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2nd Thursday Poetry Readings at the MAC
December 12, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 7 – 9 pm
Featuring Kevin Gallagher, Magdalena Gomez, and Vijaya Sundaram
Kevin Gallagher is a poet, publisher and political economist living in the Greater Boston Area. His latest books are And Yet it Moves and The Wild Goose. Gallagher edits, spoKe, a boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University.
Magdalena Gómez, Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA (2019-2022) and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2021-2022) has been a cultural worker since 1976. Her memoir noir, Mi’ja, received the 2024 International Latino Book Award, in the autobiography category. In 2019 she received the Latinas 50 Plus Literature Award at Fordham University and the Latinx Excellence on the Hill Award from the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus of MA at the State House. Her solo play on iconoclastic Puerto Rican labor leader, activist, feminist and journalist Luisa Capetillo, (October 28, 1879 – April 10, 1922) is included in The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance (2024). Ms. Gómez has been a volunteer writer for An African American Point of View for over fourteen years. She was the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Springfield’s first intergenerational Latinx theater, Teatro V!da and the youth open mic series, Ign!te the M!c – from 2006 – 2020. She also initiated and helped launch the first public LGBTQIA2S+ open mic series in Western Massachusetts at the Bing Arts Center. She is currently working on the sequel to her memoir, a new collection of poetry, and a new multi-media solo show based on her memoir. Ms. Gómez is currently a Commissioner with the Massachusetts Commission in the Status of Women for Hampden County and a Trustee with the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. www.mijamemoir.com
Vijaya Sundaram is the current Poet Laureate (2023-2025) for the City of Medford, Massachusetts. Originally from India, she lived in Arlington, MA, for ten years, and has been living in Medford since 2001. She has written short stories, plays and a short novel (not yet published). She is also a guitarist, sitarist, songwriter, singer, amateur digital artist, and educator. Her poetry and short pieces have appeared in publications like The Rising Phoenix Press, the Stardust Review, and TELL Magazine, among others. Her first collection of poems titled Fractured Lens was published in 2023 by Červená Barva Press. https://www.medfordma.org/mayors-office/poet-laureate
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