CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES

FRIDAY, May 13, 2016 at 7:30 pm

 LORING-GREENOUGH HOUSE, 12 SOUTH STREET

JAMAICA PLAIN CENTER

Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor (www.meredithbergmann.com) and poet. Her unique public art commissions, including the Boston Women’s Memorial on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, are located many places. She is currently creating the FDR Hope Memorial for Roosevelt Island, New York City. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Light, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, The Same, Think, The Tri Quarterly Review, the anthology Hot Sonnets, and numerous online journals. Her chapbook “A Special Education” was recently published by EXOT Books. She is poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly and its website at www.nccsc.net.

Sharon Dunn

 has published two books of poetry, Refugees in the Garden and My Brother and I. For ten years she was the editor/publisher of the literary magazine AGNI, now housed at Boston University. Her memoir, Little History of Love, will be published by Texas Tech University Press in 2017. She lives in Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod.

Danielle Legros-Georges, the current Poet Laureate of the City of Boston, is a professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University. She also teaches in the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences summer Writer’s Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poems have been widely anthologized, and recent essays of hers have appeared in Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences and Writing in America (ed. Abayomi Animashaun) and Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (eds. Kendahl Radcliffe and Jennifer Scott). She is the author of two volumes of poems: Maroon, and The Dear Remote Nearness of You.

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 ample 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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