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The next Poetry At The Beach reading will take place at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 8, at the Ocean View Church of God at the corner of Route 26 and West Avenue, across from Taylor Bank. This program is sponsored by the Rehoboth Art League, South Coastal Library, Rehoboth Beach Public Library, Lewes Public Library and funded in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts.
Billie Travalini teaches poetry and writing at Lincoln University, Wilmington College, in the Boys & Girls Club Pegasus ArtWorks Program and in youth detention homes throughout Delaware.
Her book, “Teaching Troubled Youth: A Practical Pedagogical Approach,” was published just last month and “The Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Literature,” a book she coedited with Fleda Brown, should be coming out from the University of Delaware Press any day now.
Her memoir “Bloodsisters” won the 2005 Lewis and Clark Discovery Prize and the Delaware Press Association Award for nonfiction.
Her poetry and prose have been published widely. She is the fiction editor for the Journal of Caribbean Literature and director of the Delaware Literary Connection and the New Castle Writer’s Conference.
Martin Galvin, one of Maryland and Delaware’s most prolific poets, has published three chapbooks, “Making Beds” (1989), “Appetites” (2000) and “Circling Out” (2007). His full-length book of poetry, “Wild Card,” won the Columbia Prize in 1989 and was published by Word Works Press. His poems have been published in hundreds of journals including Poetry, The New Republic, Commonweal, Atlantic Monthly, Potomac Review, Poetry East and the Best American Poetry of 1997. He is a co-editor of the Delaware Poetry Review.
Gary Hanna is the director of the Poetry At The Beach series. He won the Brodie Herndon Memorial Prize in 2002 and the Walter W. Winchell Poetry Contest in 2005.
He was awarded the Emerging Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2003 and a Creative Artist Residency Fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2007. His poems have appeared in more than 60 journals and anthologies since moving to Delaware. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Broadkill Review.
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