New England College is excited to team up with the New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) to kickoff the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry program's 10th Anniversary. Poetry AND Politics is the theme of the first New Hampshire Book Festival sponsored by NHWP. NEC will host two poet laureates, Walter E. Butts, New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, and Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate, a high school student from John Stark Regional High School who participated in this year’s Poetry Out Loud program, and three MFA poets: Janet Barry ’07, Ivy Page ’09, and Dawn Coutu ’12 on Friday, October 14, 2011 from 12:00-3:00pm. This event will be held in the Great Room of the Simon Center at New England College and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Cristy McGuinness at CMcGuinness@nec.edu or (603) 428-2906.
For further information and complete participant bios, click here.
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