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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 5:30 pm Sassy Ross reveals that the purpose of her writing is to make visible what, without the poem, might never be seen. Her poetry hinges on the complexity of the family, particularly the experience of being “brought into the world by one mother, raised by another, and abandoned by both.” Born on the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, Ms Ross moved to Virginia at the age of ten. She began writing poetry as an undergraduate student at Pennsylvania State University as a way of reclaiming the years, landscape, and dialects of youth. The Managing Editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, Ms Ross’s work is constantly negotiating her own geography, striving to maintain a balance between successions of hyphenated selves: immigrant-native, daughter-orphan, poet-scholar. At The Yard, Off Middle Rd, Chilmark
Make 5:30 pm dinner reservations for any evening at Sweet Life, and enjoy a prix-fixe menu that includes salad, entrée and dessert, along with premium tickets and reserved parking to the Yard, all for $85 / person. Sweet Life promises that you’ll be on your way by 7:30 pm. If you take advantage of this offer, you will also receive a 10% discount on any Stina Sayre Fashion purchase. Call 508-645-9662 for reservations and information.
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Poetry Reading by Sassy Ross