Poetry

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

Stephen is sometimes Stephanie and sometimes wonders how his past and her past are their own collective memory.

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

Helen Marie Casey's Zero Degrees is a brave endeavor to remember victims of hatred, mayhem, and violence. The writer of this series embeds poems of remarkable strength and beauty in our consciousness. She makes international turmoil real and vivid to us, not as a journalist, but as a poet of intensity and empathy.

Celebrate National Poetry Month by performing your favorite poem written by someone else. It can be a classic that everyone knows or some little known gem you’d like to introduce to the world. You can do a straightforward reading or you can the poem into a performance. It just needs to be around five minutes or less of performance time and written by someone else. (That’s what makes it karaoke.)

In Mars Poetica, Wyn Cooper explores the conscious and unconscious ways we comprehend both the world around us and the one inside. From subjects like fashion, film, music, and painting, to more solemn and universal themes such as desire, anxiety, and loss, Cooper shows how such disparate topics can mirror each other in ways that help us to illuminate our lives.

How can one reconcile the irreconcilable? In this masterful companion to Day Unto Day, Martha Collins finds common ground between contradictions--beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political.

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

How does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert's debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poems examine "the gap / between the world & how / people paint it: dark, distant, there / for the taking." He makes us look at our disintegrating world head on and see what we've done to it, and what it has done to us.