News and Readings
CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES
Sponsored by Jamaica Pond Poets
Friday, April 11, 7:30 pm
In Person
LORING GREENOUGH HOUSE, 12 SOUTH STREET
JAMAICA PLAIN CENTER
Come join us at the historic Loring-Greenough House!
Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award), The Book of Shores (2024), and Virology (2022) both from Lily Poetry Review Books, is the winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Chapbook Prize. She volunteered for the Peace Corps in Ecuador, served on the New England Poetry Club board for many years, and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere.
Timothy Gager has published 20 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his latest novel, The Shadows of the Seen, forthcoming with Pierian Springs Press in 2025. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Mass., from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 18 nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio.
Jennifer Markell’s first poetry collection, Samsara, (Turning Point, 2014) was named a "Must Read Book" by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Her second collection, Singing at High Altitude, was published in 2022 by The Main Street Rag. She has received awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, The Comstock Review, The New England Poetry Club, and the Rita Dove Prize for women writers at Salem College. Her poems have been included in numerous publications, including The Bitter Oleander, Consequence, Diode, RHINO, Storm Cellar, and The Women's Review of Books. Jennifer served on the board of The New England Poetry Club for five years and is a long-standing member of the Jamaica Pond Poets. In her work as a psychotherapist and writer, she continues to believe in the power of words to help us feel what we feel and know what we know.
Suggested donation: $5 or whatever you can afford. (We mean this. We would rather have you than your money.) Free refreshments are served.
Parking Information: The Loring Greenough House has a small parking lot. Please try not to park on the grass. There is nonrestricted street parking and a large, free public parking lot off Centre Street between Burroughs and Thomas Streets just a block from the Loring Greenough House.
For more information check our website at http://jamaicapondpoets.com
