Meg Kearney and Denise Bergman
will read from their new books of poetry

Meg Kearney, who directs the MFA and Solstice Summer Writing Conference at PMC, has just published The Secret of Me: A Novel in Verse written from the point of view of fourteen-year-old Lizzie McLane, who has been adopted. The poems focus on Lizzie's feelings about being adopted and on her conflict over whether to reveal the secret of her birth to her friends.

“Walking into this book is like walking into the world of people you've always known but now get a chance to be close to. Meg Kearney has written a collection of poems that tell an amazing story of loss, love, growing up, and forgiving. This book speaks to anyone who has ever asked the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who will I become?’”

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Denise Bergman's' first book of poetry, Seeing Annie Sullivan, recreates the life of Sullivan who, although best known as Helen Keller's teacher, was a political activist whose innovative teaching methods "foreshadows today's progressive education" (to quote from Preface).

"Denise Bergman's "Seeing Annie Sullivan" is an apt title; I didn''t feel as though I was reading her poems; rather it's as if I was seeing scenes connecting me "like a hyphen to the world" of Annie Sullivan dating from her childhood through her beginning period as teacher to Helen Keller. Ms. Bergman's use of language is the equivalent of a film produced by a gifted cinematograher and motion picture director."

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