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Poetry Reading Featuring Marvin Bell and Gayl Teller

The Walt Whitman Birthplace presents Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance, a series of performances and presentations by some of the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature and the arts on the national scene, paired with respected voices on the regional scene. The series will be hosted by Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer in Residence George Wallace.

Marvin Bell is publishing three new books this year: Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems, from Copper Canyon; Whiteout, a collaboration with the photographer Nathan Lyons (Lodima Press); and a children's picture book, A Primer about the Flag (Candlewick Press). He taught forty years for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches now for the brief-residency MFA program based in Oregon at Pacific University. A song cycle, "The Animals," commissioned by the composer David Gompper, premiered in 2009.  Mr. Bell was the 2004 Walt Whitman Birthplace Poet in Residence. Nassau County Poet Laureate (2009-11) 

Gayl Teller is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, Inside the Embrace (WordTech/Cherry Grove Collections, 2010); editor of Toward Forgiveness, an anthology of poems (Writers Ink Press, 2011); director of the NYSCA-funded Poetry Reading Series at Mid-Island YJCC, Plainview, for 17 years; on the Hofstra faculty since 1985. She is the winner of a NYSCA Decentralization Grant for the Arts, the Edgar Allan Poe Prize, a National League of American PEN Women Prize, Peninsula Library Poetry Prize, a Natational Federation of State Poetry Societies Prize, and the CT Writer Prize. Her website is www.gaylteller.com

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