Poet Anne Colwell To Speak At March ESWA Meet

Award winning poet Anne Colwell will lead an interactive discussion on why writers read and write poetry at the Eastern Shore Writers Association meeting, at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 9, at the Bay Leaf Restaurant, 200 Broadkill Rd. in Milton, DE. (302. 684. 5200).  The program is open to the public.

Ms. Colwell addresses “why I write and read poetry and why I think more people should write and read poetry and not fear it.” Her presentation includes both a discussion of other people’s poems and reading from her own work. She leads some interactive exercises encouraging people to play with poetic forms and poetic inspiration.

Ms. Colwell, a poet and fiction writer, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her book of poems, Believing Their Shadows (Word Press), was a finalist for the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize, and the Quarterly Review of Literature. She received an Established Artist Award in Poetry and an Emerging Artist Award in Fiction from the Delaware State Arts Council. Her poems and stories have appeared in numerous periodicals. She is the poetry editor of The Delmarva Review. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband, James Keegan, and son, Thomas.

All writers and guests are welcome to attend this free event. An RSVP is notrequired, but always appreciated, to: [email protected].

The Eastern Shore Writers’ Association (ESWA) holds monthly writing programs, sponsors the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference every February, and publishes The Delmarva Review, a literary journal for all writers. As a nonprofit organization, it supports writers and the literary arts across the Delmarva Peninsula.

For more information, see the ESWA website www.easternshorewriters.org, or write Hal Wilson, President, ESWA, P.O. Box 1773, Easton, MD 21601.

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