Poetry

Geraldine Zetzel has been in love with poetry since 5th grade, when she produced her first sonnet. In addition to her full-length collection, Mapping the Sands, she is the author of two chapbooks, Near Enough to Hear the Words and With Both Hands. Currently, she teaches courses in the Tufts Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the most recent being focused on African-American poets. A longtime practitioner of Theravada Buddhism, she leads several ongoing meditation groups. Geraldine Zetzel lives in Lexington, MA.

Kevin Carey is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Salem State University. He writes poetry, fiction and stage plays. His work can be found in several literary journals, the Apple Valley Review, the Literary Review, the Comstock Review, and the Paterson Literary Review. 

Join three poets for readings from their latest collections.

Magicians, wig makers, sculptors, perfumers, choreographers, and composers all help conjure the worlds of Frank's second collection, The Spokes of Venus. These poems offer a landscape shaped by the tensions between the act of making and the art of observing. If music and art are the sisters of poetry, this collection is a chorus a glorious one of siblings arguing and singing.

Adam Scheffler is the author of A Dog's Life (Jacar Press 2016), which was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of the Jacar Press Full–Length Poetry Book Contest.

Grid Books celebrates the publication of Cold Storage by Keith Althaus, winner of the 2016 Off the Grid Poetry Prize, with a reading by the author and by past winners Patricia Corbus and Dicko King.

Megan Snyder-Camp grew up in Baltimore and earned a BA at Oberlin College and an MFA at the University of Washington.

Tim Suermondt is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Trying To Help The Elephant Man Dance, Just Beautiful, and Election Night And The Five Satins, along with three chapbooks. He has poems published in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Bellevue Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, december Magazine, Plume Poetry Journal, The Southeast Review, Poetry East, and Barrow Street, among others. He is a book reviewer for Cervena Barva Press and a poetry reviewer for Bellevue Literary Review.

Finally: a posthuman translation of Shakespeare. I'm glad Daniel Y. Harris beat Watson at it. There are still large chunks of human in his kind lineation." — Andrei Codrescu, author of Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)

Join two poets for readings from their new collections, Waitress at the Red Moon Pizzeria and Steel.

In Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather’s newspaper, Collins constructs a “scrapbook” of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924.

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition.