

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading with Gloria Monaghan, Robbie Gamble, Mario Malivert
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This free poetry reading at the MAC will have an Open Mic before the featured speakers. Space is limited at the Open Mic, signup will start at 645 pm. Refreshments will be served. Series is coordinated by Linda Carney-Goodrich.

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry. Her recent book, Diary of Saint Marion, Lily Poetry Review, (2025) was featured at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (2025, AWP). Her poems have appeared in Nixes Mate, NPR, Poem-a-Day, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Griffin Prize. She has also been nominated for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club. Thanks to a Bistline Grant from Wentworth Institute, she recently completed a film on the painter, Nancy Ellen Craig, Daughter of Rubens, which was accepted into the 2023 Provincetown Film Festival. She is currently working on another film about the Dominican painter, Jose Ricon Mora due out in 2026.

Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in On the Seawall, Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie worked for many years as a nurse practitioner caring for people caught in homelessness. He is the poetry editor for Solstice Literary Magazine, and he divides his time between Boston and an apple orchard in Vermont.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mario Malivert is the author of four collections of poetry, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Most of his writings describe the struggle of his country of origin entangled in a cycle of political corruption and instability. His poems and short stories had appeared in various magazines and anthologies. He is also a freelance book reviewer and art critic at Le Nouvelliste, Haiti’s largest newspaper. His most recent book, Lasting Consequences, published in July 2025, is a collection of eight short stories. He currently lives in Stoughton, MA.

More info on MAC poetry readings at http://www.hpaa-mac.org/poetry-readings/.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, entertainment, workshops, festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Hyde Park
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Menino Arts Center
- **lat**: 42.25732
- **long**: -71.1213099
- **full address**: Menino Arts Center, 26 Central Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136-2946, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Menino Arts Center, 26 Central Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136-2946, United States
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  - **A:** Menino Arts Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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