2017  PathwaysARTS, Featherstone Center for the Arts & Noepe Center for Literary Arts is proud to present:  Summer Solstice Celebration Hosted by Margaret Emerson Outdoor Stage Bring your own lawn chair and refreshments. Free event. Donations welcome.   $10 admission Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and his new collection Noon until Night. His other books include the celebrated Half the House: a Memoir, published in a 20th Anniversary Edition last year, the 2014 memoir Love & Fury, and the story collection Interference and Other Stories. His work, both prose and verse, appears in such journals as Agni, Barrow Street, Consequence, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, The Manhattan Review, Poetry, Witness and elsewhere. A former Chair of PEN New England, he is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College in Boston. Wednesday, August 9 at 7 pm  $20 admission Seats are available on a first come basis on the day of the event beginning at 6:00PM  $20 admission Seats are available on a first come basis on the day of the event beginning at 6:00PM Tuesday, August 22 at 5 pm A memoriam for the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker and Carl Sandburg: Readings by Arnie Reisman, Fan Ogilvie and Jennifer Smith Turner Hosted by Arnie Reisman Admission $10  As the weather warmed up in 1967 - fifty years ago this summer - three giants on the landscape of American verse - passed into history: Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker and Carl Sandburg. Three very different voices, yet three very distinctive American voices. They left us with poems of inspiration, perspiration and wit. They gave us observations, perceptions and truisms. They gave us pictures of life in this country as it approached the mid-twentieth century. They gave us something to think about. In terms of poetic forms, they played with tradition and created their own styles. To showcase what we lost 50 years ago, poets Jennifer Smith Turner, Fan Ogilvie and Arnie Reisman will present a reading Tuesday, August 22, at Featherstone at 5pm. Bunch of Grapes Bookstore will offer poetry books for
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