POETRY READING: DOROTHY ANDERSON AND PAM BERNARD
WALPOLE TOWN LIBRARY
MONDAY, APRIL 21 @ 7 PM
FREE  /  REFRESHMENTS
Contact:  Pam Bernard at pam@pmbernard.com or 603-756-4177
                Frankie Knibb, Walpole Librarian, 603-756-9806

To celebrate National Poetry Month, two Walpole poets will read from their work at the Walpole Town Library, co-sponsor of the event, Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m.

Dorothy B. Anderson, a retired family therapist, has lived in Walpole for twenty years, with her husband, Paul Galloway, a tree farmer.  Anderson grew up in China and came to this country in 1948.  Her parents were refugees from Nazi Germany.  She has two grown children.  Anderson served on the board of directors for The Frost Place and is currently working with new director, Jim Schley, on a history of this a nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts based at Robert Frost’s old homestead, in Franconia.  Anderson, who started writing poems in high school, has two books published: a chapbook titled By The Yangtse and a full-length collection, published in 2006, entitled Light Entering My Bones. Several journals have published her work, including Dine, Edison Literary Review, Comstock, and Wooster Review. Poets who have influenced her include Alan Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mary Oliver.

Pam Bernard, poet, painter, editor, and teacher, received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Graduate Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and AB from Harvard University in History of Art.  Among her many awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships in Poetry, and a MacDowell Fellowship.  TriQuarterl, Prairie Schoone, Salamander, and the Marlboro Review are among the many journals in which her poems can be found.  Her most recent full-length collection of poetry is entitled Across the Dark.  Her current manuscript of poems, entitled Blood Garde, chronicles a New England youth who finds himself in the trenches of WWI France.  Bernard, who teaches creative writing at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, and her husband Harry, a web designer, are recent émigrés from Boston; they have lived in Walpole for three years