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SUMMARY:Poetry on the Edge: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Poetry Reading by Kathleen Ellis and Annaliese Jakimides\nKat
 hleen Ellis grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and her most recent po
 etry collections are Outer-Body Travel\, Narrow River to the North\, and B
 ody of Evidence\, which won the 2022 Grayson Books Poetry Contest. Her poe
 ms have recently appeared in The Café Review\; Rumors\, Secrets\, and Lie
 s\; A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis\; and Enough
 !: Poems of Resistance and Protest. Poems from her manuscript “Dear Darw
 in” were set to music and released as a Parma Recordings CD\, nominated 
 for a 2015 Grammy Award. A recipient of the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from
  Nimrod magazine and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts 
 and the Maine Arts Commission\, she teaches poetry and creative writing at
  the University of Maine in Orono. Ellis also coordinates the annual POETS
 /SPEAK! event in Bangor.\n“From its first poem\, Body of Evidence enrapt
 ured me with its stark\, sharp\, accessible language that reaches through 
 histories\, cultures\, and languages to make something tangible and heartf
 elt from our often ephemeral\, if not wholly elusive\, human connections.
 ” —John Sibley Williams\, judge of the Grayson Books Poetry Contest an
 d author of a dozen poetry books\, including The Drowning House\nAnnaliese
  Jakimides is a writer and mixed-media artist who grew up in inner-city Bo
 ston and raised a family on 40+ acres in northern Maine\, growing almost a
 ll their food and pumping water by hand. Cited in national competitions an
 d nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net\, her poetry and pr
 ose have been broadcast on Maine Public and NPR\, and included in many jou
 rnals\, magazines\, and anthologies—most recently\, Breaking Bread\, th
 e winner of two 2023 Maine Literary Awards. Her poems have been published 
 in Beloit Poetry Review\, Solstice\, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices o
 n the Climate Crisis\, and more. Work is forthcoming in Maintenant\, Poem
 s from Here\, and Waterwheel Review. Her artwork Perfectly Flawed in the
  Crack of Time is the cover of Ellis’s award-winning Body of Evidence.\n
 \n\n“Annaliese Jakimides is a singular talent. Her writing is rich\, spa
 re\, always thoughtful\, sometimes wrenching\, and deeply honest. I am a h
 uge fan!”  —Christina Baker Kline\, New York Times bestselling auth
 or of Orphan Train\, A Piece of the World and The Exiles\, among othe
 rs.
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