<div dir="ltr">I send this earlier today without thinking. Here's a corrected note--and it's still going to be a splendid evening.<div><br><div>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">A friend in University Park sends this invitation:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">

<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-m_1839548257855085042ox-c33213d066-ox-615a4a48e0-im"><span style="font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-m_1839548257855085042ox-c33213d066-ox-615a4a48e0-m_7404079356788634683gmail-m_-6292939017457358167gmail-s1">In celebration of National Poetry Month our presentation this month will be made by two poets, Sally Rosen Kindred and Sarah Ann Winn.  They are calling their talk and readings, </span></span></span><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-m_1839548257855085042ox-c33213d066-ox-615a4a48e0-im"><span style="font-family:Times"><em><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-m_1839548257855085042ox-c33213d066-ox-615a4a48e0-m_7404079356788634683gmail-m_-6292939017457358167gmail-s1">There Is More to the Storm than the Lightning: Two Poets Discuss Inspiration and Process. <span> </span></span></em><br></span></span></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-m_1839548257855085042ox-c33213d066-ox-615a4a48e0-m_7404079356788634683gmail-m_-6292939017457358167gmail-s1">These two poets will consider the kinds of exploratory reading and field work--including interaction with other art forms and with landscape--we do to inspire ourselves. They will also look at exercises, projects, and methods of drafting and revision that they use to keep challenging themselves and to sustain their writing practice. Then they will share some of the poems that have grown out of these practices. There will be </span>time for questions and answers, and a few new tools to enrich anyone's creative practices, no matter what the medium!</span><span style="font-family:Times"><br></span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:14pt">All are welcome to attend: </span></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:14pt">University Park Church of the Brethren, </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=4413+Tuckerman+Street&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:14pt;font-family:Times">4413 Tuckerman Street</a><span style="font-size:14pt">,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-aBn" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_-4197193507086228944m_4522395900652021961gmail-aQJ">5 PM, April 14, 2018.</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times"> </span></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:14pt">Bios:</span><br></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times">Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of two poetry books from Mayapple Press, <em>Book of Asters</em> (2014) and <em>No Eden</em> (2011). Her chapbooks are <em>Darling Hands, Darling Tongue</em> (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) and <em>Garnet Lanterns</em> (2006), winner of the Anabiosis Press Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and has received two Individual Artist Awards in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has taught writing online for 10 years for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Her poems have appeared recently and are forthcoming in <em>The Gettysburg Review</em>, <em>Pleiades</em>, <em>Poetry Northwest</em>, and <em>Kenyon Review Online</em>. </span></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Times"><br></span><span style="font-family:Times">Sarah Ann Winn’s first book, <em>Alma Almanac </em>(Barrow Street, 2017), won the Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Elaine Equi. She is the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which, <em>Exhibition Catalogue Pamphlet from the Grimm Forest Open Air Museum, </em>is forthcoming from Yellow Flag Press. She holds an MFA from George Mason University and an MLS from Catholic University of America. She has been a resident of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Inner Loop’s Arcadia Residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright Pope-Leahey House and Woodlawn Plantation. Her poems have appeared in Five Points, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Massachusetts Review. Visit her at <a href="http://bluebirdwords.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://bluebirdwords.com</a> or follow her @blueaisling.</span></p>

Yours, the more in haste but the less in speed, <br></div></div><div>KK</div></div>