Gray Hair Reading Series

UB Professor Emeritus Joan Albarella is author of the comic mystery Sister Amnesia; the Niki Barnes Mystery Series: Close To You, Called to Kill, and Agenda for Murder; four books of poetry: Mirror Me; Poems for the Asking; Women, Flowers, Fantasy (bilingual); and Spirit and Joy; two plays: Katharine Hepburn's Brownies and Mother Cabrini's Mission to America; and over two-hundred poetry, article, and short story publications in periodicals. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Poets & Writers, The Dramatists Guild, and Italian American Writers. She is currently one of the poetry editors of R.KV.RY, an on-line literary journal, and in March will be teaching a course entitled "Writing Your Life Story" for West Seneca Community Education. www.joanalbarella.com

Marjorie Norris has published two poetry volumes, Two Suns, Two Moons and Resilience (Aventine Press). She has edited a community anthology about Buffalo's tree-decimating storm of October 2007 entitled Trees of Surprise (BlazeVox). She has won the Greensboro Poetry Award (2004), and was Just Buffalo's Writer-in-Residence in 1995. Having taught at the Chautauqua Institution, the Feminist Writing Workshop in Ithaca, and the Southeast Writers Conference in Atlanta, she developed a poetry chapbook on the writing life, entitled Chautauqua Breathing. A grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supported the publication of a poetic anthology of AIDS voices called Full Circle. She is a member of the Women of the Crooked Circle and the Café 59 writing group. She is collaborating with Joan Albarella on a writing series tentatively entitled written on the back of my hand.

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February and March, 2011 - 2011