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Come Celebrate National Poetry Month


Rochester poet M.J. Iuppa will be reading from her new work, Within Reach, on Wednesday April 13 in the MCC Theatre at noon.  The event is free and open to all.

Since 1986, M. J. Iuppa has been successfully teaching poetry and creative writing workshops throughout New York State. Presently, she is the Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College, and also teaches creative writing and poetry workshops at Writers & Books, Young Audiences, Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., V.I.T.A.L. program, Rochester City School District, Genesee Valley BOCES, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES and BOCES 2.  From January 1990 to May 2006, she was curator of the Genesee Reading Series at Writers & Books.  Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Award  and her play This Heat was selected as one of the seven plays read in the American Voices Regional Playwrights’ Festival sponsored by GeVa Theatre and Writers & Books.

Copies of her new book will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.

Cathryn Smith
English/Philosophy
04/11/2011