2nd Thursday Poetry Reading: Kalogeris, Massey, Schwartz, Walsh

2nd Thursday Poetry Reading with George Kalogeris, Grace Massey, Lloyd Schwartz, Mark Walsh
This free poetry reading at the MAC will have an Open Mic before the featured speakers. Refreshments will be served.

**Please note that with four featured readers we will need to limit the number of speakers at the Open Mic to 10. Signup will be that night before the reading.**

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.

Grace Massey is a poet, classical ballet and Baroque dancer, gardener, and socializer of feral cats. Grace was a social studies editor at Pearson Education for many years and has degrees in English from Smith College and Boston University. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Quartet, Thimble, Lily Poetry Review, One Art, RockPaperPoem, and Ibbetson Street. Her chapbook, A Future with Bromeliads, was a finalist in the Moonstone Arts Center chapbook contest and the Jessie Bryce Niles chapbook contest. A Future with Bromeliads is available from RiverGlassBooks, which contributes the proceeds from sales of their chapbooks to the Artists for Climate Justice Fund. https://www.gracemasseypoet.com

Lloyd Schwartz is poet laureate of Somerville, the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a longtime arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. He’s published five books of poetry, a collection of his music reviews, and has edited three volumes devoted to the works of Elizabeth Bishop. Among his honors are the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Academy of American Poets for his poetry. His poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Poetry, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. His next collection, “Artur Schnabel and Josepf Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4, 1948)” and other poems will appear next year from Arrowsmith Press.

Mark Walsh is an English professor at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, MA, where he teaches literature and philosophy. Recently, he was the head judge of the selection committee for the City of Brockton’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate. He is an associate editor for The Lily Poetry Review, and his journalism has appeared in The South Shore News & The Marshfield Mariner. His Chapbook, In The Garden of Fortune, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in May of 2024. Recent poetry publications include Abandoned Mine, Rituals, Choeofpleirn Press and Nixes Mate.

More info on MAC poetry readings at http://www.hpaa-mac.org/poetry-readings/.