Events

Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Andrea Cohen at the Hotel Marlowe.

Andrea Cohen is the author of the
poetry collections Long Division and The
Cartographer's Vacation. Her  poems
and stories have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly,
The Threepenny Review,  Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, andSalmagundi. She is the recipient of the
Owl Creek Poetry Prize, PEN Discovery Award, and Glimmertrain’s Short
Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about
marine research at MIT, where she also edits the online literary journal Sea Change.

Please note: this is an off-site event
to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe

About PEN New England

PEN New
England is an organization of writers and all those who love the
written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in
New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England
is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of
International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world,
and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is
honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books
to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year.
The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members
and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and
essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit
the PEN
New England website.

"The Us is like nothing I have ever read or seen. I thought it impossible to invent anything in poetry...the very thing Houlihan has done."

Lucie Brock-Broido

"Jennifer Militello makes her way through an
incomplete world and comes out with testaments to the elegance found in
all that is missing...What sets these poems apart is that they are not
songs of praise so much as the distant humming of someone who
gathers...the precise words for the long mending ritual."

Dionisio D. Martinez

Joan Houlihan was born and raised in
Massachusetts. She has been a teacher, technical writer, reporter,
editor, and critic. Her previous books are Handheld Executions: Poems
and Essays, and The Mending Worm. In 2004, she founded the Concord
Poetry Center, and in 2006 she established the Colrain Poetry
Manuscript Conference for advanced writers. She is on the faculty of
Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program. Her newest collection is The Us.

Jennifer Militello is the author of Flinch of Song, winner
of the Tupelo Press
First Book Prize, and of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open
Sail. Her poems have been
widely published in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North
American Review, The Paris Review, and The Virginia Quarterly
Review as well as anthologized in Best New Poets
2008, and have been awarded grants and fellowships from
the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund,
Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.