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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry at the Library. This poetry 
 series meets in September\, November\, February\, and April. Each event 
 features readings by three prominent\, published poets\, followed by an 
 open mic. All attendees are welcome to participate in the open mic. Sign up 
 for the open mic at the reading\, limit of one short poem per person.\n\n 
 \n\nThis month's featured poets are Quintin Collins\, Matthew E. Henry\, 
 and Tatiana Johnson-Boria.\n\n\n\n \n\nThe poetry series is hosted by 
 Elizabeth Lund\, co-director of Haiku Newton and host of Poetic Lines at 
 NewTV and Bronx TV. Elizabeth also interviews major poets for The Christian 
 Science Monitor. From 2015 through 2019\, she wrote a monthly column about 
 poetry for The Washington Post. \n\n\n\n \n\nAbout the featured 
 poets:\n\nQuintin Collins (he/him) is a writer\, editor\, and associate 
 director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative 
 Writing Program. His work appears in many print and online publications\, 
 such as Sidereal Magazine\, Superstition Review\, Glass: A Journal of 
 Poetry\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, and others. Winner of a Pushcart 
 Prize and the 2019 Atlantis Award from the Poet's Billow\, Quintin's 
 publishing accolades include multiple Best of the Net Nominations\, and he 
 was a finalist for the 2020 Redivider Beacon Street Prize.\n\nQuintin's 
 first full-length collection of poems\, The Dandelion Speaks of Survival\, 
 which was a finalist for the 2020 Alice James Award and the 2021 Sheila 
 Margaret Motton Book Prize\, is available from Cherry Castle Publishing. 
 His second collection of poems\, Claim Tickets for Stolen People\, selected 
 by Marcus Jackson as winner of The Journal's 2020 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry 
 Prize and Honor Book for the Black Caucus of the American Library 
 Association’s 2023 Best Poetry Literary Award\, is available from Ohio 
 State University Press/Mad Creek Books.\n\n\n\n \n\nMatthew E. Henry (MEH) 
 is an educator\, essayist\, and the author of the forthcoming poetry 
 collection Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books\, 2026). His previous 
 collections include the Colored page (Sundress Publications\, 2022)\, The 
 Third Renunciation (New York Quarterly Books\, 2023)\, and said the Frog to 
 the scorpion (Harbor Editions\, 2024)\, as well as the chapbooks Teaching 
 While Black (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Dust &Ashes (Califorinos Press\, 
 2020)\, and Have you heard the one about…? (Ghost City Press\, 2023). 
 He’s editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and nonfiction editor at 
 Porcupine Literary. MEH’s poetry and prose has appeared in ASP Bulletin\, 
 Barren Magazine\, The Florida Review\, Had\, Lily Poetry\, Massachusetts 
 Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Ninth Letter\, Nixes Mate\, Pangyrus\, The 
 Pedestal Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Redivider\, Stone Circle Review\, 
 Terrain\, Whale Road Review\, The and Worcester Review. MEH earned an MFA 
 yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology 
 and a PhD in education. He writes about education\, race\, religion\, and 
 burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com.\n\n\n\n 
 \n\nTatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy 
 (2023)\, winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an 
 educator\, artist\, facilitator\, and mother\; she uses her writing 
 practice to dismantle racism\, reckon with trauma\, cultivate healing\, and 
 to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and 
 awards from Tin House\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, MacDowell\, 
 the Brother Thomas Fellowship\, and St. Botolph Club Foundation\, among 
 others. Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee\, teaches at GrubStreet\, 
 and has been on faculty at Emerson College\, among other institutions. Her 
 work appears or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets\, 
 Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, and more. She is represented by Lauren 
 Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.
LOCATION:Druker Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Lily Weitzman":MAILTO:lweitzman.ntn@minlib.net
CATEGORIES:Talks & Presentations
CONTACT;CN="Lily Weitzman":MAILTO:lweitzman.ntn@minlib.net
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