Acorn Continues LOWRY’S LODGE in April

The April poetry readings hosted by Jim Donnelly and Anna Wrobel at the Acorn Studio Theater in the Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook continues on Friday, April 13th at 7 p.m.  Local poets Michael Macklin and Marty Pottenger will read from their work and take questions from the audience after their readings.  The event is free with a $5 suggested donation.

Michael Macklin is a member of the staff of the Cafe Review, and dreams of spending time at the ancient monastery of the island of Sceilig Mhichil off the west coast of Ireland. He received his MFA from Vermont College. He has published poems in the Cafe Review, The Aurorean, Animus, Rattleand other journals, and several anthologies. Michael is the Reviews Editor of The Cafe Review, an international literary journal based in Portland, Maine. He owes a great deal to the support of his wife Donna and his son Gabriel, a hip-hop DJ.

Marty Pottenger’s performances have been produced throughout Europe and the United States. A pioneer in theater, community arts and civic dialogue movement, the New York Times described her OBIE-winning “City Water Tunnel #3” as “Lyrical...speaking with intimate knowledge, and yes, even love...a blending of Studs Terkel, Anna Deavere Smith and Pete Seeger.” ABUNDANCE, written from interviews with over 30 millionaires and 30 minimum wage workers, was one of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s ten best plays of 2003. Former union activist, Board Chair of American Festival Project and Heresies magazine collective, Pottenger moved to Portland in 2007 to launch Art At Work, a national initiative to strengthen cities through the arts. She is currently working on 'Cake Eaters' a collection of prose poems about life in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Florida in the 50's and 60's. More on her work can be found at http://www.martypottenger.com.

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