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Events Helen was one of the Poets of Finishing Line Press to read at the Concord Festival of Authors.  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. |
2009 Readings On Wed. evening, Feb. 25th, Helen was part of the Waking Dream Press Reading, "Lust, Longing, and Letting Go" at 60 Nobscot Rd., in Sudbury, MA. On March 7th, Helen read from INCONSIDERATE MADNESS as part of the panel, "Stranger than Fiction: Contemporary Creative Writers and Historical Inspiration," part of the 6th Biennial conference of the Society of Early Americanists in Hamilton, Bermuda. On March 11th, Helen was one of three poets reading at Porter Square Books, a National Writers union event celebrating International Women's Day. 2008 Autumn Readings Helen Marie Casey joined other Concord Poetry Center poets to read at the Old Manse during the Old Manse Fall Festival, Saturday, October 11, 2008, from 2-3:30p.m. On Monday, October 20, at 7:00 pm, Helen read in the New York Writers Coalition Writing Aloud reading series at 138 South Oxford Place, Brooklyn. She also joined 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 read from her collection of poems about Joan of Arc, "Fragrance Upon His Lips." On Monday evening, November 3, 2008, Helen read in Cambridge, MA. at the monthly meeting of the New England Poetry Club. She read from her Second Place entry in the 2008 Firman Houghton Award Prize and from INCONSIDERATE MADNESS, an Honorable Mention for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. 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." |
