Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat,
tells the story of journalist, Mike Pride’s relationships with several
poets who lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont from the
1970s through the present. Mike transformed the New Hampshire newspaper
The Concord Monitor into
a prizewinning paragon of regional journalism, mentoring generations of
reporters and editors, defying the trope about the dying small-town
newspaper and exerting an outsize impact on his profession. He carved
out for himself, “The Poetry Beat,” befriending poets including Charles
Simic, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Hayden Carruth, Wes
McNair, and Sharon Olds, among many others, whom he wrote about with
regularity. Sadly Mike died before his “poetry memoir” Northern Voices
was published. But in true Mike-style, he completed the manuscript and
readied it for press.-- Publisher's blurb
"BOOKport" Local Author Celebration in NewportThe Richards Free Library is having a local author
celebration this Saturday, March 16th, 2024 from 10-2:00 pm. They will be hosting 11 authors from
around the Newport, NH area and throughout NH. The featured authors write everything from poetry
to children's books, and more!
Derry Author Fest 1 2 3 Grow!
Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 10 am to 4 pm at the Derry Public Library Derry Author Fest is a day of writing workshops, panels and networking for aspiring authors, dreamers and dabblers alike. As an attendee, you can stay all day, half day, or just drop in for a session. Book sales and signings are interspersed in between workshops, so you will have time to buy books, support local artists and get some face time with teachers.
This year’s keynote speaker is Virginia Macgregor: Virginia was brought up in Germany, France, and England by a mother who never stopped telling stories. Her early years were those of a story-scribbling, rain-loving child. Her debut novel What Milo Saw was published to great acclaim and has so far been translated into 12 languages. She is also the author of The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells, Before I Was Yours, Wishbones, You Found Me, As Far As the Stars, and The Children’s Secret.
See the schedule and register to attend at: www.derryauthorfest.wordpress.com
Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees: A Celebration of New England's Eccentrics and Misfits by Stephen Gencarella (Globe Pequot, 2018)Incredible Stories of the Prophets, Vagabonds, Fortune-Tellers, Hermits, Lords, and Poets Who Shaped New England. New
England has been a lot of things—an economic hub, a cultural center, a
sports mecca—but it is also home to many of the strangest individuals in
America. Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees explores and celebrates the
eccentric personalities who have left their mark in a way no other book
has before. Some folks are known, others not so much, but the motley
cast of characters that emerges from these pages represents a
fascinating cross-section of New England’s most peculiar denizens. Look
inside to find:
- Tales
of the Leather Man and the Old Darned Man, who both spent years
crisscrossing the highways and byways of the northeast, their origins
and motivation to remain forever unknown.
- The
magnificent homes of William Gillette and Madame Sherri, famed
socialites who constructed enormous castles in the New England
countryside.
- William
Sheldon’s apocalyptic prophecies and wild claims including that the
American Revolution had hastened the end of the world and that he
could—through his mastery of the “od-force”—prevent cholera across the
eastern United States.
- The
mysterious fortune-teller Moll Pitcher whose predictions, some say,
were sought by European royalty and whose fame made her the subject of
poems, plays, and novels long after her death.
Stretching
back to the colonial era and covering the development and evolution of
New England society through the beginning of the twenty-first century,
this book captures the rebel spirit, prickly demeanors, and wily
attitudes that have made the region the hotbed for oddity it is today. --Publisher's blurb
The Dog Who Ate the
Vegetable Garden & Helped Save the Planet by Margaret Hurley (Guernica World Editions, 2019) Using idiosyncratic broken sentences, a cross-genre stream-of-consciousness narrative told by a cheeky vegan dog named Dori—a real dog—whose zany and opinionated take on humans’ treatment of animals is ironic, quirky, funny, sad, maddening, and deadly relevant. Autobiography, history, and science are woven into the narrator’s adventures to reveal and explain the destructive effects of eating animal flesh and secretions on humans and animals, and on the planet--that farming and slaughtering trillions of animals for food, annually, is the leading cause of environmental destruction (including Global Warming) and that eating animals causes the vast majority of debilitating and deadly illnesses in humans.-- Publisher's blurb
About the author: Margaret (Meg) Hurley is an eco-feminist, animal-rights activist and vegan. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and lives in New
Hampshire with her husband (retired attorney), who is also an animal-rights
activist and vegan.
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