Hybrid Poetry Reading with Kevin Gallagher, Ben Mazer, and Aidan Rooney

** This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom **

** Please sign up ahead of time because there is limited space **

Please join us for our reading with Kevin Gallagher, Ben Mazer, and Aidan Rooney

Registration is required. 

If you wish to sign up for the in-person version of this event please do so here.

Kevin Gallagher

Kevin Gallagher is a poet, editor, and economist living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of three recent books of poetry: Isolate Flecks, Gringo Guadalupe, and Looking for Lake Texcoco. He is a co-founder and editor of Compost magazine, and co-editor of Greatest Hits: Twelve Years of Compost Magazine (Zephyr). He has guest-edited features on Kenneth Rexroth and Denise Levertov for Jacket. He teaches at Boston University and his latest book on political economy is The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization.

Ben Mazer

Born in New York City in 1964. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney and William Alfred, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where his advisors were Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. He is the author of several collections of poems, including White Cities (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995), Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010), January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010), New Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013), The Glass Piano (MadHat Press, 2015), December Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016), February Poems (Ilora Press, 2017), and Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2017). He is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press, 2015), Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010), The Uncollected Delmore Schwartz (Arrowsmith Press, 2019), and Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006), which won the first Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation. Formerly the editor of The Battersea Review, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is co-editor, with Raquel Balboni, of Art and Letters. He is currently editing The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz for Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Aidan Rooney

He was born in 1965 in Monaghan, Ireland, and educated at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, National University of Ireland. A resident of the U.S. since 1987, he lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, and teaches at Thayer Academy. He was awarded the Hennessy Literary  Award for New Irish Poet in 1997, and his collections—Day Release (2000) and Tightrope (2007)—are published by The Gallery Press in Ireland. In 2013, he was awarded the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. Widely published in Europe and North America, his work has appeared in various anthologies, Staying Alive (Bloodaxe) and 180 More (Random House) among these. Go There is Aidan Rooney’s first U.S. book publication.