This free poetry reading at the MAC will have an Open Mic before the featured speakers. Refreshments will be served.
Melinda Coppola penned her first poem—about the color pink—at the tender age of 8. Her relationship with writing was mercurial for decades, but once she learned that her blood type is, in fact, poet, she settled into a kind of quiet cohabitation with her muses. Melinda’s poetry was nominated for Best of the Net and received the Songs of Eretz Reader’s Choice Award. Her work has appeared in Thimble Literary Magazine, One Art: A Journal of Poetry, Willows Wept Review, Press 53, Mutha Magazine, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Autism Spectrum, and Amethyst Review, among others. Her first full length collection, Little Pockets of Glow, is due out Fall 2025 from Kelsay Books. In addition to writing poetry, she paints, communes with stones on Cape Cod beaches, and teaches Yogabilities™, her own approach to Yoga for individuals with special needs. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, her daughter, and a small herd of cats. www.melindacoppola.com
Jean Dany Joachim, is a poet, fiction-writer, actor and playwright. He has five published collections of poetry and a play, Chen Plenn (2007), Crossroads / Chimenkwaze (2013), Avec des Mots (2014), Quartier (2016), Your Voice Poet / Ta Voix Poète (2017), and La camisa blanca (2024). He created the Many Voices Project, inspiring conversations about race and equality, and he’s director of City Night Readings, a series featuring diverse poetic and artistic talents. He serves on the Boards of the New England Poetry Club, & Jean Appolon Expressions Dance Company.
http://jeandanyjoachim.com
Charlot Lucien is a poet, storyteller, and visual artist. His writings have been published in various anthologies and publications, including the trilingual anthology of Haitian poetry “This Land, My Beloved”, Regard magazine, Liberation Poetry, Compost Magazine, Revolution, Anthologie des poètes français 2022, Poètes à la Une, and Tanbou Magazine. His poetry book La Tentation de l’Autre Rive (The Temptation of Other Shores) was released in 2013 by Trilingual Press. Several of his poems express his grappling with expressions of multiple identities as a Haitian who experienced migration and negotiates multiple literary and linguistic influences from Haiti, France and Africa as a whole. He is also the founder of the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts; he has affiliation with the New England Poetry Club, La société de poètes français, et Poètes à la Une; and in his regular line of work he is a public health manager and a history instructor at the OLLI Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
More info on MAC poetry readings at
http://www.hpaa-mac.org/poetry-readings/.
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