Medford Historical Society & Museum: Denise Bergman, Kevin Gallagher, Max Heinegg, Scott Ruescher

Join Medford High School English teacher and poet Max Heinegg and three other New England Poetry Club poets for a night of poetry and song. Please note that seating is limited: register here for free tickets.

Max Heinegg is the author of Going There (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023) and Good Harbor (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), winner of the Paul Nemser Poetry Prize. He has won the Sidney Lanier Poetry Award, the Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize, and his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Max will perform some classic poems (from Keats to Frost) that he adapted into song, giving a brief talk about each poem and the way in which a great lyric can be read or sung.

Denise Bergman is the author of five poetry books. The Shape of the Keyhole is about a woman falsely accused and hanged for murder. Three Hands None unravels assault and its aftermath. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea dismantles the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty. The Telling unfolds a child refugee’s lifelong secret. Seeing Annie Sullivan explores the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher.

Kevin Gallagher, a poet, publisher, and political economist living in Greater Boston, will present poems from his recent books And Yet it Moves and The Wild Goose.  Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics.

Scott Ruescher is the author of Waiting for the Light to Change (Prolific Press, 2017) and Above the Fold (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming). His recent poems appear in About Place, Ohio Today, Pangyrus, and the Common Ground, Latin-American Literary, and Naugatuck River reviews.