Poetry at the Library Series Winter 2024
The Spring 2023 Poetry at the Library Series presents three programs, each featuring readings by two award-winning Massachusetts-based authors, followed by a Q & A session about their inspirations and craft, book signings and light refreshments. Each event begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum.
Register and learn more about the May and June poets by clicking on its hyperlinked date.
On May 7, Jordan Escobar reads from Men with the Throats of Birds (2023 CutBank Press Chapbook Award), poems of the hardscrabble outdoors workers in the loam and rock of earth. He divides his time teaching at Emerson College and Babson College and working as a professional beekeeper. Adam Scheffler reads from Heartworm (Moon City Press’s Poetry Award), humorous and wise poems that praise the mundane world as a source of wonder and spirituality. His poems have been featured on PBS’ Poetry in America. He teaches in the Harvard College Writing Program.
On June 3, Mikko Harvey reads from Let the World Have You – poems that confront the challenges of human intimacy through a cast of surprising non-human characters. Nina MacLaughlin, captures the moods of the sky and her own body’s connections to the firmament through her lyric work in The Paris Review Daily and Summer Solstice: An Essay.”
The Poetry at the Library Series is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
