Former New Bedford Poet Laureate to visit UMass Dartmouth tomorrow April 21 for poetry reading
UMass Dartmouth's College of Arts & Sciences has invited the University community and the general public to a poetry reading from "The Music & Other Selected Poems" by Everett Hoagland Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 2-3:30 p.m., at UMass Dartmouth's Claire T. Carney Library Stoico/FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room. Everett Hoagland served as the Poet Laureate of New Bedford 1994-1998. He is the recipient of the 2015 Langston Hughes Award.
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