# Event Details - **Event Name**: An afternoon of supernatural ballads and songs by HELEN ADAM Introduced by Kristin Prevallet - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: An afternoon of supernatural ballads and songs by HELEN ADAM Introduced by Kristin Prevallet and featuring interpretations by Elizabeth Young, Jennifer Badot, John Mulrooney, Michael O'Leary, Jim Dunn, K Prevallet, and Amanda Cook. Join Us ! for a celebration of the world of Helen Adam: Grand Poet & key member of The San Francisco Renaissance. Unique, deeply traditional profoundly avante guarde, championed by Robert Duncan and a host of others: Beloved. If you know Adam's work this is will be a lovely way to remember and celebrate: If Helen Adam is new to you it will offer a marvelous introduction. ON THE WALLS: JENNY GRASSL -WOODCUTS- bios & details below" LOCATION AND OTHER DETAILS: The Press Room 90 Oxford St.****Somerville. 02143 NOT CAMBRIDGE!!!!! google keeps sending people to Cambridge for some reason****** All are welcome $5.00 donation requested {the Press Room is located down the drive, behind the house.} Parking is non permit on Highland on weekdays and open everywhere on Sundays no permit or coins necessary!. We are now a brief walk from the Green line (Tufts/Medford Gillman Station) a 25 min. walk from Harvard Sq or Davis Sq. Buss run from Davis and Lechmere,[88]:get off at Central Street: Central Sq. and Rindge Ave [Alewife] {83}...Get off at Central & Somerville Ave and walk up Central to Oxford. Oxford Street is near the junction of Central and Highland. From Highland walk toward Harvard Sq. on Central and turn left onto Oxford. We are three houses off Central. We will be open for guests starting at 3:30pm.... reading will start at 4ish. As always Books by many of the authors are available at The Grolier Bookshop in Harvard Square and The Highland Kitchen is a short 3min walk & has a grand bar and food offered up with great service. BIOS: K (Kristin) Prevallet is a poet and former professor of literature and creative writing at The New School and Bard College who is currently co-director of the T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, MA. Prevallet archived Helen Adam's papers for the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo and edited A Helen Adam Reader for The National Poetry Foundation (2007). Her most recent book is A Varied and Tender Multiplicity: A Materia Medica of Poems, Plants, and Spells (Station Hill Press.) Recent work appears in The Body in Language (Counterpath Press) and Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press.) Jennifer Badot is the author of A Violet, A Jennifer (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022). Her poems and book reviews have appeared in Studia Mystica, The Ekphrastic Review, The Boston Globe, Lily Poetry Review, the Poetry is Bread Anthology (edited by Tina Cane), and elsewhere in the glorious vastness. Jim Dunn is the author of Angry Bull’s Cadence(The Bodily Press, 2025), This Silence is a Junkyard (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and Insects in Sex (Fallen Angel Press, 1995). His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Bright Pink Mosquito, The Process, eoagh, Gerry Mulligan, Café Review, Meanie, and the anthology tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. He recently edited the poems of Charley Shively, I Have a Poem for You with Erik Lomen for Bootstrap Press. He lives on the North Shore of Boston. Elizabeth Marie Young, a Boston-based poet and educator, is the author of Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, which won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books and Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome, a book about the ancient Roman understanding of lyric translation and literary creativity. A forthcoming book of list poems is scheduled for release by Subpress in early 2026 Michael O’Leary A resident of Cape Ann for thirty five years, Michael O’Leary is a song-searcher and singer of traditional and contemporary Celtic and Maritime songs and strives to share their historical and cultural background. He has set the poetry of Cape Ann quarry workers to music and is now doing the same with the works of fishermen. His Fisherman’s Ballads project works with the 1874 Gloucester publication 'Fishermen's Ballads and Songs of the Sea', a collection of 120 pieces by a wide array of authors, including many who were local. He invites you to come along next summer on one of the Celtic Music Sunset Sails he hosts on schooner Ardelle every Sunday from Memorial Day weekend through end of September. John Mulrooney is a poet, filmmaker and musician. He is the author of Spooky Action from Dos Madres Press and co-producer of the award-winning documentary The Peacemaker, from Central Square Films. He is active in a number of musical projects including Rusty Doves. He serves as poetry editor for the Arts Fuse and Boog City. He is Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. JENNY GRASSL is a poet and visual artist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Ocean State Review, , The Boston Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bennington Review, Lana Turner Journal, Inverted Syntax, Massachusetts Review, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She was a runner-up in The Boston Review Annual Contest, judged by Mary Jo Bang. She has a finalist complex, but finally was chosen by 3: A Taos Press, where her new collection Magicholia was published in August 2024. Previous reader Bios for Fall 2025: KEVIN MCLELLAN is the author of: Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry); in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology; Tributary; Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. He has recent or forthcoming poems in the Harvard Review, Bennington Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and several others. Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including the Berlin Short Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival where "Dick" won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts PATRICK PRITCHETT is the author of six book-length collections of poetry, including Sunderland (2023), Refrain Series (2020), Orphic Noise (2017), and SONG X (2014). His poems have appeared in Hambone, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Colorado Review, and Talisman among others. Poems have been anthologized in The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral Poetry, Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, and For One Boston. An Anthology for the Victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing. His critical study, Make It Broken: Toward a Poetics of Late Modernism, was published in 2024 by Black Square Editions. . CHRISTINA DAVIS is the author of two books of poetry An Ethic (Nightboat) and Forth A Raven (Alice James Books) and is currently at work on a collection called The Small Evers. Her poems have appeared in such journals as APR, Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, Interim, New Republic, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Peripheries, Poetry Magazine, and Spoke. Her collaboration "The Intrabody," with sculptor Gabriel Sobin, was shown at the Dora Maar House, France, and her Walden-inspired collaboration with environmental sound-artist Jacek Smolicki ("Discord, MA") was recently presented in Sweden. She is the curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room. DAVID RICH writes poems, plays and prose, and lives on the edge of the Great Salt Marsh. He edited Charles Olson: Letters Home, 1949 - 1969, for the Cape Ann Museum, and his writing has appeared in many small-press magazines. STEVE LUTTRELL was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine , where he formerly served as Poet Laureate of the city. He is the founder and publisher of THE CAFE REVIEW . Maines oldest Quarterly Poetry journal. His new book, PAPER BOATS is his sixth collection of poems. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/somerville/an-afternoon-of-supernatural-ballads-and-songs-by-helen-adam-introduced-by-kristin-prevallet/200029133945042 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, festivals, music, contests, sports, nonprofit, marathons, live-music, lgbt-pride - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 26 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029133945042?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=somerville-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Somerville - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Press Room 90 Oxford St Somerville Ma - **lat**: 42.38701 - **long**: -71.1015 - **full address**: The Press Room 90 Oxford St Somerville Ma, 55 Oxford St, Somerville, MA 02143-1617, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: An afternoon of supernatural ballads and songs by HELEN ADAM Introduced by Kristin Prevallet - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/7e6996b71ad7017d36b6534cc9c8997ec80a12b13ea482cd0e3d96c99356894d-rimg-w1200-h1855-dcffffff-gmir?v=1762677582 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is An afternoon of supernatural ballads and songs by HELEN ADAM Introduced by Kristin Prevallet being held? - **A:** An afternoon of supernatural ballads and songs by HELEN ADAM Introduced by Kristin Prevallet takes place on Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm at The Press Room 90 Oxford St Somerville Ma, 55 Oxford St, Somerville, MA 02143-1617, United States. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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