Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary: A Tribute to Amy Lowell at All She Wrote Books

Getting There: 3 min walk from the East Somerville Green Line T stop, 14 min walk from the Sullivan Square Orange line T stop.

Kentucky native CD Collins follows the storytelling traditions of the South, both as a solo artist and when accompanied by musicians. Collins was named the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Malden, Massachusetts and has been selected as a Red-Letter Poet by Steven Ratiner. Collins is the author of Blue Land, a collection of short stories (First Trade Edition, Polyho Press); a poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Severed Head (Ibbetson Street Press); and the novel Afterheat (Empty City Press). She has appeared at Berklee College of Music, the Boston Public Library, Boston’s ICA, the New York Public Library, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Melissa Nilles is a musician, composer, writer, poet, expressive arts therapist, and licensed mental health counselor living in Somerville, MA with her partner and the extraordinary Siberian cat Prince Siddhartha. Nilles is the owner of a small private psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy practice in Somerville serving creative people going through life/career transitions, LGBTQ+ individuals, or people with ADHD, anxiety, or trauma. She is the frontwoman (lead vocalist, lyricist, and keyboardist) of Boston-based band Ruby Grove (2022- now), which is a New England Music Award-nominated multi-genre indie alternative musical project inspired by trip-hop, soul, indietronica, and indie rock.

D Donna (they/any) has spent the last five years basking in the warm light of Boston’s queer, trans, and poet communities. They have not, in all that time, figured out how to write an introductory bio. But they love reading poems, and they love all of you, and that’ll be enough for now.