PRETTY BROOK SPEAKER SERIES: An Afternoon of Wine and Poetry
Join us at Pretty Brook to hear Harvard Alum and published poet Vasiliki Katsarou discuss her life as a poet, and share selections from her published and new poetry.
Date: Sunday, February 8th, 2015
Time: 2:00PM
Place: Pretty Brook Tennis Club, 229 Pretty Brook Road, Princeton, NJ
Vasiliki Katsarou was born and raised in Massachusetts to Greek-born parents, and educated at Harvard College, the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, and Boston University. Her first collection, Memento Tsunami, was published in 2011 and one of its poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry Daily, wicked alice, Press 1, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Agave Magazine, and Regime Magazine (Australia). Her poems have also been featured in the anthologies Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place; Rabbit Ears: TV Poems; and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, for which she also wrote the introduction. Vasiliki has worked in film and television production in France and Greece, and written and directed an award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, about the Transcendentalist utopian community. She is the founder and director of the Panoply Books Reading Series in Lambertville, New Jersey. Most recently, Vasiliki was honored to be one of seventy national and international poets invited to read her work at the largest poetry festival in the country, New Jersey’s 15th biennial Dodge Poetry Festival.
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Organizer: Mike McLaughlin
Cost: No cost to dues paying members and their guest
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