Chapter & Verse Literary Readings

CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES

Friday,  November 8, 2019, 7:30 pm

LORING GREENOUGH HOUSE, 12 SOUTH STREET

George Kalogeris is the author of a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos (Antilever, 2012), and of a book of poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets(Pressed Wafer, 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). His current book of poems is Guide to Greece, (Louisiana State University, 2018). He is the recipient of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. He teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University.

Margo Taft Stever: In 2019, CavanKerry Press published Stever’s book, Cracked Piano, and Kattywompus Press published her chapbook, Ghost Moose. Her other poetry collections are The Lunatic Ball (2015), The Hudson Line, (2012), Frozen Spring (2002), and Reading the Night Sky (1996). Her poems have appeared widely in journals such as Verse Daily, upstreet, Plume, Blackbird, Salamander; “poem-a-day” on poets.org and in numerous anthologies. She co-authored Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia (Zhejiang University Press, 2012 and Orange Frazier Press, 2015). She is the founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and the founding editor of Slapering Hol Press (www.margotaftstever.com).

Crystal Williams has published four collections of poems, most recently Detroit as Barn, finalist for the National Poetry Series, Cleveland State Open Book Prize, and the Maine Book Award. Her third collection, Troubled Tongues, was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award, the Idaho Poetry Prize, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her first two books, Kin and Lunatic, were published by Michigan State University Press in 2000 and 2002. Her work has appeared in many leading magazines, including American Poetry Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems appear in numerous anthologies, including: Angles of Ascent: The Norton Anthology of African American Poetry. She is both Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of English at Boston University.

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.

For more information check our website at http://jamaicapondpoets.com or email dorothy.derifield@gmail.com or call 617-325-8388. The next Chapter and Verse Literary Readings in the 2019/2020 Series will be on Fridays December 13, January 10, February 14, March 13, April 3 and May 8.