Chapter and Verse Literary Reading series will be held again on Friday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain Center. The following will be the night’s activities.
Hilary Sallick is the author of a chapbook, Winter Roses, and a full-length collection, Asking the Form, soon to appear from Červená Barva Press. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Exposition Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Bookends Review, Ibbetson Street, The Inflectionist Review, and other publications. She teaches reading and writing to adult learners in Somerville, and she is vice president of the New England Poetry Club.
Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University and an editor at large of the Kenyon Review. Her poetry collections are Hard Child and No Object, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Somerville.
Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collection Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). She is the translator of several books of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy, including adagio ma non troppo by Ryoko Sekiguchi (Les Figues, 2018) and The Next Loves by Stéphane Bouquet, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in the fall. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina and teaches at Furman 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 [email protected] or call 617-325-8388. The last Chapter and Verse Literary Reading in the 2018/2019 Series on Friday, May 10, 2019, will be a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the series. The Jamaica Pond Poets will read their poems relating to poetry itself.