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Poetry at the Old Manse – September
September 24, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons.
Extend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River or bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds.
September Poets:
Frances Donovan is the author of Arboretum in a Jar (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023). Her chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Donovan’s poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Solstice, Heavy Feather Review, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Her interviews of other poets can be found at The Rumpus and on her website, www.gardenofwords.com. Donovan holds an MFA in poetry from Lesley University and is a certified Poet Educator with Mass Poetry. A poem of hers has been displayed at Boston City Hall. Donovan’s work deals with themes of home, family, intergenerational trauma, and sexual and gender identity. She remembers fondly the summer of 1998, when she drove a bulldozer in a Pride parade while wearing a bustier.
Marybeth Rua-Larsen lives on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Magma, Orbis, Crannóg, Measure, and American Arts Quarterly, among others. She won the 2011 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition in Poetry in Galway, Ireland; the 2016 Parent-Writer Fellowship in Poetry from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing; the 2017 Luso-American Fellowship for the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. She was a Hawthornden Fellow in Scotland in 2019. Her chapbook Nothing In-Between is available from Barefoot Muse Press.
Susan Jo Russell is a mathematics educator from Somerville, MA. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Chautauqua, Cider Press Review, Comstock Review, EcoTheo Review, Leon, Passager, and elsewhere, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem, “Tree,” won the 2018 Amy Lowell Prize from the New England Poetry Club and “Membrane,” appears in the collection, From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry. She co-directs the Brookline (MA) Poetry Series.
DETAILS
Date: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
VENUE
Old Manse 269 Monument St
Concord, MA 01742 + Google Map
Phone:(978) 369-3909 View Venue Website