CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm

LORING-GREENOUGH HOUSE, 12 SOUTH STREET

JAMAICA PLAIN CENTER

Joshua Coben is the author of Maker of Shadows (Texas Review Press, 2010), which won the 2009 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, College English, The Evansville Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and other journals. Born and raised in St. Louis, he studied and taught for two years in France before moving to the Boston area, where he teaches fifth grade. He lives in Dedham with his wife and three children.

Jennifer Markell’s first book of poetry, Samsara, was published this April by the Turning Point imprint of WordTech Communications. She is the author of an award-winning chapbook, Leaving the Green Elm Market. Her poetry has appeared in journals nationally and internationally, including The Aurorean (Featured Poet),Consequence, The Hawaii Pacific Review, Rhino, and Poetry from Sojourner, A Feminist Anthology. Her work has been displayed at Boston City Hall, and she was selected to read her work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for their Valentine’s Day celebration “The Fine Art of Love, Lust, and Laughter.” Jennifer works as a psychotherapist with a special interest in therapeutic uses of writing.

Elizabeth Quinlan, author of Promise Supermarket (Ibbetson Street Press), is a poet and visual artist and a graduate of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She has taught art to all ages, as well as designing and teaching art workshops specializing in the handmade book arts and  fabric art. She received an Honor in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Boston and has been a member of the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences for fifteen years. She is presently working on a collection of poems based on the life of Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1936) the eminent scholar of African American music—pianist, composer, biographer, playwright and community organizer in the arts.

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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