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Black Boat Black Water Black Sand, the 5th book of poetry from Dave Morrison, will be launched at the
Owl & Turtle on February 26.
Hailed as " A hearty week in the garden of American Poetry," Morrison's work has been widely published
in literary magazines and anthologies, and regularly featured on the Have Poems Will Travel radio
program.
"Morrison's readings are much akin to peformances; his presentation are dramatic and lyrical and betray
his years as a rock-and-roll musician," noted Ken Gross of the Camden Library.
"there is an embrace of joy I found surprising. The past still breeds regrets in many of the poems, but
the present and future seem to be taking Morrison a bit by surprise by occasionally being fuels not by
anger, but by something he refers to more than once as holy. It's good stuff," according to Dagney
Ernest of the Courier Publications.
born near Boston, Dave is a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and many notes on scraps of pater.
After years of playing guitar in rock bars in Boston and New York, Dave moved to Camden. You can
visit Dave at www.dave--morrison.com.
Owl & Turtle on February 26.
Hailed as " A hearty week in the garden of American Poetry," Morrison's work has been widely published
in literary magazines and anthologies, and regularly featured on the Have Poems Will Travel radio
program.
"Morrison's readings are much akin to peformances; his presentation are dramatic and lyrical and betray
his years as a rock-and-roll musician," noted Ken Gross of the Camden Library.
"there is an embrace of joy I found surprising. The past still breeds regrets in many of the poems, but
the present and future seem to be taking Morrison a bit by surprise by occasionally being fuels not by
anger, but by something he refers to more than once as holy. It's good stuff," according to Dagney
Ernest of the Courier Publications.
born near Boston, Dave is a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and many notes on scraps of pater.
After years of playing guitar in rock bars in Boston and New York, Dave moved to Camden. You can
visit Dave at www.dave--morrison.com.
| February 26, 6:30 to 8pm Book Launching, Reading and Signing Dave Morrison Black Boat Black Water Black Sand |
| 32 Washington Street Camden, Maine 04843 Telephone: (207) 236-4769 |
| February 19 to 21 Camden Opera House 23rd Annual Camden Conference Afghanistan, Pakistan, India - Crossroads of Conflict |
The Owl & Turtle will once again be the on-site bookstore for the Camden Conference. This year's
conference will focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – an area termed the most challenging in the
world by many 2009 conference speakers. No assessment or understanding of the situation in
Afghanistan can be separated from attention to critical factors and developments in neighboring Pakistan
which in turn leads to a focus upon the complex and volatile relations between Pakistan and India. The
February 2010 conference will offer both specific and overview presentations devoted to the broad array
of issues raised within this turbulent region as well as the role of U.S. Policies and programs in this
“crossroads of conflict.”
For more details and a complete book list, please visit www.camdenconference.org.
conference will focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – an area termed the most challenging in the
world by many 2009 conference speakers. No assessment or understanding of the situation in
Afghanistan can be separated from attention to critical factors and developments in neighboring Pakistan
which in turn leads to a focus upon the complex and volatile relations between Pakistan and India. The
February 2010 conference will offer both specific and overview presentations devoted to the broad array
of issues raised within this turbulent region as well as the role of U.S. Policies and programs in this
“crossroads of conflict.”
For more details and a complete book list, please visit www.camdenconference.org.
New York Times Bestselling author, Lisa See, will highlight this year's Maine Literary Festival at the
Camden Opera House. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the bookstore.
Lisa See, author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, has
always been intrigued by stories that have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up, whether in the
past or happening right now in the world today. Ms. See's new novel, Shanghai Girls, once again delves
into forgotten history. This time she's stayed much closer to home: Los Angeles Chinatown.
Shanghai Girls is about two sisters, Pearl and May, who leave Shanghai in 1937 and go to Los Angeles
in arranged marriages. It is a story of immigration, identity, war, and love, but at its heart, Shanghai
Girls is a story of sisters. Pearl and May are inseparable best friends, who share hopes, dreams, and a
deep connection. But like sisters everywhere, they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Publishers
Weekly calls Shanghai Girls "excellent... an accomplished and absorbing novel," while Booklist has
written that it's a "buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."
Ms See is probably best known for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, for which she traveled to a
remote area of China—where she was told she was only the second foreigner ever to visit—to research
the secret writing invented, used, and kept a secret by women for over a thousand years. Amy Tan
called the novel "achingly beautiful, a marvel of imagination." Others agreed, and foreign-language rights
for Snow Flower were sold to 38 countries. The novel also became a New York Times bestseller. MGM
Studios acquired the film rights.
Camden Opera House. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the bookstore.
Lisa See, author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, has
always been intrigued by stories that have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up, whether in the
past or happening right now in the world today. Ms. See's new novel, Shanghai Girls, once again delves
into forgotten history. This time she's stayed much closer to home: Los Angeles Chinatown.
Shanghai Girls is about two sisters, Pearl and May, who leave Shanghai in 1937 and go to Los Angeles
in arranged marriages. It is a story of immigration, identity, war, and love, but at its heart, Shanghai
Girls is a story of sisters. Pearl and May are inseparable best friends, who share hopes, dreams, and a
deep connection. But like sisters everywhere, they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Publishers
Weekly calls Shanghai Girls "excellent... an accomplished and absorbing novel," while Booklist has
written that it's a "buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."
Ms See is probably best known for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, for which she traveled to a
remote area of China—where she was told she was only the second foreigner ever to visit—to research
the secret writing invented, used, and kept a secret by women for over a thousand years. Amy Tan
called the novel "achingly beautiful, a marvel of imagination." Others agreed, and foreign-language rights
for Snow Flower were sold to 38 countries. The novel also became a New York Times bestseller. MGM
Studios acquired the film rights.
| April 13, 7pm Maine Literary Festival Lisa See Shanghai Girls |
"The aim of the artist," William Faulkner wrote, "is to arrest motion, which is life. A hundred years later,
a stranger looks at it, and it moves again." Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski keeps
that thought in mind as she researches and executes her beautiful canvases on nautical subjects. Her
paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing and
quarrying and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy. Historic photographs and
informative text about how Maine people made their living 70 to 150 years ago round out this rich and
varied portrayal of a past way of life.
Originally from Long Island, Krupinski moved first to Old Lyme, Connecticut, and then to South
Thomaston, Maine. She worked for many years as an illustrator and graphic designer, before eventually
developing her unique dual career as a maritime artist and illustrator of children's books (27 at last
count). She is also an avid gardener, and wrote the gardening text, A Maine Artist's Garden Journal.
Krupinski is fellow and board member of the American Society of Marine Artists, and a six-time winner
at the International Marine Artists Exhibition at Mystic Gallery in Connecticut.
a stranger looks at it, and it moves again." Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski keeps
that thought in mind as she researches and executes her beautiful canvases on nautical subjects. Her
paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing and
quarrying and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy. Historic photographs and
informative text about how Maine people made their living 70 to 150 years ago round out this rich and
varied portrayal of a past way of life.
Originally from Long Island, Krupinski moved first to Old Lyme, Connecticut, and then to South
Thomaston, Maine. She worked for many years as an illustrator and graphic designer, before eventually
developing her unique dual career as a maritime artist and illustrator of children's books (27 at last
count). She is also an avid gardener, and wrote the gardening text, A Maine Artist's Garden Journal.
Krupinski is fellow and board member of the American Society of Marine Artists, and a six-time winner
at the International Marine Artists Exhibition at Mystic Gallery in Connecticut.
| May 4, 6:30 to 8pm Reading and Signing at The Camden Public Library Loretta Krupinski Looking Astern |
