NEPC October Reading at the Old Manse

Mark Pawlak’s book-length memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov was published in fall 2021 by MadHat Press. He is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Reconnaissance (Hanging Loose, 2016), and the editor of six anthologies. His work has been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and has been performed at Teatr Polski in Warsaw. His poems appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Arrowsmith, and Mother Jones, among many others. He teaches mathematics at the UMass Boston.

L.R. Berger will be reading from her new collection of poems, Indebted to Wind (Deerbrook Editions). Her book, The Unexpected Aviary, received the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. With the late Palestinian artist and writer, Kamal Boullatta, she assisted in the translation from the Arabic of Beginnings, by Adonis (Pyramid Atlantic Press). She’s been grateful for support from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN New England, the NH State Council on the Arts, MacDowell, the Blue Mountain Center, and the American Academy in Rome.

Aidan Rooney’s most recent poetry collection is Go There (Madhat Press, 2020). Earlier collections, Day Release (2000) and Tightrope (2007), are published by The Gallery Press. Aidan grew up in Monaghan, Ireland, and has been a teacher and coach since 1988 at Thayer Academy in Massachusetts. Aidan is currently translating Emmelie Prophète’s Les Villages de Dieu (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2020).