JP CENTRE/SOUTH MAIN STREETS
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CONGRATULATIONS
PETAL AND LEAF
for winning the
BOSTON MAIN STREET
BEST BUSINESS AWARD
in the Centre/South Business District
FIRST THURSDAY – July 2nd
32 art openings on Centre and South Street
FEATURING
Music by Ferris Muller Day of off on the patio at JP Licks
Group shows at the Prudential Unlimited Reality Office and the Hall Way
Boston Handmade at Curtis Hall
The Loring Greenough House
Music by Rick Berlin and Pop County
Group show art show featuring Nick Kent & Mark Johnson
“Word on the Street”
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Start the holiday weekend with some poetic fireworks!
Featuring
• Readings by Carolyn Gregory and Alice Kociemba
• A fun open mic with various poems, poets and lovers of poetry. All are invited to read their own or someone else’s work.
Free, with refreshments.
Where: 633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain in the double-wide trailer on the front lawn of First Baptist Church of JP at the corner of Myrtle and Centre Streets (across Myrtle from the JP post office). Accessible by the #39 bus or straight up Green Street, five blocks from Green Street Station on the Orange Line.
Carolyn Gregory, a Jamaica Plain resident, has published poems and classical music reviews in “American Poetry Review,” “Seattle Review,” “Pemmican,” “Ibbetson Street,” “Bellowing Ark,” “Main Street Rag,” “Poesy,” “Art Times,” “The Aurorean” and “Stylus.” Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Foundation award, she has published two chapbooks. Her book, Open Letters, was published in 2009 by Windmill Editions. She has conducted workshops and given readings in Boston, New York and Michigan. She is a member of Jamaica Pond Poets and the New England Poetry Club.
Alice Kociemba grew up in Jamaica Plain and returns here to write and enjoy the city. She lives and works as a psychotherapist in Falmouth. She is the director of Calliope—Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library, a monthly poetry series. She is working on her first volume of poetry, Seizure, and Other Disorders. Her poems have appeared in various journals, such as “Plainsongs,” “Slant” and “Roanoke Review,” and one has won an International Merit Award from the “Atlanta Review.” Alice is also a member of Jamaica Pond Poets.
Word on the Street is part of First Thursday’s arts nights on Centre and South Streets in Jamaica Plain during the summer. The poetry readings are sponsored by JP Centre/South Main Streets in collaboration with Jamaica Pond Poets. Admission is free.
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