FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010!

James Thomas Stevens from Lamy, New Mexico, is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe and a poet.  He is an author of numerous volumes of poetry including, Bulle/Chimere, A Bridge Dead in the Water, Mohawk/Samoa:  Transmigrations and Tokinish. An international poet with professional invitations to France, Turkey, and China, Stevens spoke at the IIPF in the United Nations in 2006. He formerly taught at Haskell Indian Nations University and remains a vibrant member of the Native community as well as a leading young American Poet..

Carolyn Gage a playwright, author and 2010 Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow from Portland, Me will perform her one act play, Parmachene Belle. In the play she portrays Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, a Maine hunting guide who has a romantic crush on Annie Oakley. Gage is a lesbian feminist playwright, performer, director and activist.  The author of twelve books, and fifty five plays, musicals and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history.

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