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Friends to Host Poets Laureate Lisa Starr and Rick Benjamin as a part of National Poetry Month

As a part of their National Poetry Month Celebration, The Friends of the East Greenwich Free Library will host special guests, Poets Laureate Lisa
Starr and Rick Benjamin, on Thursday, April 24, from 6-8pm. Lisa and Rick will read poetry,
share insights, and answer questions at this special reception.



Rick
Benjamin is the State Poet of Rhode Island. He teaches at Brown University, the
Rhode Island School of Design, and the MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts at
Goddard College. He also serves as a Fellow at New Urban Arts. The author of
two books of poetry, his poems & essays have also appeared in numerous print media.



Lisa Starr is a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island
Fellowship for Poetry and the founder and director of the Block Island Poetry
Project, a writing series she operates at her inn,
The Hygeia, on
Block Island . She has published three full-length collections of poetry.

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