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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">2012 ROSE GARDEN READING<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Featuring poets Lonnie Black and Peter Gizzi<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Saturday June 23, Noon<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Pond House, Elizabeth Park, Hartford CT<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Lonnie Black was the driving force behind Northeast Magazine’s interest <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">in and publication of poetry and has been named co-founder of the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Named a Master Teacher Artist by the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Lonnie has served as poet in the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">classroom on every level from elementary through post-secondary. Lonnie <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">lectures and conducts creative writing workshops/master classes <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">throughout Connecticut. He is also an English As-A-Second Language <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Instructor and Creative Writing Instructor for Litchfield Performing <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Arts. In 1991 Mr. Black became Poetry Director of Artworks Gallery and <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">created the program of 'Three Connecticut Poets' and he’s now carrying <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">the program (in its twentieth year) at the West Hartford Art League.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, including <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Threshold Songs (2011), The Outernationale (2007), and Artificial Heart <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">(1998). He has been poetry editor for The Nation as well as founding <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">co-editor, with Connell McGrath, of o•blék: a journal of language arts. <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">He has also edited The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Jack Spicer (1998), and has co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) with Kevin Killian. Gizzi has <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">won the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">American Poets as well as fellowships from t he Howard Foundation, the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Rex Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Amherst.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Free Event.</span></tt><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Part of the Rose Festival at Elizabeth Park in Hartford<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.elizabethpark.org/rose_weekend.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">http://www.elizabethpark.org/rose_weekend.htm</span></a></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">This event bought to you by the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.stevenspoetry.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">http://www.stevenspoetry.org</span></a></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">For more info contact</span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></tt><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Jim Finnegan</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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