Andrea Cohen’s collections include Unfathoming (Four Way Books, 2017), Furs Not Mine (Four Way, 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Long Division (Salmon Poetry, 2009), and The Cartographer’s Vacation (Owl Creek Press, 1999). Her new book, Nightshade will appear this year from Four Way Books. …both gut-wrenching and paradoxically delightful about her work is the element of surprise; the poems feel […]
Ellen Doré Watson previous director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and named one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century” by the Library Journal has written five books of poetry and many translations from Portuguese. Robert Pinsky described her work as “interrogative, tender, wildly inventive.” Gerald Stern echoed, writing “The poems are wild, […]
It’s almost time to come together for the second year, to hear about 15 favorite poems presented by members of the community. To submit your favorite poem, download the submission form now to get started. Choose a poem (not one written by you or a family member, that’s the only rule,) and talk about its […]
Online Admission is free Zoom event hosted by Toadstool Books Books can be purchased at www.toadbooks.com To register for the Loomzoom event visit http://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom. A Zoom link will be sent out to The Loom email list. If you want to add your name, please email rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. Download PDF of Event Flyer Jennifer Militello About A Camouflage of […]
Hot off the Press, three poets with brand-new books from Four Way Books, Co-hosted by Toadstool Books For more information on the Loom, contact rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. Visit http://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom to register for the LoomZoom event. Kevin Prufer, The Art of Fiction In this his eighth collection of poetry, Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and for recording the […]
Hot off the Press, three poets with brand-new books from Four Way Books Zoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books https://www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom For more information on the Loom, contact rebeccagibson55@gmail.com. Kevin Prufer, The Art of Fiction In this his eighth collection of poetry, Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced […]
April 11, 2021, 4:30 pm Special Loom(Zoom) Event! Online Admission is free Zoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books www.toadbooks.com/loomzoom To attend this event, please pre-register now. More information on registering can be found on the Toadstool Books website. Major Jackson “At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable (fifth book of poems), The Absurd Man… Jackson observes wryly, […]
Nov. 7, 2021, 4:30 pm Loom(Zoom) Event! Zoom co-hosted by Toadstool Books https://www.toadbooks.com/event For more information contact: Rebecca K. Gibson, founder, The Loom Rebeccagibson55@gmail.com Andrea Cohen ––“The poems in Everything are so short and sharply formed, and so individually memorable, that one is caught off guard by their cumulative force. This is a work of […]
Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, NH The April 2022 poet will be our own Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, whose new book, Girl as Birch will come out in early April. We are arranging a festive event, probably at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, NH. She’ll be reading from the new book and in conversation with the Executive […]
The next Favorite Poem Project is planned for summer, 2022, somewhere beautiful in Harrisville. We are featuring people from Harrisville and surrounding villages, plus Keene - to submit a favorite poem by some well-published poet, (not yourself) with a statement about why that poem is particularly important to YOU. We’ll prioritize people who’ve not yet […]
Sunday, September 18 at 4:30PM We'll gather again to hear some of each others' most beloved poems read and treasured by friends and neighbors. We'll meet at the recently renovated "Brick Church" aka: The Harrisville Community Church 13 Canal Street Harrisville, NH 03450
November 13, 2022 Meg Kearney, author, most recently, of All Morning the Crows will read with Richard Smith, author of Not a Soul but Us winner of the 2021May Sarton Prize (judged by Meg) More information coming soon.
Katie Farris is the author of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, Alice James Books, 2023 and A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award.She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), […]
Derry Author Fest “What Isn’t Mentioned but Lurks” (2pm- 2:45) In The Promise of a Normal Life Contact: erinr@derrypl.org 603 432-6140
Weaving You Into the Poems you Read A Poetry Playdate at… The Harrisville Library Saturday, April 20 at 11:00 am You may be surprised at the variety of ways you notice and appreciate design.
The Loom celebrates its 5th year of bringing today’s best poets to the charming mill town of Harrisville NH, welcoming poets Rosa Lane with a brand-new book, Called Back, and Jeffrey Levine, At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered, to read and discuss their work. Praise for Rosa Lane The main conceit is to imagine, […]
Coming in May. Date to be determined. Contact: John Knight, jmccknight@gmail.com
May 15 6:30-8:30 “Tiny Store Event” With Tin Fogdall Harrisville General Store 29 Church Street Harrisville, NH 03450 Contact: John Knight jmccknight@gmail.com
The Loom celebrates its 5th year of bringing today’s best poets to the charming mill town of Harrisville, NH, welcoming two New Hampshire poets, Alice B. Fogel, former NH Poet Laureate with a brand new book Falsework, and Meg Kearney, All Morning the Crows. Praise for Alice B. Fogel’s work “The marvelous specificities of her […]