Poet Lynne Procope ushers in First Fridays

NARROWSBURG, NY — The Western Sullivan Public Library’s First Fridays Contemporary Writers Series begins its fourth season on Friday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. with a short open mic, followed by a reading by Lynne Procope.

Procope is a poet and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She is a founder of a New York-based non-profit, the louderARTS Project Inc. and a director of its Workshops and Outreach Program, as well as curator of the experimental performance workshop synonymUS. She was a member of the New York’s 1998 National Poetry Slam Championship winning team. She is co-author of the collection “Burning Down the House”and her work appears in the Summer/Fall 2000 Drums Voices Review.

Poet Cheryl Boyce Taylor, past First Fridays performer, said, “Lynne Procope’s poems are imbued with a vivid sense of language and style. A master at her craft, each line is structured with sparse grace and beauty…. Resonant with clarity, her poems are frank, saucy and introspective.”

First Fridays are free and open to the public. Open mic sign up starts at 7:00 p.m.

For more information call lmoran@rcls.org.