Mark McGuire-Schwartz in Bethel

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Wednesday, December 2 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm

Mark McGuire-Schwartz at WNPS

The poet who was raised by friendly bears, Mark McGuire-Schwartz will
read his experimental and non-experimental poems, with and without
jokes, with and without an alarm clock ringing, with and without
hawks, etc. It's sure to be full of surprises based on his Word of
Mouth reading a few months ago.

Mark McGuire-Schwartz is a sometimes host of WNPS, treasurer and
chairman of WNPS’s ever evolving “committee,” and also a host of Word
of Mouth at the Institute Library in New Haven. He sometimes imagines
that he was raised by bears (as previously noted), and he says it
shows. In his 27 years as a state bureaucrat, Mark strove to raise the
level of memos to an art form. Despite this his short play, Meeting
Arthur Miller, was produced as part of the Short and NEAT program
during the 2004 International Festival of Arts and Ideas, in New
Haven. His work has appeared in The Whatever Journal,
RougueScholars.com, The Fairfield Review, and Bent Pin Quarterly.
However, he protests that he has not yet won many prestigious and
lucrative awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Grant. Oh
well. Oh well. Oh well.

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102 Greenwood Avenue
Bethel, CT
203-739-0313

Every Wednesday night WNPS features accomplished poets and new voices
from around the world, an opportunity for poetic discourse with the
featured poet(s), the hottest open poetry mike in the state, and a
poetry critique workshop in a warm, friendly atmosphere. In their 14th
year, WNPS is the longest-running weekly Poetry Open Mike series in
Connecticut!