2nd Thursday Poetry Readings: Featuring M.P. Carver, Jennifer Jean

Featuring M.P. Carver and Jennifer Jean

M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, a member of the Thursday Poets, and teaches writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in SWIMM, Rattle, and Mantis, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem “In Vitro” was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review’s Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022, her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and a chapbook with Lily Poetry Review Books, Hard Up, is available now from Lily Poetry Review Books.

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ, Object Lesson, and The Fool. Her resource book is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. Along with Iraqi poet Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, she’s co-written and co-translated a correspondence in Arabic and English poems, titled Where do you live? أين‭ ‬تعيشين؟. (Arrowsmith, 2025). As well, she’s the editor of Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women (Tupelo, 2026). Her work appears in POETRY, Rattle, On the Seawall, The Common, and the Los Angeles Review; as well as on The Slowdown Podcast and in the Academy of American Poets “Poem-a-Day” series. She’s received honors from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Women’s Federation for World Peace. Jennifer is an organizer for the Her Story Is collective, a faculty member at the Solstice MFA, and a senior program manager at the Fine Arts Work Center.

In person at the MAC.
All readings are free and open to the public with an Open Mic before the featured speakers.
Space is limited at the Open Mic, signup starts at 645 pm the night of the reading.
Series Coordinated by Linda Carney-Goodrich:
poetry@hpaa-mac.org – https://lindacarneygoodrich.com
Series Hosted by Toni Bee: https://tonibee.org