two upcoming events at the clearwater main library

September 12, 2007 at 2:03 pm | In Local Authors, Events, Libraries, Poetry, Books, Tampa Bay Area, Non-Fiction--Memoir |

Saw some upcoming events posted at C-Scapes.livejournal.com:

  • Author to Visit Clearwater Main Library — Author Lynn Marie Smith will discuss her book Rolling Away:My Agony with Ecstasy and will lecture on the dangers of drug abuse and addiction Monday, September 17, at 7 p.m. at the Clearwater Main Library, 100 N. Osceola Ave.
    Smith grew up in a small, rural town in Pennsylvania, and then moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting. In the city she discovered new people, ideas and the drug that almost ruined her life, ecstasy. Rolling Away documents her path to addiction and the struggle to put her life back together and survive.
    Smith has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, MTV’s True Life and is a member of the advisory board for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. This lecture is for teens and adults ages 14 and up.
    For more information visit www.rollingaway.com or call (727) 562-4970, ext. 5244.
    Peter Meinke has published 15 books of poems, seven in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series, the most recent being The Contracted World in 2006. His poetry has received many awards, and his book of short stories, The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O’Connor Award. He directed the Writing Workshop at Eckerd College for 27 years, and has often been writer-in-residence at other colleges and universities. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and dozens of other magazines. He and his wife, artist Jeanne Clark, have lived in St. Petersburg since 1966. In the spring of 2008 he’ll be “Distinguished Poet-in-Residence” at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
    For more information call (727) 562-4970, ext. 5284.

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