The Fox Series featuring Eve Rifkah reading her poetry and the poetry of Gertrude Halstead

Join us on June 2nd at 5pm the Broadway Restaurant .Free admission.
$2 off metered parking with a food purchase.
Sign up for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com
Please support this locally-owned venue.

Eve Rifkah  was co-founder of Poetry Oasis, Inc., Founder, and editor DINER, a literary magazine. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz medal. She lives in Worcester, MA. The play, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island, was based on her first book. She has 6 books, Webpage: eve-rifkah.com

Gertrude Halstead was born in Germany in 1916. She escaped to France where during the war she was interned in Camp Gurs in the south of France. She volunteered to work as an interpreter and subsequently escaped by having the French guards sign release papers. She eventually made it to Portugal where she was able to get passage on the last ship leaving for the United States the Excalibur. Her work has appeared in Sahara, Diner VOX,  Amoskeag , Surroundings East and Columbia Poetry Review. Her first book “memories like burrs” was published by Adastra Press. She has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, received the  Awarded Outstanding Achievement in Poetry 2006 UMass/Dartmouth, and was the first Poet Laureate of Worcester,  MA, and recipient of a 2008 Worcester, MA,  Cultural Council Fellowship Award. A song-cycle composed by Mauro DePasquale for piano, cello, alto was filmed and is part of a documentary on Halstead filmed by award winning film maker Peter Swanson of Global Visions.