Poetry at the MAC: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 7 – 9 pm Wendy Drexler, Connie Saems, Tzynya Pinchback

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Harvest of What Remains, received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize and was published in February 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. She was awarded the 2025 E. E. Cummings prize from the New England Poetry Club, and served as poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018–2023. https://wendydrexlerpoetry.com/

Connie Saems is a visual artist based in Cambridge and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Her work utilizes the power of language to augment form, transforming letters from poems into continuous lines that reflect her personal responses to the text. Deeply influenced by an interest in communication across cultures, her practice explores how language functions visually as both meaning and structure. https://www.conniesaems.com/

Tzynya Pinchback writes the body in nature, in illness, and in joy as a deliberate act. Her chapbook, How to make pink confetti, was selected for the Dancing Girl Press reading series, and she was awarded a PEN America Emerging Voices fellowship for her in-progress cancer memoir. Tzynya is the 2025 Writing the Land poet-in-residence at D.W. Field Park. Her poetry and essays appear in various print and only publications.