News About Facets Writers

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Rosehips Along the Cliffwalk in Kingston, RI Photograph by Anne Hudson

Based on his remarkable play, "The French Impressionist Wrestler," published in our April 2003 issue, Kevin Harvey was a awarded a $5,000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Worcester Magazine has interviewed him about the play, and he is currently in discussions with the Williamstown Theater Festival about the possibility of staging it.

Some of James R. Whitley's poems published in Facets (July 2001 and October 2001) appear in his latest chapbook, entitled THE GOLDEN WEB, published earlier this year by Wind River Press. The chapbook is available at http://paumanok.digitalrice.com/whitley/index.html. More recently, Whitley's second full-length poetry manuscript won this year's Ironweed Press Poetry Prize. As the winner he will receive $1,500, and the collection (entitled THIS IS THE RED DOOR) will be published by Ironweed Press in early 2004.