Teresa Cader is the author of three collections of poetry. Guests (1991) won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver) and The Journal Award in poetry from the Ohio State University Press. The Paper Wasp (1999) was published by Northwestern University Press; a sequence from it won the George Bogin Memorial Award. History of Hurricanes came out in 2009 and was selected as a “Must Read” book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and a finalist for the Sheila Motton Prize rom the New England Poetry Club.

Cader has won fellowships and awards from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, AGNI, Harvard Review, Harvard Magazine, Ploughshares, FIELD, Perihelion, Southwest Review, The Legacy Project, Slate Magazine, and many other periodicals. She has taught at MIT, UMass-Boston, and Emerson College. She is currently MFA National Faculty in Creative Writing in Poetry at the Lesley University low-residency program.

Charles W. Pratt, a former English teacher at the Phillips Exeter Academy, for 27 years owned and operated with his wife Joan a small apple orchard in southeastern New Hampshire. His first book of poems, In the Orchard, (with drawings by Arthur Balderacchi, Tidal Press), was selected as a Notable Book for 1986 by the American Library Association; his chapbook Still Here was winner of The Finishing Line Press Prize in poetry in 2008. From the Box Marked "Some Are Missing" (new and selected poems) appeared in 2010 as Volume I of the Hobblebush Books Granite State Poetry Series for "poets whose work has already received recognition but deserves to be more widely known."

The Pratts have now turned their orchard over to new owners in the hope that it will continue longer than they do, and have returned to live in Exeter.

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• Building a Better Poem: Ongoing Workshop
  Instructor: Joan Houlihan, CPC Founder, Poet & Editor
  Course Description & Registration
  Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pm (Enroll anytime for 4-week period)
   
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C.D.Wright & Forrest Gander America's foremost poetry couple doubled our pleasure. St. Patrick's Day Gala Gathering Kennedy, Donnelly, Delanty, Kearney, Houlihan, Tobin, Casey & More. Lucie Brock-Broido Came to Our Town Professor Brock-Broido showed us why she runs the show at Columbia. Tribute to Jane Kenyon Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff loved Kenyon and her poetry, and we found out why. An Evening of Great Poems Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart in a grand poetic conspiracy. Dillon Bustin Sings Thoreau Dillon and his harmonic convergence of Thoreau, poetry, and song. To the Honor of Donald Justice With Jorie Graham, Peter Sacks, Steven Cramer and more of the stars Justice helped to light. Franz Wright Inaugurates the Center Fall, 2004 Fresh Pulitzer Prize in hand, Franz wielded his spell-binding poems to dazzling effect. It couldn't have been a better start.




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