 Alice Kociemba, Director of Calliope
Telephone Alice Kociemba 508 566-1090
E-mail Alice Kociemba calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net
Using humor and memory to celebrate people and place, Alice Kociemba is the author of a new chapbook Death of Teaticket Hardware (2010), the title poem of which won an International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review. She is a member of Jamaica Pond Poets, a weekly collaborative workshop and directs of Calliope – Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library, a monthly poetry series. www.calliopepoetryseries.com .
When asked, “How did you get interested in poetry?” Alice credits Emily Dickinson with saving her sanity after she suffered a severe head injury in 1986 and couldn’t read, drive or work for six months. Shortly thereafter, Alice wrote her first poem, seizure, about her experience. As well as working on her first volume of poetry, Seizure and Other Disorders, her recent poems have or will appear in Atlanta Review, Main Street Rag, Off the Coast, Plainsongs, Slant, RoanokeReview and Salamander.
A frequently featured poet, she been described as “the best storyteller I have ever heard”. She has read at Chapter and Verse, opened for Robert Pinsky at the Brookline Poetry Series, and was a panelist and featured poet at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and she featured at the Provincetown Poetry Festival. She facilitates a monthly Poetry Discussion Group at the Falmouth Public Library, an outgrowth of “What’s Falmouth Reading?” of the Favorite Poems Project. Having grown up in Jamaica Plain, Alice now lives in a home overlooking wetlands and works as a psychotherapist in Falmouth, MA.
| 
Home
