We are pleased to host a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Reading on February 1 are the following poets:

JoAnne Preiser is a poet and a teacher. She received her MA from the University of Massachusetts in 1990 and worked as an English teacher for many years at Dover Sherborn High School. Recently retired, JoAnne is enjoying the additional time she has to spend with her husband, Richard, to work on her writing and to read the piles of books that have rooted next to her bed. She has been published in numerous journals including Alehouse Press, Memoir (and), Slipstream and most recently, New Millennium Writings. Her work has received honors from Friends of Acadia Journal, The Ledge, Inkwell and New Letters. Her chapbook, Confirmation, was published by Finishing Line Press. JoAnne is currently working on a new chapbook which consists of poems centered in the world of film and a full length manuscript which she calls a family memoir in verse.

A few years ago, Connemara Wadsworth retired from 27 years of teaching in nursery elementary schools to write and tutor. When she was a child, her family lived in Baghdad, Iraq, for two years. She has studied and traveled in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America. Her work has been published in magazines including Poet Lore, Comstock Review, Colere, Ibbetson Street Press, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, and the anthology Passionate Hearts. She is completing a manuscript titled, The Possibility of Scorpions, Poems from Baghdad, 1952-1954.

Paul Hostovsky’s poems have won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review, and chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, Frank Cat Press, and Split Oak Press. His work has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Best of the Net, and The Writer’s Almanac. Paul has two full-length collections of poetry, Bending the Notes, and Dear Truth, both from Main Street Rag. He works in Boston as an interpreter for the deaf.