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Bartram's Garden by Eleanor Stanford: Reading and Book Release Celebration
A reading by the author of this newly-released volume of poetry, inspired by Bartam's Garden itself. Followed by a reception with light refreshments and charming live music by Slowey and The Boats.
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"In this formally accomplished collection [Bartram's Garden],...these poems sing gorgeously 'with their glowing throats / and feathered tongues.'" -Moira Egan.
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Eleanor Stanford is the author of the new book of poetry, Bartram's Garden (Carnegie Mellon University Press), a memoir, História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) and of the poetry collection, The Book of Sleep (Carnegie).
Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Brain, Child Magazine, and others.
She is a 2014-2015 Fulbright Fellow to Brazil where she is researching and writing about traditional midwifery in rural Bahia.
She is the recipient of a Hadassah Brandeis grant and was awarded a residency at The Betsy-South Beach in Miami.
She was a Henry Hoyns fellow at the University of Virginia, where she earned her M.F.A. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and three sons.
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What appears untidy and lacking
in design is in fact intentional:
quiet milkweed beside the conflagration
of red fireweed; the brackish
Schyulkill feeding stately oaks. John knew the author
lays his borders, then steps back.
(excerpted from "Bartram's Garden")
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Slowey and The Boats plays Hawaiian-inspired instrumentals from a wide range of genres. Prominently featuring the hauntingly melodious wails of steel guitarist Isaac Stanford, the music is fun, accessible and sophisticated.
Listen at http://www.sloweyandtheboats.com/music/
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Tickets are free, but please preregister here in order to reserve a space! Seating is first-come, first-served.
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LocationBartram's Garden (View)
54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19143
United States
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