Uncommon Words at Common Street Gallery

(Waterville, ME) On Friday, January 27th at 7:00 pm, Common Street Gallery will host a reading by poets Patrick Donnelly, Rachel Contreni Flynn, and Dawn Potter. The authors’ books will be available for sale and signing, and a reception will follow the reading.

(Image: Patrick Donnelly)

About Patrick Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly’s books are The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012). Donnelly is director of the Advanced Seminar at The Frost Place, a poetry conference center at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH. He has also taught at Colby College, and the Lesley University MFA Program, and is an associate editor of Poetry International and a contributing editor of Trans-Portal. With Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly is co-translator of the Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period, a scholarly history and analysis forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series. (Patrick Donnelly on the web).

(Image: Rachel Contreni Flynn)

About Rachel Contreni Flynn
Rachel Contreni Flynn was born in Paris and raised in a small farming town in Indiana. Her second full-length collection of poetry, Tongue, won the Benjamin Saltman Award and was published in 2010 by Red Hen Press. Her chapbook, Haywire, was published by Bright Hill Press in 2009, and her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song, was published in 2005 by Tupelo Press after winning the Dorset Prize. She was awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007. Her work has often been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and she received two literature grants from the Illinois Arts Council. She has taught poetry at Northwestern University and is on the editorial board of the Beloit Poetry Journal. She recently moved to Gorham, Maine with her husband and their two children.

(Image: Dawn Potter)

About Dawn Potter
Dawn Potter is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and the author of three collections of poetry, most recently How the Crimes Happened (CavanKerry Press, 2010). Her memoir Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009) won the 2010 Maine Literary Award in Nonfiction and an Emerging Writer's Fellowship from the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. New poems and essays appear in the Sewanee Review, the Threepenny Review, Guernica, and many other journals. She lives in Harmony, Maine.

Common Street Gallery is located at 20 Common Street in Waterville. For more information, please visit commonstreetgallery.com or call 207-749-4368.

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