Please join me for June's poetry reading at the Whittier Home or on Zoom, featuring Ellie O'Leary, Amesbury Poet Laureate Emerita, and Pamela Alexander. Pamela and Ellie are longtime friends, and I am so excited that we will get to hear them read together!
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
In Person: John Greenleaf Whittier Home & Museum, 86 Friend St., Amesbury, MA 01913
Zoom registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zsg67O8pRRulkRukfOrcug
Ellie O'Leary’s writing has been a series of opportunities that include teaching poetry and memoir as well as organizing a writing program at the Pyramid Life Center - an Adirondacks retreat center, hosting a radio show, teaching at the Belfast (Maine) Senior College, curating the Freedom (Maine) Summer Reading Series and earning an MFA in Maine’s Stonecoast program. She grew up in the village of Freedom, Maine, and is now on the Board of Directors of the Freedom Community Historical Society. She’s a resident of Amesbury, Massachusetts, where she serves on the Amesbury Cultural Council and is Poet Laureate Emerita. Ellie is the author of Breathe Here (2020, poetry) and Up Home Again (2023, memoir) both with North Country Press. She’s also the former Education Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. She has always lived in New England, either Maine or Massachusetts, except for one year in Israel.
Pamela Alexander is the author of five collections of poetry, including Left, winner of the Chad Walsh chapbook prize from Beloit Poetry Journal in 2024. Her other books are Slow Fire (Ausable/CopperCanyon, 2007); Inland, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize (1997); Commonwealth of Wings (1991); and Navigable Waterways, which won the Yale prize (1984). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including American Alphabets, The Best American Poetry 2000, The Extraordinary Tide, American Voices, Poetry for a Small Planet, and Cape Discovery, and in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, Plume, and The New Republic.
Hope to see you there! Bring a poem for the open mic!
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