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Join us Monday, May 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Shirlington Branch Library for a reading and discussion of Meanwhile, the newest collection by local poet Kathleen O'Toole.
Ms. O?Toole received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and has taught writing at Hopkins and at the Maryland Institute College. Since 1993 her poems have appeared in regional and national journals and magazines, including America, Christian Century, Little Patuxent Review, Margie, Natural Bridge, New Millennium Writings, Poetry, Potomac Review and online in Beltway and Delaware Review. O'Toole lives in Takoma Park, Md.
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Author Talk: Kathleen O'Toole's "Meanwhile"
Join us Monday, May 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Shirlington Branch Library for a reading and discussion of Meanwhile, the newest collection by local poet Kathleen O'Toole.
Meanwhile
A photocopy of my mother?s heart,
neatly folded, falls from the leaf end
of Yeats? Collected.
Her cardiologist has drawn squiggles
and blobs to mark the arteries
blocked: diffuse 80%, 70% plaque,
more squiggles for the bypasses
the heart has patiently grown
to feed its urgent muscle...
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Ms. O?Toole received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and has taught writing at Hopkins and at the Maryland Institute College. Since 1993 her poems have appeared in regional and national journals and magazines, including America, Christian Century, Little Patuxent Review, Margie, Natural Bridge, New Millennium Writings, Poetry, Potomac Review and online in Beltway and Delaware Review. O'Toole lives in Takoma Park, Md.
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