To Join
When: Jan 9, 2022 03:00 PM ET. You must register in advance for this event:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Format
Our new poetry & open mic opens with our featured readers. This will be followed by Q & A and an open mic. To read at the open mic, sign-up in Zoom chat at beginning of event (limit 1 page/1 poem).
Readers
Thomas DeFreitas [de-FRAY-tus] was born in Boston. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and attended the University of Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in Dappled Things, Ibbetson Street, Pensive, Soul-Lit, and elsewhere. In the summer of 2019, his sonnet “Detox” was chosen as an Award Poem by the editors of Plainsongs. Thomas’s first chapbook, Winter in Halifax, was published in October 2021 by Kelsay Books. It can be purchased here: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/winter-in-halifax
Dorothy Derifield is the co-director of the literary reading series Chapter and Verse in Jamaica Plain and is a member of the committee that directs the Rozzie Reads poetry reading series in Roslindale. She is the author of the book Zero Plus Time (Cherry Grove, 2020) and a chapbook, The River and the Lakes. She won an Editor’s Award from Plainsongs and has appeared in the Radcliffe Quarterly. She is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets and lives in Roslindale.
Zero Plus Time can be purchased on Dorothy’s website.
Moira Linehan is the author of four collections of poetry. Her first two, If No Moon (2007) and Incarnate Grace (2015), were published by Southern Illinois University Press. In 2020 Slant Books brought out Toward and Dos Madres Press published & Company. She lives in Reading, MA.
To purchase any of Moira Linehan’s books, go to her website at www.moiralinehan.com