April 19, 2018

( Left to Right) Professor Doug Holder, Stephanie Cassatlym Professor Mark Herlihy)

Stephanie Cassatly, author of " Notice of Release: A Daughter's Journey to Forgive Her Mother's Killer" April 19, 2018--5PM

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

STEPHANIE CASSATLY earned her undergraduate degree in Business from Emory University and her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies, and many of those works have won awards and notable mentions. She speaks on the topic of forgiveness, is a contributor to The Forgiveness Project, and teaches writing at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She resides in Florida with her husband. They have two grown daughters.

Books: Notice of Release: A Daughter's Journey to Forgive Her Mother's Killer

March 22 5PM/-- Michael Anthony: Civilanized: A Young Veteran's Memoir

After twelve months of military service in Iraq, Michael Anthony stepped off a plane, seemingly happy to be home--or at least back on US soil. He was twenty-one years old, a bit of a nerd, and carrying a pack of cigarettes that he thought would be his last. Two weeks later, Michael was stoned on Vicodin, drinking way too much, and picking a fight with a very large Hell's Angel. At his wit's end, he came to an agreement with himself: If things didn't improve in three months, he was going to kill himself. Civilianized is a memoir chronicling Michael's search for meaning in a suddenly destabilized world.

Michael Anthony is a Massachusetts based writer and veteran of the U.S. Army. After his service in the Iraq War, he earned a BA in English Literature from Bridgewater State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He currently spends his free time with his wife and daughter, and volunteering for veteran charities.

Media Scholar/ Writer Michael C. Keith/ Nov 16, 2017/ 12:30PM/ Endicott College/ 12:30PM

Michael C. Keith, Ph.D. is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen groundbreaking books on electronic media, among them Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Sounds of Change, The Broadcast Century, Radio Cultures, Signals in the Air, the classic textbook The Radio Station (later Keith’s Radio Station), and Waves of Rancor––a book cited by President Clinton for its study of the radical right’s use of audio media. The recipient of numerous awards in the academic field, including the Broadcast Education Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Radio Television Society’s Stanton Fellow Award, and the University of Rhode Island’s Achievement Award in the Humanities, he is also the author of dozens of articles and short stories and has served in a variety of editorial positions. Prior to joining Boston College (where he was named Emeritus upon retiring), Michael served as Chair of Education at the Museum of Broadcast Communications and on the faculties of The George Washington University, Marquette University, and Dean College. He is co-founder of the Broadcast Education Association’s Radio Division and its first chair. Beyond that, he is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place (Algonquin Books)––a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 14 story collections––Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, and Stories in the Key of Me. He has been nominated a half dozen times for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the “Fiction Visionary” category. www.michaelckeith.com

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Poet Malcolm Miller Brought to Life at Endicott Co...

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Poet Malcolm Miller Brought to Life at Endicott Co...:   Malcolm Miller REVIEW BY    Caroline Moll Too often, we see stories of poets work going undiscovered or underappreciated until th...

From the Oct 5,2017 Reading

Left to Right  -- Rod Kessler, Doug Holder, and Kevin Carey

Endicott College: Kevin Carey and Rod Kessler to p...

                                                UNBURYING MALCOLM MILLER

Remembering  an often homeless, outsider poet in Salem, Ma.

       
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Endicott College: Kevin Carey and Rod Kessler to p...: Malcolm Miller The event will be October 5, 2017 at Endicott College as part of the Endicott College/Ibbetson Street Press Visiting...  ( Click on hypertext for the full article)

Visiting Author Kevin Gallagher March 2017

Kevin Gallagher ( author of Loom) with Professor Doug Holder( Director of the series)

To read Endicott College undergraduate Mikayla Brasefield's interview with Gallagher go to: 


Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

Poet Kevin Gallagher author of "Loom" March 2, 2017

 

 

 

 

LOOM is concerned with the history of our divided country, a violent division preceding civil war and by now embedded in our cultural landscape. The non-sentimental poems are cool, clear and literal. They are narrated by white Americans who position themselves in relation to “slave power” and cotton as “lords of the loom” and “lords of the lash”. Boston is central to the story, and the cities of Lawrence and Lowell. It’s a valuable collection, as it puts the focus back on the white male where the distortion of vision begins and is occasionally resolved.

—Fanny Howe, winner of the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize and National Book Award Finalist

  Kevin who has roots in Somerville, Mass., was a founding editor of COMPOST magazine, and currently publishes spoKe magazine. He is a professor of Global Development at Boston University.

Visiting Author Series--Endicott College-Ibbetson Street Press: January Gill O’Neil April 6, 2017

Visiting Author Series--Endicott College-Ibbetson Street Press: January Gill O’Neil April 6, 2017: January Gill O’Neil January Gill O’Neil was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and received a BA from Old Dominion University and an MFA from...

January Gill O’Neil April 6, 2017

January Gill O’Neil

January Gill O’Neil was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and received a BA from Old Dominion University and an MFA from New York University. She is the author of Misery Islands (CavanKerry Press, 2014), winner of a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, and Underlife (CavanKerry Press, 2009). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. The executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, O’Neil also serves on the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ board of directors and teaches at Salem State University. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Nov. 3, 2016 Nanette Perotte 12 Noon

Nanette  Perotte

Born to an Ecuadorian mother and French father, Perrotte was raised in Amsterdam Holland and Orlando Florida before attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music where she received her BA in Jazz Composition and Arranging with a principal instrument of Voice. This course of study was the fulfillment of a childhood spent singing and performing that continues on as a professional vocalist.

Perrotte’s Masters Degree in Education from Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts focused her work on Arts as a tool to learn about and experience cultural diversity. With her college teaching career, private voice students, college choir and acting/improv troupe, Perrotte has now evolved a new lecture/presentation form. This is a new series that combines social history, musicology and storytelling. Ella Fitzgerald- Queen of Swing and Duke Ellington and the Harlem Renaissance.

Recently Perrotte has been traveling with her internationally recognized father who is a chef and Continental Director of the Americas WACS. These travels to South America, South Korea and France have been part of witnessing Louis Perrotte’s work using fine cuisine as cultural diplomacy- although here it is an American chef encouraging chefs in other cultures to pursue their own cuisine first.

Nanette Perrotte’s travels have led to a series of blogs reflecting on cultural differences around music, cuisine and food preparation. Her blog posts (May, October 2012) on South Korea have quickly attracted a following of interested South Korean readers. In these travels Perrotte finds that people want to know the real America. With her musical background, Perrotte is able to convey that to them through the great American Songbook, the richness of our original music tradition that is loved and shared around the world.

Starting in 2010, Perrotte focused her musical theatre work by re-creating the story lines and music of traditional children’s literature to reflect current times and current generations of creative students. Some of her adaptations include: Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Perrotte has a 500 hour advanced Yoga certification, an AFAA Group Fitness Certification, TRX training certification and CPR certification.

Sept, 29, 2016 Novelist, Critic, and Journalist Clea Simon

Clea Simon

Clea Simon is the Boston Globe-bestselling author of three nonfiction books and 21 mysteries in four series, most recently When Bunnies Go Bad  (Poisoned Pen Press) and Into the Grey and The Ninth Life (both from Severn House). A former editor at The Boston Phoenix, Boston Globe, and various area magazines, Clea still contributes book reviews to the Globe. Her essays and short stories have also appeared in various anthologies and in outlets such as Salon, Dame, and American Prospect. For more info, please see www.CleaSimon.com

Pultizer-Winning Novelist Paul Harding with Endicott Student Nicole Cadro

Nicole Cadro interviewed Paul Harding. Harding proved to be a fascinating subject, according to Cadro. Cadro conducted the interview for her ENG101 seminar with Professor Doug Holder.

Aug 7, 2016 5PM Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Paul Harding

Paul Harding

Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family, Enon (Random House, 2013) and Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the PEN American Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. In an interview with Publishers Weekly about his work, Harding has said that he is “interested in the greater whole of which we are a part, but cannot perceive. That makes death an interesting threshold. It fascinates me in the context of our mortality.”

Harding was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA and has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Harvard University, and Grinnell College. Before becoming a writer, Harding played drums in the rock band Cold Water Flat, with which he toured North America and Europe several times and recorded two albums. Harding has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Feb. 25, 2016 Sebastian Lockwood

Sebastian Lockwood is a Storyteller who specializes in the epics:  The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Odyssey,  CAESAR: the man from Venus,  Beowulf, and… Monkey: A Journey to the West.  These are the great tales of heroic struggle and self-discovery.  Lockwood is now narrating a series of audio books available at Audible.com and Amazon.com.  Working as a traveling bard, teacher and audio book narrator, Lockwood lives with his wife, singer and producer, Nanette Perrotte, by Crotched Mountain, NH.

Christopher Busa/Publisher of Provincetown Arts Magazine, Nov. 2015

( Left to Right)  Professor Mark Herlihy, Porfessor Doug Holder, Christopher Busa,Walter Mannien)

George MacDonald Reading Sept 24, 2015

Left to Right ( Playwright George MacDonald and Professor Doug Holder)   Photo byTom Majkut

Christopher Busa--Founder of the Provincetown Arts Magazine-- Nov 19, 2015 12NOON

Christopher Busa

Christopher Busa, founder and editor of the Provincetown Arts Magazine, was born in New York City in 1946, the son of a painter who participated in the formative years of  Abstract Expressionism. Spending part of every year in Provincetown  since infancy, he slowly absorbed its mythology as a place where artists  and writers gather to work and live. After graduation from the University of Minnesota, he studied for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne, and then pursued a Ph.D. for ten years while teaching English at Rutgers University. His interviews and profiles of artists and writers have appeared in the Paris Review, Arts, Partisan Review, Garden Design, and other magazines. Two published pieces were reprinted in Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz, edited by Stanley Moss (Sheep Meadow Press). Another essay, “Being a Great Man Is a Thesis Invented by Others,” appeared in Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock (Thunder’s Mouth Press). He has curated exhibitions and written catalog introductions for many artists. He co-edited and introduced the Erotic Works of D.H. Lawrence (Crown, 1989), the subject of his dissertation. He is the author of The Provincetown Artists Cookbook, with Written Sketches of the Artists Creating a Contemporary Portrait of the Town as an Art Colony (Abingdon, 1988).Over the past 20 years he has taped several hundred interviews and created files on over 1000 artists and writers in preparation for a comprehensive title about the century-long history of the art colony.  His WOMR FM 92.1 radio program, “ArtTalk,” airs three times a month over the past five years, introducing new and established artists, performers, and writers discussing their current project and what moves them to do it.He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), based in Paris, and he is one of 16 members of the American New England Chapter, which selects two dozen “Best of” exhibitions annually in museums, commercial galleries, and university art galleries in painting, sculpture, and architecture. He is on the board of the Norman Mailer Society and on the editorial board of the Mailer Review,published by the Society and by the University of South Florida. He teaches one semester a year in the low-residency Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.

Sept 24, 2015 12PM Actor , Comedian, and Playwright George MacDonald

George MacDonald (On Top)

Actor, comedian and writer, George J. MacDonald is pleased to be artistically involved with Somerville once again. Stage plays that Mr. MacDonald has written include, Waiting For Whitey,  At The Funny Factory,  In A Better Place and Whistling Past The Graveyard. Screenplays include, Both Guns Blazing,  Still In The Picture and The Spider Sequence. Some of Mr. MacDonald’s film credits are,  Monument Ave. , Celtic Pride, Bluff and When Stand-up Stood Out.  His television credits include,  MAD-TV, The Michael Richards Show and A&E’s Comedy On The Road.  In 2005, George made his directorial debut with Why Work?, a sketch comedy show that appeared in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Mr. MacDonald is a member of SAF-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild of America.