POETRY READING at The Library

POETRY READING Featuring Amy Alvarez and Linda Carney-Goodrich

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar (2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology(2023). Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Foundation, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, the Virginia Creative Arts Center, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Amy was born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents. She has taught at high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, and at West Virginia University. She currently teaches at Boston College.
https://amymalvarez.com/

Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her first book of poetry, Dot Girl(Nixes Mate Books, 2024) was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall and have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Literary Mama, Muddy River, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Gyroscope Review, among others. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and owner of Home Scholars of Boston.
https://lindacarneygoodrich.com/

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