# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join us at the Costello Center (Amesbury Senior Center) for a reading featuring poets Jessica Purdy and Richard Wollman! Reading will be followed by Q&A and an open mic! Hope to see you there!

When: Thursday, November 20, 2025, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Where: Nicholas J. Costello Transportation Center (Amesbury Senior Center), 68 Elm St., Amesbury, MA 01913

Zoom pre-registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SYrPM7ZFQleshlEX1rRueg
 
Jessica Purdy holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Spiritual Literature, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review, Thimble, About Place, Radar, Gone Lawn, and On the Seawall, among others. She is the author of STARLAND and Sleep in a Strange House which was a NH Literary Award for poetry finalist (Nixes Mate Books). She is the author of the chapbook The Adorable Knife which won the NH Literary People's Choice Award (Grey Book Press) and the chapbook You’re Never the Same: Ekphrastic Poems (Seven Kitchens Press). She lives in Exeter, NH and teaches at SNHU.

Richard Wollman, a poet and sculptor, is the author of Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow), Changeable Gods (Elyse Wolf Prize, Slate Roof Press), and A Cemetery Affair (Finishing Line). His awards include the Gulf Coast Prize and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, and his poems have appeared in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Crazyhorse, Florida Review, MARGIE, and Notre Dame Review. He is Professor Emeritus of Literature & Creative Writing at Simmons University. Poems and artwork may be found at richardwollman.com
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/amesbury/amesbury-monthly-poetry-reading-series-ft-jessica-purdy-and-richard-wollman/200029193603439
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Amesbury
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Nicholas Costello Transportation Center
- **lat**: 42.85768908
- **long**: -70.92783204
- **full address**: Nicholas Costello Transportation Center, Nicholas J. Costello Transportation Center, Amesbury, Amesbury, MA 01913, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman being held?
  - **A:** Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman takes place on Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm at Nicholas Costello Transportation Center, Nicholas J. Costello Transportation Center, Amesbury, Amesbury, MA 01913, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman?
  - **A:** Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman is organized by Amesbury Poet Laureate.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman is ideal for aspiring performers, spoken word artists, budding comedians, and audiences who love discovering raw, unpolished talent in an intimate and supportive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Amesbury, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Series ft. Jessica Purdy & Richard Wollman sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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