Events

We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from theWorkshop for Published Poets. Reading on December 7 are the following poets:   Julie Nibe has recently published poems in Off the Coast, Coin Flip Shuffle, Getting Bi, The Fence, and is working on a memoir of life with Crohn's Disease. Julie was a founding member of collaborative writing group v.e.r.b.a.t.i.m., whose archives can be found on the web at oxhouse.org. She has taught writing to children and young adults and currently is a sexuality educator by day. Julie lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner and zero cats.     Grey Held is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Grey has had poems included in various anthologies, including O Taste and See, Familiar, My Heart’s First Steps, Rough Places Plain, and The Art of Bicycling. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including Antigonish Review, Brooklyn Review, Fox Cry Review, Potomac Review, Slipstream, and Spoon River Poetry Review. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He has taught art at Ohio State University and the Art Institute of Boston. He’s been Computer Programmer, International Marketing Manager, Research Director, and is currently Director of Client Services at Forrester Research in Cambridge. He and his wife, Leslie Held, a costume designer, live in Newton, MA. Deborah DeNicola's spiritual memoir The Future That Brought Her Here was recently released from Nicholas Hays/Ibis Press. A second full collection of poetry, Original Human, is forthcoming in 2010 from WordTech Press. Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from The University Press of New England. Previous books include Where Divinity Begins from Alice James Books and three award winning chapbooks, most recently Inside Light from Finishing Line Press. Among other awards, Deborah has received an NEA Fellowship. She won Analytical Essay Award, and the Santa Barbara Poetry Contest in 2008 and is included in The Packingtown Review’sThe Best of The Net 2008 Anthology. Her poetry is published widely in journals and online.