Events

We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Reading on October 19 are the following poets: Robin Pelzman’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, including Moment, Poiesis, Salamander, The Comstock Review, The Coinflip Shuffle, and Ballard Street Poetry Journal.  She has work forthcoming in Barrow Street, The Aurorean, CHEST, and Poetry East.  Her manuscript, The Frozen Embryo Takes Questions, is in search of a publisher and her second collection, tentatively titled The Maps We Chose, is in progress.  She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband and son. Matthew Sisson’s work has appeared in The Larcom Review, Poetry East, The English Journal, Sahara, Rhino, the anthology Mercy Of Tides and many other literary magazines. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008 and is the former poetry editor of the trade journal Modern SteelConstruction. Suellen Wedmore, Poet Laureate emerita for the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts, has been widely published. She has been awarded first place in the Writer’s Digest rhyming poem contest, her chapbook Deployed was selected as winner of the Grayson Press annual contest, and she was awarded a writing residency at Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. Her chapbook, On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes, was recently released by Finishing Line Press. After 24 years working as a speech and language therapist, Suellen retired to pursue an MFA in Poetry at New England College, graduating in 2004.