Poetry reading to be held at Gallery 37 in Milford April 1
Marcia Reed, owner of Gallery 37 at 8 S. Walnut St. in downtown Milford, will host a poetry reading at 3 p.m., Saturday, April 1, in the auditorium of the Music School of Delaware, next door to the gallery.
Poets Meredith Davies Hadaway of Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and Sherry Chappelle of Rehoboth Beach will be the featured readers. They will be followed by special guest Cecilia Ergueta, the 2017 recitation winner of Poetry Out Loud. Ergueta will represent Delaware at the National Competition in Washington, D.C., later in April. She is a junior from Wilmington Friends School.
Hadaway is the author of three collections of poetry: “At The Narrows” (winner of the 2015 Delmarva Book Prize for Creative Writing); “The River is a Reason”; and “Fishing Secrets of the Dead.” Her work has recently appeared in Salamander, poemmemoirstory, New Ohio Review, Mantis and Valparaiso Poetry Review. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and multiple Pushcart nominations. She holds a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Hadaway is a former Rose O'Neill Writer-in-Residence at Washington College, where she taught English and creative writing in addition to serving as vice president for communications and marketing.
Chappelle was the 2011 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize winner for her chapbook, “Salmagundi.” Her poems have appeared in the Broadkill Review, Delmarva Review and Delaware Beach Life, among other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies. She was awarded the 2016 Emerging Artist Fellowship in poetry from Delaware Division of Arts. She is a member of the Coastal Writers and the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild.
The poetry reading will be held in conjunction with an art opening at the gallery. The artists participating are Claire Shenk Rodgers, a Philadelphia potter; Linda Batchelor, monotype collage artist from Northampton, Mass.; and Catherine Green, silk screen artist of Stratham, N.H.
A reception immediately following the reading will be held at Gallery 37. For more information, email linblask@aol.com. The reading will be held at 10 South Walnut St. in Milford, and the gallery is at 8 South Walnut St.
