Women writers showcase at Mad Poets' Cafe Sunday, March 13, 2005 (15:38:18) Posted by John WHO: Saunderstown's Joy Veaudry, Westerly's Jude Rittenhouse and Babson College associate professor Mary Pinard WHAT: Mad Poets Cafe: An Evening of Spoken Word Performances, monthly poetry reading. WHERE: Warwick Museum of Art 3259 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886 www.warwickmuseum.org WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 2005 7 - 10 p.m. Admission: $5.00 WHY: The Mad Poets' Cafe brings the best poets and writers in New England to Warwick every month and holds an open mike segment to give voice to local talent. The award-winning Mad Poet's Café: An Evening of Spoken Word Performances will be returning to the Warwick Museum of Art on Saturday, March 26, 2005. In honor of Women's History Month, the Museum presents three of New England's most outstanding female poets: Saunderstown's Joy Veaudry, Westerly's Jude Rittenhouse and Babson College associate professor Mary Pinard. Now in its third year, the critically acclaimed monthly poetry event continues to provide a welcoming venue to the greatest poets, writers and spoken word performers in New England. Recently, the Mad Poets Café was voted "Best Place to Hear a Reading" in the 2004 Providence Phoenix Reader's Poll. March’s Featured Poets Joy Veaudry rediscovered writing when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994. Currently, retired from a career in college administration, she teaches meditation and visualization to breast cancer survivors. Her work has been published in Sudden Thoughts, Warwick, RI and Moon Journal, Arlington Heights, IL. She has published two collections: Cancer Walkabout and, most recently, Meeting the Grand Dame, co-authored by Helen Quade and commissioned by Moon Journal Press to celebrate its tenth anniversary March, 2005. Joy lives in southern Rhode Island with her husband and children as well as a menagerie of dogs, cats, chickens, peacocks and koi. Jude Rittenhouse was a finalist for the 2003 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, received an honorable mention in the 2002 Emily Dickinson Awards, won a 1999 Glimmer Train Press poetry award and has been a Vermont Studio Center Writer's Grant recipient. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including Nimrod, River Oak Review, Seeding the Snow, Her Mark 2005 (Woman Made Gallery, 2005) and The Kali Guide: A Directory of Resources for Women (Zenprint, 2002), among others. Along with writing and freelance editing, she teaches at conferences, retreats, holistic education centers, hospitals, and domestic violence shelters. She was also a founding co-editor and is currently a contributing editor for the Illinois-based literary magazine Moon Journal. Mary Pinard is a poet and associate professor of English at Babson College, where she directs and teaches in the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program. She holds graduate degrees in English from the University of Chicago and in poetry from Vermont College. She has held teaching positions at Emerson College and Wright State University and has also been a research fellow at The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Pinard's poems have appeared in a range of literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Poetry East, and The Nebraska Review. As always, budding poets or those wanting to debut new material are invited to take part in the Mad Poets' open mike segment. Sign-up starts at 7 p.m. For further information about the Mad Poets' Café poetry series or any of the Warwick Museum of Art's other programs, please call the Museum office at 737-0010 or visit www.warwickmuseum.org. Warwick Museum of Art 3259 Post Road Warwick, RI 02886 Content received from: GotPoetry.com, http://www.gotpoetry.com