2nd Thursday Poetry Reading

Featuring Shanta Lee Honeycutt, Deborah Leipziger, Lynne Viti

Thursday, June 11, 7 – 9 pm

In person at the MAC. With Open Mic before the featured readers.

Shanta Lee Honeycutt is an award-winning visual artist, writer across genres, author, and scholar who is a practitioner of entanglement for all of the things she brings together in her work. Her written and visual work has been widely featured in Visual Poetry Journal, the Edinburgh University Press journal, CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, thePoetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Her latest 5th book, Do Words Dream Themselves Into Silence Told In Riddles? (Harbor Editions), is a hybrid collection of prose, poetry, and visual elements that explores themes of the uncanny, psychological unrest, and the blurring of reality with dreams, and other things unseen with the help of a trickster enti-ty. To learn more, visit: Shantalee.com.

Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil, Deborah’s poems have been published in ten countries in such journals as Salamander, Pensive and The Bombay Literary Review. Her second poetry collection, Tell Me, is available from Lily Poetry Review Books. She is the author of several books on human rights and sustainability. Deborah developed The Lexicon of Change, which shares the language that we need for social and ecological transformation. Her work appears in numerous anthologies including The Nature of Our Times and Tree Lines. She is inspired by forests and rivers.

Lynne Viti is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). A faculty emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College, she facilitates a Poets in the Schools project in Westwood, Massachusetts, leads a poetry workshop for adults, and serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club. She was the inaugural poet laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts from March 2023 to May 2025.