•Series XVII•

FALL |  2014  | 

THE WHEN

Thursday, October 30

7 pm*

THE WHAT

Together with community poets/ writers/ artists & hosted by Conversations in the Liberal Arts & the Creative Writing program at New England College, we invite you to an evening with...

THE WRITERS

Joseph Hurka, short fiction

Maggie Martin, poetry

FEATURING 
Photography exhibition by Marky Kauffmann

(THE LAST ALLITERATIVE)
WE'VE MOVED

1 Union Street, Center for Liberal Arts & Sciences 
Henniker, NH

~Parking~

@ 98 Bridge Street (Rt. 114), Simon Center, New England College. Exit at the end of the Simon Center driveway. Cross intersection at Bridge Street/#114, onto Union Street. Proceed up Union St., to second house on the left. Say the secret password, "jackalope."

$5 suggested for all the candy corn, snacks, wine & good conversation you can muster.

*Stay for ConVerse, a casual Q&A and talk to follow*

Joseph Hurka is the author of the memoir, Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father, winner of the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, and of Before (2007), a novel from St. Martin's Press. A new short story collection, Graceful Lies, is due in early 2015. He was educated at Bradford College, where he studied with the short story master, Andre Dubus, and at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Hurka's short stories have been published in The Dos Passos Review, Ploughshares, Agni, Entelechy International, Alaska Quarterly Review and numerous other literary journals. His travel writing will be featured in the upcoming National Geographic publication, Journeys Home (February, 2015). Hurka lives in southern New Hampshire, and teaches at Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts.

 

Maggie Martin was born in Northeast Pennsylvania in the heart of the Anthracite Coal region. She made her home in the Pocono Mountains, where for over twenty-five years, she helped people write their poems and tell their stories. As Poet-in-Residence at the VA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Martin specialized in healing through the practice of poetry. Her work has been published in literary journals, often anthologized, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She currently lives on the Contoocook River in the foothills of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, close to her family.

Marky Kauffmann is a graduate of Boston University and the New England School of Photography.  She has been working as a fine-art photographer and educator for more than thirty years.  She is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist grants.  She was chosen as one of America’s Top Ten New Photographers by Maine Photographic Workshop in 1987, and received a Photographic Resource Center Biennial Participant Award in 1993. Most recently, she won First Place in Soho Photo Gallery’s National Alternative Processes Competition, was a finalist in the 3rd Julia Margaret Cameron Worldwide Gala Awards, and garnered an Honorable Mention Award in the 38th Professional Women Photographers International Open.

Kauffmann is a passionate educator who has taught photography at numerous secondary schools, including Buckingham Brown and Nichols School, Shady Hill School, Dana Hall School, Milton Academy and Weston High School.  She also spent twenty years teaching photography to adults as part of the New England School of Photography’s Evening Workshop Program.  Currently she teaches at Milton Academy’s Saturday Course.