Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Meets At The Newton Free Library In Newton, Mass. 330 Homer Street. Director: Doug Holder 617-628-2313 Dougholder@Post.Harvard.Edu (Meets Second Tuesday Of Designated Months.7PM Open Mic.)

Ben Berman --Ben Berman’s First Book, Strange Borderlands (Able Muse Press, 2012), Won The Peace Corps Award For Best Book Of Poetry And Was A Finalist For The Massachusetts Book Awards. His Second Book Is Figuring In The Figure, Forthcoming From Able Muse Press In 2017. He Has Received Awards From The New England Poetry Club And Fellowships From The Massachusetts Cultural Council And Somerville Arts Council. He Is The Poetry Editor At Solstice Literary Magazine And Teaches In The Boston Area, Where He Lives With His Wife And Daughters.

Richard Waring---
Richard Waring’s Poems Have Appeared In The Comstock Review, Chest, Sanctuary, Contact II, Dark Horse, The American Journal Of Nursing,Mothering, Inward Springs, The Journal Of The American Medical Association,And Other Publications. Richard Has A B.A. In English Literature From Drew University And Attended The Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics At Naropa Institute, Where He Studied The Poetry Of William Carlos Williams With Allen Ginsberg. From 1982 To 1988. He Is A Senior Layout Artist For The New England Journal Of Medicine. His Latest Collection Is What Love Tells Me.

Clara Silverstein---Clara Silverstein Is The Author Of Four Books, A Blogger About Historic Recipes At Heritagerecipebox.Com, And A Long-Time Writer In The Boston Area. She Has Taught At Grub Street, Inc., Consulted With Individual Writers, And Worked With Young Adults As A Tutor And At The Books Of Hope Literacy Empowerment Program. From 2008 To 2017, She Directed The Chautauqua Writers' Center, Which Sponsors Creative Writing Workshops And Author Programs At The Chautauqua Institution.

Joyce Wilson--- Joyce Wilson, editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997, has taught English at Boston University and Suffolk University. A chapbook of twenty poems inspired by the Fore River Bridge, The Need for a Bridge, was published with Finishing Line Press in March 2019. A full-length manuscript Take and Receive appeared with Kelsay Books in May 2019.

James Najamar --- Lives in Newton. He teaches Victorian literature at Boston College, and edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. His first book of poetry, The Goat Songs. won the Vassar Miller Prize and is being published by the University of North Texas Press this April. A. E. Stallings was the judge.

Ravi Yelamanchili-- His writing has previously been published in the Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Somerville Times, Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature, Muse India, and several other journals.

Curated by Doug Holder

This year’s Poetry Series continues with readings by Wyn Cooper, Nausheen Eusuf and Michael Steffen. An open mike will follow with a limit of one poem per person. Come early to sign up for the open mike; limited slots are available, time permitting. The series is facilitated by Doug Holder of Ibbetson Street Press. Info contact: Doug at dougholder@post.harvard.edu.