2009 Schedule of Events
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Newburyport Pedicab will be on hand on Saturday to aid people in getting
to our different venues. This is a free service, but tips are appreciated and will help
support the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. http://www.newburyportpedicab.com/
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Friday 6:00 PM
The Firehouse Center
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Opening Ceremony
And so the 2009 Newburyport Literary Festival begins…
The authors, the volunteers, and you, the readers, will all come to celebrate reading for a lifetime. A warm welcome to everyone will be followed by Rhina Espaillat’s tribute to Dottie LaFrance, one of this year’s honorees, for her 30 years of service as head librarian at the Newburyport Public Library.
Then comes the great conversation—an opening night tradition. This year, award-winning best-selling international author of both adult and young adult fiction, Julia Alvarez, will be in conversation with Jon Peede, Director of Literature for the National Endowment of the Arts.
Presenters: Rhina P. Espaillat, Julia Alvarez, and Jon Peede
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Friday 7:30 PM
Nicholson Hall
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Join us for Dinner with the Authors!
Tickets $50.00
Buffet and cash bar
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Poetry
Saturday 8:30 AM
Central Congregational
Church Social Hall
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Coffee with the Poets
Start the Festival with coffee and a taste of a variety of new books: Patricia Callan’s Out of the Case: Instruments on the Analyst’s Couch; Rhina P. Espaillat’s Her Place in These Designs; Alfred Nicol’s Elegy for Everyone; Jose Reyes’s Imaginary Numbers; Deborah Warren’s Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit; Daniel Waters’ Skunk Night Sonnets and Chicken Fingers; and Richard Wollman’s A Cemetery Affair.
These are poets who moonlight as sculptor, professor, playwright, barista, lunatic and lover—but they’ll be wide awake to pour something stronger than caffeine into the morning.
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Fiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
Old South Church
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Dear Reader, Dear Publisher, Dear Me.
Local authors Aine Greaney, Elisabeth Brink, and Frank Schaeffer discuss the impact that real or imagined audiences have on their writing. Who do you write for? Who should you write for? What are the conflicts between creativity and the marketplace? How can these tensions be resolved in earlier and later drafts and in one's own evolving identity as a writer? A panel discussion with short readings. Bring your questions and comments.
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Fiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
Greek Orthodox Church Annunciation
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Sisters as Friends – Friends as Sisters
Join DeLaune Michel, author of The Safety of Secrets, and Ellen Meister, author of The Smart One, in a conversation about their latest novels. Both writers explore the bonds forged in childhood and the challenges of keeping those friendships strong through the complications of adulthood. Michel and Meister dig into the deep, enduring complexity of female relationships, whether sisters in spirit or sisters by blood.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
City Hall
Council Chambers
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Women at the Helm—Journeys at Sea
The sea has a long history of being a man's domain. So what inspired each of these women to embark on a voyage at sea on their own? What did they learn about the sea, and themselves, along the way? Why is it that so few women consider themselves seafarers? Tania Aebi, author of Maiden Voyage and I've Been Around, and Mary South, author of The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water, will share tales from their travels, read from their work and discuss how the sea inspires their writing.
Moderator: Kate Yeomans
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Fiction/Nonfiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist Church
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Writing about Family: Fiction or Nonfiction? A Conversation between Friends
Joan Wickersham, author of the memoir The Suicide Index, and Julia Glass, whose latest work of fiction is I See You Everywhere, are friends who met in college more than thirty years ago. Coincidentally, their recent best-sellers draw intimately on their respective family histories, a challenge they discussed as they were writing these two books. Today they'll talk about what that process was like, what similar and different decisions they made along the way and why. In the era of the fraudulent memoir, where do you draw a line between telling your "true stories" and reframing the past to create a powerful work of fiction? What are the pitfalls, anxieties, and real-life repercussions of choosing to write so close to the heart?
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Fiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
Firehouse Center
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Stories of Ordinary Lives Told By Extraordinary Writers
Join David Crouse, author of The Man Back There: Stories, Lewis Turco author of The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories, and Andrew McNabb, author of The Body of This, as they talk about the short story form and the characters they have nurtured onto the page.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
The Book Rack
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Meredith Hall Reads From Without a Map: A Memoir
Meredith Hall reads from her bittersweet memoir about making peace with the son she placed for adoption when she was a teenager. Without A Map: A Memoir is a story of loss, forgiveness and healing.
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Fiction
Saturday 9:00 AM
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
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Eric Kraft Reads from Flying
Eric Kraft reads the final installment in his Flying trilogy. Get ready to laugh as Kraft “mixes boy-wonder high jinks with metaphysical musings, tall tales, and true love in a zany, heart-lifting escape from the everyday."—Donna Seaman, Booklist.
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Children
Saturday 9:00 AM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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It's a Bear... It's a Swan... It's a Lion!
Artist and teacher Ann McCrea presents this sculpting workshop for all kids aged 5-10 interested in unleashing their inner artist. To celebrate 2009 festival honoree David McPhail's Lost, McCrea will invite listeners to sculpt their favorite character—a bear, a swan from Boston's Public Gardens or one of the stone lions from Boston's Public Library—after hearing the story. A favorite with kids at Boston Public Library's Copley Square Branch, this workshop requires no previous sculpting experience, just imagination and a healthy dose of creative spirit.
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Young Adult
Saturday 9:30 AM
Program Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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The Big Splash
As any kid in middle school knows, social ruin is far easier to achieve than an A on a math quiz; one faux pas and you're done for. This is especially true at The Frank, where a missed shot from a squirt gun or forged hall pass in the wrong hands can spell disaster. Jack Ferraiolo, creator, writer and Emmy winner for “WordGirl” as well as author of The Big Splash offers drama, suspense and a whole lot of laughter as 7th grade ace detective Matt Stevens races to crack a case “with more twists than a candy addict on a swivel chair.” Hailed as “thrilling and entertaining” by The New York Times Book Review, and nominated for a 2009 Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category, Ferraiolo's debut novel is living up to its title—come find out why.
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Poetry
Saturday 10:00 AM
Central Congregational Church Social Hall
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The Names of Things: Poetry by Jeffrey Harrison
"There is no one else for whose poems--their tone and wording and overall approach to things--I feel greater sympathy and admiration." --James Merrill
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Nonfiction
Saturday 10:00 AM
The Book Rack
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Kristin Bierfelt reads from The North Shore Literary Trail: From Bradstreet's Andover to Hawthorne's Salem
From canonical figures like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Anne Bradstreet to little-known authors like the mystical poet Jones Very and seafaring autobiographer Ashley Bowen, Essex County and the adjacent Merrimack Valley have a rich literary history waiting to be discovered. Author Kristin Bierfelt will reveal the country roads and village haunts that have inspired the perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others in this delightful guide to the North Shore’s hidden literary history.
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Fiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
Old South Church
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The Mystery with History
Join Louis Baynard, author of The Black Tower, and David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife in a conversation about their research and story development process as they meld fiction with past events and characters. From the fate of Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette to Ann Elizabeth Young, estranged wife of Brigham Young, you'll hear compelling stories that join the past and present.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
Greek Orthodox Church Annunciation
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Oceans Under Siege
For all our reliance on the ocean, we know surprisingly little about it. Covering 71 percent of the earth’s surface, producing more oxygen than the rain forests, and providing more than 100 million tons of food per year, the world’s oceans make life possible. But few Americans understand the importance of the oceans to our health and well-being, and fewer still recognize that the oceans are under siege.
Two acclaimed marine conservationists will discuss the marine world as seen through the eyes of artists and writers. Author Deborah Cramer has been compared with Rachel Carson. Cramer's recent book, Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World, was called "inspiring" by the New York Times and reveals through photographs and lyrical writing how our lives and the ocean are inextricably linked. Richard Ellis is America’s foremost painter of marine natural history subjects and has authored numerous books and articles. His murals adorn the walls of the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Denver Museum of Natural History. Both authors will use images and words to explore why they do what they do.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
City Hall Council Chambers
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Memoirs with a Message: Moving from a Personal Life Experience to a Public Message
Julia Fox Garrison, author of Don't Leave Me This Way, and Meredith Hall, author of Without a Map: A Memoir, will discuss the moves writers make when their personal stories become public. What do readers want and expect? Does a life have to be extraordinary to be of interest? How do writers create meaning that reaches beyond the life events themselves?
Moderator: Karen Gold
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Fiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist Church
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Andre Dubus III Reads
Andre Dubus, the author of The House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reads from a new book in progress and a selection of personal essays. Come and listen to a preview of Andre’s new work.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
Firehouse Center
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Cheryl Richardson: The Writer’s Life
Join New York Times bestselling author, Cheryl Richardson, as she talks about the writing life: how to get started, developing discipline, creating a writing space, finding your voice, discovering your writing rhythm, and using writer's block to your advantage. There will be a Q&A period following her talk.
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Fiction
Saturday 10:30 AM
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
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Elinor Lipman Reads from The Family Man
Join Elinor Lipman, best-selling author of The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel’s Bed, and My Latest Grievance, for a reading from her latest novel, The Family Man. "A divorced gay man's vanquished paternalism returns when he reconnects with his long-lost stepdaughter in Lipman's hilarious and moving 10th novel. The plot alone will suck in readers, but Lipman's knack for creating lovable and multifaceted characters is the real draw." — Publishers Weekly. Winner of the The Poetry Center’s 2007 Paterson Fiction Prize, Elinor Lipman never fails to entertain.
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Children
Saturday 10:30 AM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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Drawing with Scissors
Judith Moffatt wields scissors on colored paper the way most people dream of using a pencil. Her amazing three-dimensional cut-paper illustrations in over 50 picture books, including ABC Animals, a Bedtime Story , have intrigued and delighted children everywhere. Join Judith Moffatt as she reads I Am a Caterpillar to young listeners before guiding them through an easy paper butterfly craft project.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 11:00 AM
The Book Rack
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Brenda Wineapple Reads from White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Brenda Wineapple's highly acclaimed White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Knopf 2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is the first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson—recluse, poet—and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, radical abolitionist. For almost a quarter of century, until her death in 1886, Dickinson sent Higginson dazzling letters and almost one hundred poems, many of them her best. "Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?" she wondered. She dared, and he did. White Heat is about poetry, politics, and love; it is, as well, a story of seclusion and engagement, isolation and activism—and the way they were related—in the roiling America of the nineteenth century.
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Young Adult
Saturday 11:00 AM
Program Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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The Inside Scoop: Julia Alvarez on Writing
Julia Alvarez's latest novel for young readers, Return to Sender, tells a contemporary tale of friendship and challenged loyalties between twelve-year-old Tyler, the son of a Vermont farm family and Mari, daughter of the Mexican family hired to help save their farm from foreclosure. Goodreads.com said, “In a novel full of hope but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.” Alvarez will share some secrets, like how she researched and wrote the novel, where she finds inspiration and how she tracks her characters down, creating an inviting world readers want to enter. Please join the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; In the Time of the Butterflies and other highly acclaimed novels to get the inside scoop on how a master storyteller weaves her tale.
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Poetry
Saturday 11:30 AM
Central Congregational Church Social Hall
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Intimacy Deserves a Closer Look: Poetry, History, Memory, and the Colonial Encounter: Poetry by Luisa Igloria
"These poems never let us forget they are wrought from an immigrant's love for family, country, and the history of the reinvented self."—Virgil Suarez
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Children
Saturday 11:30 AM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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Rocket Ride
Blast off with best-selling picture book author Mark Karlins as he takes children on an imagination-fueled rocket ship ride with Lorenzo, the budding young scientist and hero of Starring Lorenzo—And Einstein Too (April 2009). Karlins will offer a fun, age appropriate science experiment followed by an activity inviting kids to create their own special planets, deciding who will inhabit them and what life in outer space will be like.
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Poetry
Saturday 1:00 PM
Central Congregational Church Social Hall
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Closing Distance: A Mother/Daughter Collaboration in Poetry, by Melina Draper
"Argentinean poet Elena, and Melina, writing from Alaska, represent the antipodes of a mother-daughter relationship....Born from a loving collaboration, Place of Origin is a lovely, singular book."—Julia Older
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Nonfiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
Old South Church
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Take Me Back to Dear Old Newbury(port)
Bethany Groff, author of A Brief History of Old Newbury, and Elizabeth Welch, granddaughter of author J.P. Marquand, have wandered the world and come back to roost in Old Newbury (Newbury, West Newbury and Newburyport). Elizabeth's family was shaped by Marquand's complicated relationship with the place that attracted, repelled, and inspired him. Bethany spent happy months hearing the voices of her Newbury ancestors speaking out from the distant past in court records, town and church documents and rambling houses. In this wide-ranging discussion, Welch and Groff will discuss the power of this place and how literature and history enrich our experience of it. The audience is encouraged to share their story of coming home to Old Newbury.
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Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
Greek Orthodox Church Annunciation
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Anne Easter Smith Reads from The King’s Grace
For centuries people have debated the fate of the princes, Edward and Richard, in the Tower of London. Anne Easter Smith brings history to life as she reads from her fascinating novel told from the perspective of Grace Plantagenet, illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and half sister to the little princes.
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Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
City Hall Council Chambers
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Heidi Pitlor Reads from The Birthdays
On a rainy summer weekend the Miller clan gathers, for the first time in four years, at their summerhouse on an island off the coast of Maine to celebrate patriarch Joe's 75th birthday. Join Heidi Pitlor as she reads from her powerful family drama.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist Church
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The Truth about the Truth: Memory, Storytelling and Memoir
In this panel, three writers discuss the unique challenges of writing memoirs. The writers, who have published both fiction and memoirs, will discuss the subjectivity of memory, how they sift through myriad experiences and decide which ones are vital, and how they turn those experiences into compelling stories.
Moderator: Elizabeth Barrett
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Nonfiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
Firehouse Center
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Operation Homecoming
The NEA created Operation Homecoming in 2004 to help U.S. troops and their families write about their wartime experiences. Through this program, some of America’s most distinguished writers—including Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, Marilyn Nelson, and Richard Bausch—have conducted workshops at military installations and contributed to educational resources to help the troops and their families share their stories. A call for writing submissions has resulted in more than 12,000 pages of writing. Almost 100 of the submissions were featured in the anthology Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (Random House, 2006), edited by Andrew Carroll. The University of Chicago Press released an expanded paperback in 2008. The project continues with multi-week workshops for veterans in VA medical centers. For more details, visit www.OperationHomecoming.gov.
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Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
The Book Rack
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Brunonia Barry Reads from The Lace Reader
Join Brunonia Barry for a reading of her wildly successful novel, The Lace Reader. Barry weaves an engrossing, multilayered story with eccentric characters and sets it all in Salem, MA for a compelling reading and listening experience.
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Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
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Anita Shreve Reads from Testimony
Best-selling author Anita Shreve takes us into a world upended by scandal. The discovery of a student sex tape at the prestigious Avery Academy creates a wave of shame and recrimination throughout the community. Shreve deftly tells the story of how one moment in life can change everything.
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Children
Saturday 1:00 PM
Program Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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Show and Tell: How to Create a Graphic Novel
Ever thought your life was crazy enough to be a book but weren't sure how to put it into words, much less illustrate it? Award winning graphic novelist Katie Davis wants to help. Through interactive presentations and storytelling workshops, Davis gets kids excited about reading, writing and illustrating their personal stories. This hands-on session will teach kids 10 and older how to create their own “autobiogra-strips—autobiographical graphic journals just like the one Addy McMahon makes in Katie's new novel, The Curse of Addy McMahon. Think of a cross between a comic strip and a diary: think fun.
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Children
Saturday 1:00 PM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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Fit for a King: Building the Pharaoh's Boat
In 4500 BC, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, hundreds of Egypt's premier shipwrights labored to build an enormous vessel fit for their king. Join accomplished writer and illustrator David Weitzman as he takes us on an historically rich and accurate journey detailing this fascinating undertaking in his latest book, The Pharaoh's Boat. “In this beautifully written and illustrated account, David Weitzman weaves past and present into a truly satisfying story of technology and discovery, scholarship and craft.” - David Macaulay, author of The Way Things Work.
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Poetry
Saturday 2:00 PM
Old South Church, Social Hall
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Youth Poetry Slam
Come one, come all to the Annual Youth Poetry Slam. Poetry Slams were started at a Chicago jazz club by Marc Smith, a construction worker and poet, who wanted to bring poetry to life for contemporary audiences. In these competitive events, poets perform their work and are judged by members of the audience. Each poem must be written by the performer, be less than three minutes, and be performed without any props or costumes. Participants should come prepared with three poems, although we may only go through two rounds. Our SlamMaster, Simone Beaubien, is a decade-plus veteran of the New England poetry scene working as an EMT and hosting the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. Young adults ages 14 to 24 are invited to perform, and anyone over 14 is encouraged to attend. A slam is only as good as its enthusiastic audience!
Moderator: Simone Beaubien
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Fiction
Saturday 2:00 PM
The Book Rack
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Margot Livesey Reads from The House on Fortune Street
Winner of the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Margot Livesey’s latest novel tells the story of two college friends, an anonymous letter, and the return of a distant father. Livesey creates complex characters in this richly satisfying novel.
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Children
Saturday 2:00 PM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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The Inner Artist: Young Children and the Creative Process
Come hear celebrated author Pat Lowrey Collins, creator of I Am An Artist and I Am a Dancer, as she inspires children ages 4 - 8 to participate in the creative process while drawing out their inner artist. Collins will read from both books, offering exercises enabling children to closely examine the world around them and participate in its natural rhythms. They will make up Qigongs (a Chinese form of expressive movement) and find other creative ways to connect with and harness their youthful energy.
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Young Adult
Saturday 2:30 PM
Program Room
Newburyport Public Library
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The Art of the Encore: Writing a Series
Possibly the only thing more difficult than writing a successful book for young adults is producing an entire series capable of attracting loyal fans. What are the critical elements involved in turning out books that consistently enthrall readers, and how does an author manage to capture and hold their attention repeatedly? Where does inspiration come from and how do the creators of these novels keep it from running dry? Please join Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (The Kiesha'ra Series) and Tony Abbott (The Secrets of Droon), two critically acclaimed authors of popular fantasy series, as they explore the challenges and rewards of keeping the story going.
Moderator: Lucia Greene
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Poetry
Saturday 2:30 PM
Central Congregational Church Social Hall
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Legendary Misbehavior: Ernest Hilbert reads from his new book, Sixty Sonnets
"Like the minutes of the hour, these Sixty Sonnets both combine to make a whole and shine as individual moments." —A.E. Stallings
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Nonfiction
Saturday 2:30 PM
Old South Church
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Below the Radar: Immigrants in America
Join author Peter Orner and social activist Drew Hendrickson in a discussion of Peter's latest book, Underground America. Peter compiled and edited the stories of various men and women who came to the United States and confronted life-changing challenges that they never expected. This book is a collection of first-hand accounts that shares the human experiences that elude the headlines and are rarely considered in political discourse about immigration. The discussion will center on the power of the human story and the often harsh reality of immigration in the US.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 2:30 PM
City Hall Council Chambers
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Julia Fox Garrison Reads from Don’t Leave Me This Way or When I Get Back On My Feet You’ll Be Sorry
On July 17, 1997, Julia Fox Garrison woke up in the hospital after suffering a massive hemorrhagic stroke. After a fight for her life she came to realize that her purpose on Earth is to spread a message of hope. Julia’s inspirational story of recovery is proof that laughter is the best medicine.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 2:30 PM
First Religious
Society Unitarian
Universalist Church
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Tony Horwitz: A Voyage Long and Strange
Tony Horwitz will speak about A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists and other Adventurers in Early America. The book follows the first Europeans to visit the New World, in search of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz retraces their steps with his own epic trek, from sub-arctic Canada to the steamy Caribbean, from the Pueblo Country to the Great Plains, from the swamps of Florida to the rocky shore of New England. Horwitz’s book is a rich blend of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings a forgotten chapter of America’s history vividly to life.
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Fiction
Saturday 2:30 PM
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
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Eve LaPlante Reads from Salem Witch Judge:
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Eve LaPlante will be talking about her latest ancestor biography, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall. LaPlante’s “touching biography... seems hauntingly familiar,” The New York Times Book Review wrote. “Salem Witch Judge upends popular stereotypes about Puritans... [and] reminds us how quickly the conventional wisdom can shift, forcing even the powerful to move." Publishers Weekly added, “LaPlante’s splendid biography brings a personal touch to Sewall's story... As she did in American Jezebel, the marvelous biography of her 12th-generation ancestor Anne Hutchinson, LaPlante richly narrates his life... drawing on Sewall’s diaries and stories told by her Aunt Charlotte.” Her subject, who lived in Newbury, Massachusetts, in the 1660s, believed that Jesus Christ would return at his Second Coming to Plum Island.
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Children
Saturday 3:00 PM
Children’s Room
Newburyport
Public Library
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Think Green: Paperbag Bookmaking
What do you need to transform everyday materials into a book? Imagination, the creative urge, an ordinary paper bag and an old cereal box, that's what. For more than twenty years Newburyport bookmaker Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord has been inspiring children--in school and at home--to create original books from recycled materials. During her workshop for families with children 4 and older (all materials provided) everyone will make and illustrate three original books of their own design.
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Fiction
Saturday 3:00 PM
The Firehouse Center
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Fiction to Film
Novelists and close friends Elinor Lipman (Then She Found Me, 2007) and Anita Shreve (The Weight of Water, 2000, Resistance, 2003, and The Pilot's Wife, 2002) will discuss the winding road from novel to screen and who they met along the way. Was it fun and was it worth it—the good, the bad and the inside scoop from these two entertaining authors.
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Nonfiction
Saturday 3:00 PM
The Book Rack
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Unknown Soldiers – Joseph Garland Reads
With Unknown Soldiers, internationally acclaimed author Joseph E. Garland presents World War II through the eyes of a close-knit infantry platoon—men who braved Nazi fire to stake out the front lines of the Allied campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France, and finally Germany. While writing from his own wartime journals, Garland tracked down 20 of his buddies to tell their stories. Come hear the author read from this unconventional collective memoir.
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Fiction
Saturday 3:30 PM
Jabberwocky
Bookshop,
The Tannery
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David Crouse Reads from The Man Back There: Stories
Join David Crouse as he reads from his latest collection of stories and characters. Crouse is a master storyteller, creating characters such as the technical support operator for a company on the verge of collapse or the dog-catcher who crashes his ex-wife’s Thanksgiving dinner. It’s easy to see why The Man Back There was the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
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Poetry
Saturday 4:30 PM
The Firehouse Center
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Polyphony
Poems can be tender or raucous, and the best take us into the poet's experience while delivering a sort of music. We often encounter poems on the page, or try to hear them in our minds. Sometimes, we hear a poem at a reading and learn how the poet intended the music to sound. Should every line break get a pause? Should the beats or rhymes be given special notice? Should the wrap-around lines be read without a pause?
In "Polyphony," a group of poets have chosen poems, wrestled the issues to the ground and assigned phrases, thoughts and words to separate readers. They will read in different voices to surprise and delight your ear. They have picked poems from the local Powow River Poets as well as renowned American poets Richard Wilbur, Sara Teasdale and e.e. cummings.
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Saturday 6:30 PM
The Firehouse Center
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Closing Ceremony Honoring David McPhail
We close the festival with a celebration of Newburyport's own David McPhail and his work as a children's book illustrator and author. The evening includes film, music, a children's dance performance, tributes, and book reading. A beloved author, McPhail has written and illustrated nearly 200 exceptional books to the thrill and delight of children and adults everywhere. David McPhail will speak to the Festival theme, "Reading for a Lifetime" with memories of his youth at the Newburyport Library.
Join us as we journey with David McPhail through his enormously successful and satisfying life of tapping into and feeding children's imaginations and, by all means, bring the children!
Presenters: David McPhail, Fontaine Dubus, Joppa Jr. Jazz Dance Company, Andrea Mercier, Jay Schadler, Maureen Daly, Madeline Warner, and Claire Warner
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