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Year 33, No. 29
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Bryn Mawr Native Publishes New Book We Became Summer Meet Amy Barone at Free Library’s “Monday Poets” Series April 9 YQ Books™ announces the publication of We Became Summer by Amy Barone. In her first full-length poetry collection, Barone takes readers on a journey of aware ness and transcendence, where an eclectic
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Amy Barone will read from “We Became Summer” at The Monday Poets series at the Free Library on April 9. soundtrack continuously plays and steamy weather produces the sweetest fruit. Family and lovers may disappoint, but redemption is unearthed in familiar and other-worldly places. In these mini-tales imbued with wit and color, Barone regales readers with poems of longing, setbacks, and joy. Visit http://books.nyq.org/ title/we_became_summer. Amy Barone is the author of Kamikaze Dance, from Finishing Line Press, which recognized her as a finalist in the 2014 Annual New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Foothills Publishing released her first chapbook, Views from the Driveway, in 2008. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other magazines and anthologies. She spent five years as Italian correspondent in Milan for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. Barone has worked as a communications director at non-profit, government, and private organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Villanova University and a Master degree from the Thunderbird School of Global See Meet Amy Barone at Free Library’s “Monday Poets” on page 5
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will present “The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Constitution” at The Haverford School on April 4. ric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will present “The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Constitution” for the 28th annual Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture at The Haverford School on Wednesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the School’s Centennial Hall. A book signing will follow the event and Foner’s books, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History, and Reconstruction Updated: America’s Unfinished
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Co-Authors Tony and Bart Campolo Discuss Book, Why I Left/Why I Stayed Guest Speakers at Free Community Forum at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church April 9 ferences and explore similart isn’t easy these days to ities involving faith, belief, and discuss conflicting ideas hope that they share. about religion or politics Over a Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family while several years ago, 50-year-old maintaining relationships. Bart Campolo announced to And yet a prominent father and son have done just that. The Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo The Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo (right) and his son Bart and his son Bart will be the Campolo (left) will be the guest speakers on Monday, guest speakers on Monday, April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Bryn April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church for Mawr Presbyterian Church the Community Forum Distinfor the Community Forum guished Speakers Series. They Distinguished Speakers co-authored Why I Left/Why I Series. Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangel his Evangelical pastor father, ical Father and His Humanist Tony Campolo, that after a lifeSon (paperback Feb. 20, 2018). time immersed in the ChrisThis evening presentation tian faith, he no longer believed offers the dual opportunities in God. The revelation shook of rethinking one’s own relithe Campolo family dynamic gious beliefs and of observand forced father and son to ing two family members’ constructive disagreement. Bestselling Christian author, activist, and scholar Tony each reconsider his own personal journey of faith—dual spiritual investiCampolo and his son Bart, an avowed Humanist, debate their spiritual difSee Co-Authors Tony and Bart Campolo Discuss Book page 6
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