A weekly Open Mic with a focus on poetry, autobiographical storytelling, and other choice narrative performances.

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Feature Alexandria Peary   www.prolificmoment.com

Alexandria Peary is the author of six books, including Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing (Routledge 2018) and The Water Draft, her fourth collection of poetry (Spuyten Duyvil 2019). Her work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Slope Editions Book Prize, and the Joseph Langland Award from the Academy of American Poets. More information about her work is available at the Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alexandria-peary

In addition to poetry, she writes creative nonfiction and fiction. Alexandria specializes in mindful writing to help others alleviate writing blocks and anxiety, the subject of her TEDx talk (September 2019), “How Mindfulness Can Change The Way You Think About Writing.” She is a professor in the English Department at Salem State University where she teaches creative writing and mindful writing.

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