Sunday, April 22, 2018 Literary Cafe at CFI featuring Nita Penfold and Anne E. Pluto Categories: Other Local Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

Where:
The Center for Inquiry
1310 Sweet Home Rd.
Amherst, NY 14228
Date: May 2, 2018
Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m.

Nita Penfold and Anne E. Pluto with musical guest Iona Pentledon

Nita Penfold, poet, editor, teacher, and artist, is the author of Landing in Oz (2012) and They Stand Up in Broken Shells, winner of the 2006 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Award. She has two chapbooks of poetry from Pudding House Publications, Mile-High Blue-Sky Pie (2002) and The Woman With the Wild-Grown Hair (1998). She edited the 2004 anthology Hunger Enough: Living Spiritually in a Consumer Society for Pudding House. She has also published fiction, notably in Wind Chill: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books, 2005). She is a former co-editor of Earth’s Daughters magazine. Her poem, Stigmata, won the Judith Siegel Pearson Award from Wayne State University in 2005. Over 500 of her poems have been published over the last 3 decades, in many journals, including Earth’s Daughters Magazine. She earned a Master of Arts in Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and a Doctorate in Ministry from Wisdom University (USC), CA. Nita is also a retired award-winning educator and adjunct faculty for spirituality and arts at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, MA. Nita spent her formative years growing up in rural Wales, NY.

Anne Elizabeth Pluto, poet, teacher, thespian/director, and editor, is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University, in Cambridge, MA, where she is the artistic director of the Oxford Street Players. She is director and co-editor of Nixes Mate Review. Her chapbook, The Frog Princess, was published by White Pine Press. Her ebook, Lubbock Electric, was published by Argotist ebooks in 2012. Lantern Festival, an ebook of her poems, was published by Argotist Press in 2014. Her poems have been published extensively, both in print and online, including in The Lyre, Womb Poetry, There: Rewriting the Landscape, Blackbox Gallery, Facets, Quadrangle, and 88: a Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Unlikely Stories, Pirenes Fountain, MadHatter’s Review, Shadows of the Future (Otherstream Anthology), nycBigCityLit, Letras Caseras, Earth’s Daughters, and Helix. She received her doctorate in English from UB. Pluto co-programmed the Fiction Diction series with R.D. Pohl for two years when she lived in Buffalo.

Iona Pentledon is a gospel singer who is now retired from a long career as a daycare teacher at Trinity Church.

Free and open to public. Light refreshments. Ample lighted parking.