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Poetry Reading: Sam Cornish Award with Gloria Mindock
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The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public.
In the case of inclement weather, poetry readings will be moved indoors. Concerts will be canceled or rescheduled.
The series is made possible with support from the Friends of Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters, New England Poetry Club, and the Berklee College of Music.
Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press and an award-winning author of six poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have been published and translated into eleven languages. Her recent book, Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Glass Lyre Press, 2023), won the International Impact Award, the Speak-up Talk Radio International Firebird Award and the Independent Press Award. Gloria’s book ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021) won several book awards and was translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and published by Alma Press in Belgrade in 2022. At the Winter’s Gate, La Portile Raiului, was translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma and published by Ars Longo Press in Romania. Gloria has numerous publications including Ibbetson, Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), KGB Lit, to name just a few. Gloria was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018.