Rozzie Reads Poetry

Rozzie Reads Poetry is a free literary reading series sponsored by the Friends of the Roslindale Library, usually on the third Thursday of the month, in October, December,January, March, and May. The events take place in the community room at Roslindale House at 7:00 PM (for map and directions, see below). The operating committee members are Steve Babcock, Dorothy Derifield, Holly Guran, Mary McCusker, and Vivienne Shalom.    

There are two readers, followed by an open mike. Free refreshments. Open to all. Please join us. For more information, contact  hguran@aol.com

Biographies of Our Next Readers 

                   October 25, 2018,   Thursday, at 7:30 PM

 Paula Bonnell

Paula Bonnell’s poems have appeared in APR, Rattle, Spillway, and The Women’s Review of Books, among others. Her new chapbook, Tales Retold follows three collections: Airs & Voices, selected by Mark Jarman as a Ciardi Prize winner; Before the Alphabet, a free-verse story of a child’s kindergarten year; and Message, a hard-cover debut collection. Her fiction has received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project award and been published in The Kansas City Star Sunday Magazine and the Chapel Hill Village Advocate. She is a PEN New England Discovery writer.

 Charlot Lucian

Charlot Lucien is a Haitian poet, storyteller, and visual artist, author of 5 storytelling CDs in Haitian Creole and French and a poetry collection: «La tentation de l’autre rive» (The Temptation of the Other Side, Trilingual Press). His work has appeared in various publications including Compost Magazine, Haiti 1804, Tanbou Magazine and “Mur de la poésie” and “Poètes à la une” in France. He offers readings, storytelling sessions and conferences on Haitian culture internationally, and is the co-founder and director of the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts (HAAM). http://charlotlucien.wixsite.