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Mystic Arts Cafe

MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award-Winning Poet

Edward Hirsch To Read at The Arts Café Mystic

WHAT: On Friday evening, April 25, The Arts Café Mystic continues its 20th

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presenting inspiring words and music, with a program headlined by Edward Hirsch,

who is widely regarded as one of the great contemporary American poets. About

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Hirsch’s recently published The Living Fire: New & Selected Poems, The New York

Times comments “the everyday and the otherworldly temper each other in these excellent

poems, and American poetry gains new strength as a result.” The San Francisco

Chronicle observes that “in a year of amazing ‘Selected Poems,’ this may be the finest.”

Hirsch’s seven previous books of poems won many prizes including the MacArthur

“Genius’ Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Delmore Schwarz

Award. His volume of inspirational prose essays, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love

with Poetry, was a national bestseller.

The evening’s sizzling jazz music will be served up by the Jim Hall Quartet with Steve

Marien on sax. Jacquelin Gorman will serve as the program’s Opening Voice, reading

from her collection of stories The Viewing Room, which won last year’s Flannery

O’Connor Prize.

WHERE: The Mystic Arts Center at 9 Water Street in downtown Mystic.

WHEN: Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for gallery strolling.

TICKETS: $10; students under 21 admitted free. Seating is limited.

INFORMATION: Call Christie Max Williams at 860-912-2444 or e-mail at

info@thearetscafemystic.org.

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