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X.J. Kennedy & The Light Brigade

Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (ET)

Lowell, MA

X.J. Kennedy & The Light Brigade

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Enjoy humorous and provocative poetry by Concord Poetry Center members X.J. Kennedy, Robert J. Clawson, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Joan Kimball and Amy Woods. Kennedy’s latest books are In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems and Peeping Tom’s Cabin: Comic Verse. This year he was awarded the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, for lifetime achievement. “And I ain’t even dead yet,” he comments. Poems by other Light Brigadiers have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Measure, Beloit Poetry Journal, Raintown Review, POESIS, Blue Unicorn, Bumbershoot, Southern Review, Light Quarterly and many other print and electronic publications.