[Yale-readings] September 17: Valerie Lawson Reading

[Kuhl, Nancy]

WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES
Featuring Valerie Lawson

Thursday, September 17, 2009
6:30 PM

Doors Open at 6:30.  Reading starts at 7:00.
Please arrive a few minutes early to sign up for the reading.

The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT



Valerie Lawson has won awards for her poetry and performance at the Cambridge Poetry Awards and has been twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Dog Watch, her first full-length collection of poems was published in 2007 by Ragged Sky Press. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about winter in far Downeast Maine.

Lawson was the slammaster of the Bridgewater Poetry Slam at the Daily Grind Coffeehouse and a co-host of the Boston Poetry Slam. Lawson's involvement in Boston area youth slams included the New England Scores slam and coaching an all-girl team that went to the YouthSpeaks National Slam. Lawson has traveled to Europe and the UK to perform poetry and helped host the Swedish Slam Nationals in 2002. Lawson was a participant in Optimal Avenues, a mixed-media cultural exchange between Massachusetts and Ireland, celebrating the United Nation's International Decade for the Culture of Peace.  She has performed her poetry at First Night Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts Fringe Festival, at the Bank of Ireland Center and Mansion House in Dublin, at the Swedish National Poetry Slam, and regularly at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater with Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Show. In 2008, Lawson was invited to the First Women of the World International Poetry Slam in Detroit as a Legacy Poet.

Lawson, along with her partner Michael Brown, co-edits the literary journal Off the Coast (www.off-the-coast.com<http://www.off-the-coast.com>).

On the third Thursday of each month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public and even others. For more information, please contact allwordofmouth at gmail.com<mailto:allwordofmouth at gmail.com> or mcguireschwartz at gmail.com<mailto:mcguireschwartz at gmail.com>.  Get current information from our website, at the following link:

http://sites.google.com/site/wordofmouthpoetryseries/Home

Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and Literature Laboratory. Please visit the ALL website at allgallery.org<http://allgallery.org/>

Please also support our sister series, Wednesday Night Poetry Series and visit the WNPS website at wedpoetry.net<http://wedpoetry.net/>


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