You are cordially invited…
PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series
PEN New England
invites you to a reading with
JEFFREY HARRISON
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
during the Hotel Marlowe’s Wine Hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Harrison is the author of four full-length books of poetry — The Singing Underneath (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series; Signs of Arrival (1996); Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001); and Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, 2006) — as well as The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems, (Waywiser Press, U.K., 2006). His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and Poets of the New Century. Harrison has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. He taught at George Washington University, College of the Holy Cross, and Phillips Academy, and currently is a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.
About PEN New England
PEN New England is an organization of writers and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website www.pen-ne.org.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.