Dancing The Words: A Conversation and Reading with Mary Moore Easter and Lillo Way

Folio is pleased to invite you to a lunch time conversation and poetry reading with poets and dancers Mary Moore Easter and Lillo Way. Interviewed by Ciara McCormack.

Dancers and choreographers literally embody rhythm, sound, dynamics, breath, and phrasing—all essential elements of poetry.  Lillo and Mary will share stories from their careers as dancers and choreographers, and discuss how dance, music and theater have influenced the structure and style of their poems.

At the still point of the turning world...there the dance is. —T.S. Eliot

Hard times require furious dancing.―Alice Walker

Lillo Way is numerous times a Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Poet Lore, Tampa Review, New Letters, Louisville Review, New Orleans Review, Tar River Poetry, Madison Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Poetry East, The American Journal of Poetry, among others. Twelve of Way's poems are included in anthologies. Way has received grants from the National Endowment the Arts, the…