Note: this event is now virtual.
I'll be sharing the stage with Kathleen Aguero and there will also be an open mic.
The Brookline Poetry Series is an independent monthly venue housed at the Brookline Public Library Main Branch. In past years we have hosted poets such as Alan Shapiro, Ross Gay, Stephanie Burt, Major Jackson, Fred Marchant, Claudia Rankine, and Rosanna Warren.
We meet the third Sunday of the month, September through May, from 2-4 p.m. The afternoon starts with our invited readers. An open mike closes the event, where some of the best up-and-coming lyric and narrative poets in Boston present their work. We draw a regular audience of 30-50 people, and poets often tell us that we have one of the most attentive audiences they have encountered. It's a serious but warm venue, with a strong sense of commitment to the work and to the community we've built. The Boston Globe has called us "the best literary open mike in Boston."
The Series directors are Ann Killough (winner of PEN New England Award), Aimée Sands (MacDowell Fellow), and Susan Jo Russell (two-time Pushcart nominee).