGDR radio. He also teaches documentary journalism and digital storytelling for WGDR's Indie Kingdom Youth Radio program, and has taught writing widely for decades, in small rural public schools, universities, and art colleges, and most recently in Burlington's Old North End, working with a multicultural community of students from 12 countries. Agran is the author of "Pumpkin Shivaree," a children's picture book, and a collection of poems, "Crow Milk," and lately has been exploring his own family's multicultural makeup and ancestral immigration backstories. He lives in Worcester, just over the Calais/Worcester Road.

Elena Georgiou, an English-Cypriot originally from London, lives in Vermont, where she is Program Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College. Author of the recently published short-story collection, "The Immigrant's Refrigerator," and two poetry collections, "Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants" and "mercy mercy me," she coedited (with Michael Lassell) the poetry anthology "The World in Us." Georgiou is a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Grafton.

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