You are invited to a poetry reading featuring Anne Le Dressay and Mary Lee Bragg on Saturday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. at Bridgehead, 1277 Wellington St. Ottawa. [That’s the big one near Collected Works.]
Anne Le Dressay has been publishing poetry since the 1970’s. She has published two books, Old Winter (2007) and Sleep Is a Country (1997), as well as two chapbooks, “Woman Dreams” (1998) and “This Body That I Live In” (1979). She has worked as a professor of English Literature and creative writing. She now works for the government and is looking forward to retirement.
Mary Lee Bragg has published short stories in Canadian and American literary journals since the early 1990’s, and won the Ottawa Citizen short story contest in 1992. Her novel, Shooting Angels, was published in 2004. Since retiring from the federal public service in 2006, she has begun writing poetry — “now that I have time to concentrate.” She published a chapbook of poetry titled “How Women Work” in 2010.
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This is the second in a new monthly series of coffeehouse events called the SLOWest Coffee House @ Bridgehead. This event is organized by Sustainable Living Ottawa West (“SLOWest”) in collaboration with our neighbourhood Bridgehead coffeeshop. Admission will be “pay what you can.”
In a modest way, we’re hoping that the launch of SLOWest’s Bridgehead coffeehouse series (first Saturday of every month) will help our local community rediscover and reinvent the tradition of the coffeehouse as a place of community and connection, and a fertile ground for interesting conversations that matter.
The idea is to have a regular, predictable time and place for community members to come together in a relaxed way, be entertained with some music, stories or poetry, and enter into conversations about the things that matter to them.