We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Reading on November 2 are the following poets:
Susan McDonough published her first poem in Fountainspray magazine in 1979. She didn't pick up her pen again for nearly 25 years. But last year was an extraordinary year for her. Two of her poems, "Tattoo" and "Noose" were published in the Routledge anthology, Queer & Catholic. Shortly thereafter, she met Barbara Helfgott Hyett and joined the Workshop for Publishing Poets. And Susan hasn’t put her pen down since.
Margie Flanders is a poet and musician who lives in Southern Rhode Island, close enough to the ocean to swim at least every other day for a third of the year. She is part of a poetry outreach program, Power To The Poets, and she leads an ongoing workshop at the men’s Medium Security Prison in Cranston, RI. Recently she recorded her poems to be broadcast for Insight Radio, for the blind and sight-impaired community in RI. Margie’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including Boston Review, Yankee Magazine, Connecticut River Review, Comstock Review, Nimrod, and Ballard Street Journal.
Richard Waring has had poems published in Sanctuary, the magazine of the Massachusetts Audubon Society; Chest, a journal for thoracic surgeons; Mothering; The Journal of the American Medical Association; The Comstock Review; and The American Journal of Nursing, among others. His chapbook, Listening to Stones, was brought out by Puddinghouse Press in 1999. One of his poems, “Skateboarder,” appeared in a friend’s son’s lunchbox. Another poem, “Jack and Jill,” was taught in a prison. During the ’70s, he studied with Allen Ginsberg in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, but nobody outdoes Barbara Helfgott Hyett. Richard is the regular host of this reading series.
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