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April is National Poetry Month

Celebrate at the historic Pickering House April 8

Celebrate National Poetry Month at the historic Pickering House with readings by Kristine Doll (world languages and cultures), JD Scrimgeour (English) and Linda Dini Jenkins. Join them on April 8, 2018 12:30 at the Pickering House, 18 Broad Street, Salem MA.

Kristine Doll is the author of the poetry collection Speak to Me Again; “My Friends” from this book was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is also a translator of Catalan poetry, including her translations into English of Joan Alcover’s Elegies and the poetry of the contemporary Catalan writers, August Bover and Teresa D’Arenys. 

Her translations and her own poetry have been published internationally in such venues as The Seventh Quarry, Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides, The Paterson Literary Review, Gargoyle andImmagine i Poesia.?

J.D. Scrimgeour is the author of the poetry collections The Last Miles and Territories, and he won the AWP Award for Nonfiction for Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In & Out of Class. With musician Philip Swanson he released Ogunquit & Other Works, a CD blending music and poetry. His third poetry collection, Lifting the Turtle (Turning Point), appeared in November 2017.

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