CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES

FRIDAY, March 11, 2016 at 7:30 pm

LORING-GREENOUGH HOUSE, 12 SOUTH STREET

JAMAICA PLAIN CENTER

Preston Hood is a former Navy SEAL and the author of two books of poetry: A Chill I Understand (2006), and The Hallelujah of Listening (2011). He was the receipent of the (2012) Maine Literary Award, Poetry. Preston is widely published in numerous journals and anthologies including Michigan Quarterly Review and Prairie Schooner. He is a retired teacher and administrator, stone mason and carpenter, and has conducted therapeutic writing workshops for veterans and their families. Preston holds a BA from UMass Boston and an MA from University of Maine. He was awarded a residency through Heinrich Boll Association in Ireland to complete his first collection.

Nina MacLaughlin worked for about eight years at the Boston Phoenix, the award-winning alternative newsweekly. In 2008, she quit her journalism job to work as a carpenter’s assistant. Her experience leaving her desk job to learn the carpentry trade is the subject of her first book, Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, and she continues to pursue both building and writing. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Believer, the Boston Globe, the Rumpus, the Millions, Bookslut, and many other places. She lives near the Charles River in Cambridge.

Carla Schwartz is a poet, filmmaker, photographer, and lyricist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fulcrum, Common Ground Review, Cactus Heart, Naugatuck River Review, Solstice Magazine and Ibbetson Street, among others. Her book, Mother, One More Thing was published by Turning Point Books (2014). Her poem, “In Defense of Peaches,” was a Massachusetts Poetry Festival Poem of the Moment. Her poem, “Late for Dinner,” was a semi-finalist for the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest. Her YouTube videos have had hundreds of thousands of views. Carla is also a professional writer with a doctoral degree from Princeton University. Learn more at carlapoet.com.

Suggested donation: $5.00 or whatever you can afford. (We mean this. We would rather have you than your money.) Free refreshments are served.

Parking Information: The Loring-Greenough House has a parking lot, but four spaces are reserved for ZIP Cars. Please respect these spaces, and also please try not to park on the grass. There is nonrestricted street parking and a large, free public parking lot off Centre Street between Burroughs and Thomas Streets just a block from the Loring-Greenough House.

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