Helen Marie Casey

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Upcoming Readings

Helen Marie Casey will join other Concord Poetry Center poets to read at Fruitlands Museum in the Picture Gallery at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 10th.

She will also join Finishing Line Press poets for a reading as part of the Festival of Concord Authors on November 2, 2008, at 3 p.m., at the Concord Poetry Center. Helen will read from her collection of poems about Joan of Arc, "Fragrance Upon His Lips."

On Sunday, November 9th, at the Grange Hall in Sudbury, at 3 p.m., she will provide a presentation, "Footsteps in the Sands of Time: Florence Hosmer's Story."

Events

Book signing took place at the Boston Authors Club Awards reception in the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library.

"Inconsiderate Madness" was named a finalist for the 2008 Julia Ward Howe Award by the Boston Authors Club. The Boston Authors Club, founded in 1900 by Julia Ward Howe and friends, is the country's oldest continuously meeting writers' club. Awards were presented at a reception May 15, 2008, in the Boston Public Library.



Selected Works

History
Portland’s Compromise: The Colored School 1867-1872
The author visits post-Civil War racial history in the school system in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry
Inconsiderate Madness
Casey’s poems are compelling. Throughout, Casey’s lyrical voice resonates.
--Vivian Shipley
Fragrance Upon His Lips
Deft. Real, honest, terse, sinewy, searing, passionate poems of emotional and sensual immediacy
--Brian Doyle



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