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Gregory Betts, poet, editor, essayist and teacher, is the next presenter in the 2012 Writers Series at St. Bonaventure University, organized by the Department of English and funded by the Good Ideas Grants initiated by the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Betts will read from his works starting at 5:10 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Dresser Auditorium of the Murphy Professional Building on campus. His presentation is free and open to all. Betts is the author of five books of poetry including “If Language” (2005), a collection of 56 paragraph-length anagrams, and “The Others Raised in Me” (2009), a sequence of 150 “plunderverse” poems created by deleting words and letters from William Shakespeare’s sonnet 150. His poetry and experimental prose have been published in journals and magazines across Canada and the United States, as well as in a few European nations. His work has appeared in the conceptual writing anthology “Against Expression.” Betts is the editor of four collections ...

The St. Bonaventure University theater program is excited to present its spring production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” March 21-24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on the SBU campus. Professor of theater Dr. Ed. Simone directs a cast of 19 Bonaventure students in this comedic classic by William Shakespeare; a play Simone called “hysterical, moving and literally magical.” “‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ is the story of many small characters caught up in a big mess: lovers ensnared by potions, an ignorant weaver affixed with a donkey’s head, and a powerful fairy duped into an impossible romance,” said junior Brett Keegan, who plays the role of Demetrius, one of four lovers caught in the play’s comic web. Simone, the cast, and Prof. Rebecca Misenheimer and her technical/design crew are working to implement a few fresh updates in their production of this Shakespearean masterpiece. “There’s no point to doing Shakespeare the way it was done in Shakespeare’s time...

Eleanor Brown's book "The Weird Sisters" tells the story of three sisters who have returned to their childhood home for different reasons, and the lessons they learn while they're there. Shakespeare fans may wonder if the title means the book has something to do with Shakespeare. The answer is "yes," but you don't have to know anything about The Bard to enjoy the book. You can listen to my conversation with Eleanor Brown here . Bradford Area Public Library . The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947