Join us for an evening of poets. Denise Bergman will be reading for her newly released book THREE HANDS NONE just out by Black Lawrence Press.
About the readers:
Denise Bergman’s fourth book of poetry, Three Hands None (2019), delves into the night forty years ago when the author was attacked in her bed by a stranger. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea centers on the making and endurance of “symbol” in the Statue of Liberty. The Telling is a book-length poem generated by a relative's one-sentence secret about her escape as a refugee. Seeing Annie Sullivan is based on the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher. The first stanza of her poem “Red” is permanently installed in a public park in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Martha Collins’s most recent book of poetry, Because What Else Could I Do, was published in fall 2019 in the Pitt Poetry Series. She has published nine earlier volumes of poetry, including Admit One: An American Scrapbook, White Papers, and Blue Front, as well as four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. Collins founded the Creative Writing Program at U.Mass.-Boston and served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College for ten years.
Grace Bonner is the author of Round Lake, a poetry collection published by Four Way Books. Her memoir, The Book of Atlantis Black, is forthcoming from Tin House in Fall 2020. A faculty member of the Writer’s Foundry M.F.A. program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, she is also a former Director of the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, where she teaches an annual poetry seminar. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Brooklyn Quarterly and The Southampton Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, Eliot House and the VCCA, and a mentor in PEN’s Prison Writing Program.
Carolynn Kingyens is the author of Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound from Kelsay Books. The collective voice in the collection is intuitive, an outsider and observer, navigating a way through heartbreak, anxiety, freakish accidents, ghosts, regret, illness, set against the beautiful-gritty landscape of New York City. Carolynn lives in New York City with her husband, and two kind, funny, and super creative daughters.