April 2019
Favorite Poem Event
The Favorite Poem Project, conceived of by Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, is a gathering of individuals to share their favorite poems with each other, revealing personal ties to specific poems. The Loom’s Favorite Poem Event is a time to come together to hear poems presented by members of the Harrisville community and neighbors
Find out more »May 2019
Andrea Cohen & Maggie Dietz
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 effortless to the reader…The brevity of these poems allows the reader to devour them quickly, only to pause and then go back, and then go…
Find out more »November 2019
Ellen Doré Watson & George Kalogeris
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, delirious…yet the (smart) organizing principle is this mind, ever alert, choosing and sorting.” Her most recent book is pray me stay eager (Alice James Books,…
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