Day of Poetry

Saturday, April 8, 2:00PM: Poetry Prescription and Reading with CI Marshall.

Does your poem need a visit to a poem doctor? C.I. Marshall, winner of the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award, is taking appointments now. Bring your "problem" poems, and Marshall will listen to you read, discuss your poems, then prescribe possible ways to improve them. You will be given a prescription based on your poems' ailments to take home with you. Followed by a reading of Marshall’s The Locksmith Journeys Into the Afterlife.

C. I. Marshall received an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, from CA State University and was editor for ARTLIFE Magazine. Marshall’s poems have appeared in Verdad, Spillway, Packinghouse Review, Beyond the Lyric Moment: Poetry Inspired by Workshops with David St. John, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Broad River Review, Stone Quarterly Journal and Poems In The Waiting Room, UK. Marshall’s poem, “Myself As A Playboy Bunny” won the 2018 Verve International Poetry Festival Contest, and her poem “What I Love About Love’s” received Honorable Mention in the 2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize.

This in person event will take place at the Chilmark Library and is hosted in collaboration with the Chilmark and VH libraries.

Please register for this exciting opportunity by emailing tthorpe@clamsnet.org.