The evening’s featured poets are Jennifer Barber, Fred Marchant, Danielle Legros Georges and George Kalogeris.

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Jennifer Barber is Brookline’s current poet laureate, and co-editor with Jessica Greenbaum and Fred Marchant of Tree Lines: 21st century American poems, forthcoming from Grayson Books in 2022. Her poetry collection The Sliding Boats Our Bodies Made will be available in 2022 from The Word Works.

Danielle Legros Georges’ The Dear Remote Nearness of You was published in 2016 by Barrow Street Press; and her Island Heart, translations of the poems of Ida Faubert, published in 2021 by Subpress Books. The former Boston Poet Laureate, she teaches at Lesley University.

George Kalogeris‘s most recent book of poems is Winthropos (Louisiana State University Press, 2021) and his previous collection, Guide to Greece, was also published by Louisiana State University Press. Kalogeris teaches literature and classics in translation at Suffolk University in Boston.

Fred Marchant is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (Graywolf). He is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford (Graywolf), and the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center in Boston.

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The evening will feature a new audio recording of David Ferry reading.

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About Richard Fein

Richard Fein received both a Master of Arts and a Master of Business Administration before beginning his impressive career in advising and program management. He was the director of Undergraduate Placement at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was the founding director of placement program for over 450 seniors. Fein has written numerous books including 95 Mistakes Job Seekers Make…and How to Avoid Them, 101 Dynamite Questions to Ask at Your Job Interview, 101 Great Jobs and How to Get Them, 111 Dynamite Ways to Ace Your Job Interview, and First Job: A New Grad’s Guide to Launching Your Business Career. In addition to this impressive list of published work, Fein has also been a guest on over 30 television and radio interviews concerning career issues.

About George Kalogeris

George Kalogeris has published three books of poetry, including Guide to Greece. His work has received the James Dickey Poetry Prize and been selected by Christopher Ricks for the anthology Joining Music with Reason. He teaches literature and classics in translation at Suffolk University.

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Free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Poetry Reading Series at BU, and co-sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at the College of General Studies

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize. He teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University.

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