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The funniest serious poet around
Billy Collins Featherstone Center for the Arts and Pathways Arts will present Billy Collins, reading his poems, at 6 pm on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Featherstone’s Francine Kelly Gallery. Collins will also be teaching a one-day poetry workshop on Friday, Sept. 25. This year marks the…
An Island respite
Val Leone, the protagonist in Maria Anne Lenihan’s new novel, “Morning Glory Girl,” has a bit of a problem. Actually, it’s a career-threatening one, so it weighs heavily on her life. After six years on the partner track at a New York corporate law firm, Val is under a lot of…
What it means to have your greatness recognized: ‘Late Fame’
“Late Fame,” by Kent Jones, playing at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, Sept. 25, is a quiet story adapted from an Arthur Schnitzler novella. It follows the aging Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), a former poet working a humdrum Post Office job in New York City, who is “rediscovered”…