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GennaRose Nethercott – ‘The Lumberjack’s Dove’
Friday, May 3 @ 7:30pmThe Lumberjack’s Dove is GennaRose Nethercott’s debut narrative poem which brings to bear an enchanting fabulist sensibility in her haunting story of a woodsman who cuts his hand off with an axe – only to watch it shapeshift into a dove.
This reading will be accompanied by a shadow-puppet crankie box, which animates segments of the text through 60 feet of scrolling, panoramic hand-cut paper images.
The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. GennaRose Nethercott is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including BOMB, The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, and PANK, and she has been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, Art Farm Nebraska, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. A born Vermonter, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter.
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