Lois Ames, Friend and Confidant of Anne Sexton to Host a Wilderness House Literary Lunch

Wilderness House Literary Retreat continues its tradition by presenting A Lunch with Lois Ames," A casual chat over lunch with poet and biographer (of Anne Saxton) Lois Ames. A warm cozy fire, lunch and hot cider make an exceptional environment in which to talk about reading and writing -- and life.

Littleton MA (PRWEB) February 23, 2005 -- Wilderness House Literary Retreat continues its tradition by presenting A Lunch with Lois Ames," A casual chat over lunch with poet and biographer Lois Ames. A warm cozy fire, lunch and hot cider make an exceptional environment in which to talk about reading and writing -- and life. Bring your favorite poems or stories to read or just come, listen and feast.

Lois Ames is a poet, biographer and psychotherapist. Born in Boston, she graduated from Smith College, and from the University of Chicago with a Master of Arts degree in psychiatric social work. She has published many biographical essays on Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, including "A Biographical Note" in The Bell Jar (Harper & Row) and Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters (Houghton Mifflin). She has received, among other awards and citations, a gold medal from The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Alumni Association, "For Outstanding Achievements in Education & Human Welfare." She is Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The mother of a son and a daughter, she lives on an old family farm in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

April 9th from 11 A.M. till 3 P.M.

$25 per person, limited to 20 participants.

The event will take place in the Great Room of the headquarters of the New England Forestry Foundation at 32 Foster Street, Littleton MA

History:

Wilderness House is a 7-bedroom cabin built in the early 20th century as a sportsman retreat by a large wealthy family. Situated deep within several hundred acres of forest, Wilderness House sits on the second highest point in Littleton MA with an unobstructed view of the Wapack Range and, on a clear day, Mt. Monadnock some 40 miles distant in New Hampshire. A series of trails lead from the cabin atop Wilderness Hill through this primitive preserve to a private dock nestled in a secluded corner of Littletons Long Lake.

Wilderness House is owned and managed by the New England Forestry Foundation in cooperation with the Littleton Rotary Club. Wilderness House Inc. is a charitable, non-profit Massachusetts corporation dedicated to literature and literacy.

Wilderness House Inc. will offer a series of intense literary workshops lead by an acknowledged literary master of their genre. Each week a different literary genre will be presented. We may have poets one week, mystery writers the next followed by playwrights after that. The goal of the Wilderness House Literary Retreat is to embrace the literary goals of each participant in such a way as to empower each writer to become better than when they arrived and to inspire each participant with a new sense of what can be. See www.wildernesshouse.org for more information and background.

Wilderness House is accessible by car from Rt. 2 and Rt. 495 as well as commuter rail (the Fitchburg line) at the Littleton/495 station. Wilderness House is an easy mile walk from the station.

Wilderness House Inc.

145 Foster Street, Littleton MA 01460

Contacts Steve Glines (978-952-6340) info@wildernesshouse.org

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