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

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Books will be available for purchase at the event.
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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Register for the event!

RSVP to let us know you’re coming! RSVPs don’t guarantee a seat, but you’ll be alerted to important details about the program, including safety requirements, cancellations, and book signing updates.

Reserve a book!

Copies of Jennifer Barber’s collection Works on Paper will be available for purchase at the event, but you can ensure that you get a copy by preordering on the registration page. You can pick your book up after 6:30PM on the day of the event.

Can’t make it to the event? Preorder the book on the registration page to have it signed, and choose to have it held or shipped from the store!

More About the Poets

Jennifer Barber’s new collection, forthcoming from The Word Works in 2022, is The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made. She is the current Poet Laureate of Brookline.

Judith Steinbergh, author of five collections of poetry, has taught poetry to students of all ages. She was chosen as the first Poet Laureate of Brookline and served from 2012 to 2014.

Jan Schreiber was Poet Laureate of Brookline from 2015 to 2017. His most recent poetry books are Peccadilloes and Bay Leaves, and his translations, The Poems of Paul Valéry, came out in a paperback bilingual edition in September.

Zvi A. Sesling was Poet Laureate of Brookline from 2017 to 2020. He has published numerous poems and flash fiction. He edits Muddy River Poetry Review.

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