NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Carla Panciera and Julia Thacker

The NEPC continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan, the Arlington, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Carla Panciera and Julia Thacker, with introductions by Steve Rapp.

The event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue.

Open-mic reading slots are on a first-come, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry!

Carla Panciera’s poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner One of the Cimalores, Bordighera Press Award Winner No Day, No Dusk, No Love and most recently, One Trail of Longing, Another of String (also Bordighera). Her short story collection, Bewildered, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her book Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir, was released in 2023 by Loom Press.

Julia Thacker’s debut collection To Wildness was selected by Paul Muldoon for the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and published by The Waywiser Press in 2025. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including AGNI, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review and The New Republic. A portfolio of her work, The Empress of Serifs, won the 2019 Winter Chapbook award from Poetry International. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute. In 2024, she was an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount. Julia has taught writing at Tufts University, in the Radcliffe Seminars and as a poet-in-residence in public schools throughout the state. She lives in Arlington.