This Sunday WORDS OUT LOUD welcomes Burlington poet Daniel Lusk and author and shamisen musician Janet Pocorobba, all the way from Kent Hill Road!, to the Old West Church for readings beginning at 3 O'Clock followed by a reception for authors and listeners down at the Kent a titch after 4:00.
We'll hear some poems with lyrical threads woven in and we'll hear some memoir read with strings plucked and tones sung.
Please join us for this, the final Sunday in our Fall series this year!

Daniel Lusk is the author of six collections of poetry. His most recent books are The Shower Scene from Hamlet (Maple Tree Editions, an imprint of Phoenix Books, 2017) and The Vermeer Suite (Wind Ridge, 2015), which features poems based on the masterpieces of seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, with full-color images of the works that inspired them. Lusk has received numerous accolades, including a 2016 Pushcart Prize, the Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, and a Pablo Neruda Poetry Award, as well as grants and literary fellowships from the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Arts Endowment, the University of Vermont, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Daniel is married to Irish-American poet Angela Patten, who read at Words Out Loud in 2018.

Janet Pocorobba is Associate Director of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program at Lesley University where she teaches nonfiction, and where she received her MFA in 2006. A former writer and contributing editor at Metropolis magazine in Tokyo, Pocorobba has had memoirs, essays, and reviews published in The Rumpus, Harvard Review, The Writer, Kyoto Journal, and elsewhere. Her memoir, The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me, was published by Stone Bridge Press in March 2019. She lives in Calais, Vermont, where she is writing a book about women, her local co-op in Adamant, and community.

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