Thursday, March 17, 2011

Ophelia’s Flowers: Mythic Women and Love

 Just Poets
and the Arts Minor Program
of St. John Fisher College 
  Present:

"Ophelia’s Flowers:
Mythic Women and Love"

Song Cycle for Piano and Voice,
followed by a Poetry Reading



Libretto and poems by E. Louise Beach; Jennifer Bellor, composer

Thursday, March 24, 7:00 pm
Wilson Formal Lounge
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Ave.
Rochester, NY 14618

Reception to follow the performance.
Please note this is not an open mic event.

There is no charge for this event.

Additional support by Poetic Effect.

E. Louise Beach is a lyric poet, critic, translator, and librettist.  Recently, she has been published in Barrow Street, Many Mountains Moving, Rosebud, The Bitter Oleander and TriQuarterly Online, among others.  Finishing Line Press has published her two chapbooks:  Blue Skies (2006) and Sine Nomine, (2011).  She was recently named a finalist in the May Swenson Poetry Book Award.

Seven of her poem cycles have been set to music by composers Jen Bellor, Gerald Coleman, Bryan Page, and Robert Pound.  In 2011, Ms. Beach received a grant to create a libretto for August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death.

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