Fruitlands: Ann Bookman, Mary Beth Hines, Alfred Nicol

Reading as part of New England Poetry Club’s reading series at Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Mass.

Left to right: Alfred Nicol, Mary Beth Hines, Ann Bookman

Ann Bookman, a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, has published poems in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Larcom Review, Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Chronogram, and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. In 2012, she published a chapbook, Point of Attachment, with Finishing Line Press. Her first full collection, Blood Lines, was published by Kelsay Books in the spring of 2022. After a 40-year career in academia, she is currently a Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Writers Center. For more information about her work, please visit her website: annbookman.com

Mary Beth Hines grew up in Massachusetts where she spent Saturday afternoons falling in love with stories and poems in the Waltham Public Library. A graduate of The College of the Holy Cross, she also studied for a year at Durham University in England. Following a career in public service (Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts), she began a regular creative writing practice. She is an award-winning poet, an alumna of the Colrain Manuscript Conference, and recently completed an “Assets for Artists” residency at Mass MoCA with the Boiler House Poets Collective. Kelsay Books published her debut collection, Winter at a Summer House, in November 2021. Her poetry appears in Crab Orchard Review, SWWIM, Tar River, Valparaiso, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.marybethhines.com.

Alfred Nicol’s translation of One Hundred Visions of War by Julien Vocance, published in November 2022, has been called “an essential addition to the history of modernist poetry.” Nicol was the recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light. His other publications include Animal Psalms and Elegy for Everyone, and his poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse, Commonweal, The Formalist, The Hopkins Review, Presence and The Best American Poetry 2018. The New England Poetry Club chose Nicol for its 2006 Daniel Varoujan Award and its 2005 Firman Houghton Award.

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