News bulletin for 4/16/07. (Regular entries resume next Monday; please check back.)

Tuesday, April 24 & Wednesday, April 25
Senior Readings
6:30 p.m.
Powers 29
Chester College of New England

Featuring:
WT Abernathy
Sean Cashman
Mark Cugini
Brandon Gretter
Troy Edward Robbins
Chris Sumner
Randy Tompkins




PAT PARNELL POETRY JUDGE ANNOUNCED:

Poet Patricia Smith will judge the 2007 Pat Parnell Poetry Contest for
Compass Rose. Her most recent collection of poetry, Teahouse of the
Almighty, was a 2005 National Poetry Series winner, selected by Edward
Sanders (Coffee House Press). Smith is the author of three previous
collections of poetry, the children's book Janna and the Kings, and
co-author of Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery. A
record-setting, four-time national poetry slam champion, Smith has been
feature in the film Slamnation, and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam.

Click here for contest guidelines.