Poetry Night with Colleen Michaels, Jennifer Martelli, Jennifer Jean, and January Gill O’Neil from 7:00- 8:30m with a meet-and-greet at 6:30! Registration is not required, but preferred. Click here to register.
Collections from our featured poets will be available for purchase at the event!
Colleen Michaels was born in Waltham, Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Buffalo and the State University of New York - Fredonia. Her poetry has been published widely, anthologized, and made into public installations for the Trustees of Reservations and the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. She serves on the board of trustees for the Beverly Public Library, is the creator of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, and directs the Writing Studio at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, where she lives with her family. Prize Wheel is her first collection.
Jennifer Jean was born in Venice, California and lived in foster-care until she was seven. Her ancestors are from the Cape Verde Islands. Her poetry collections include VOZ (forthcoming in 2023 from Lily Books), OBJECT LESSON (Lily Books), and THE FOOL (Big Table). Her poems, prose, and co-translations have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Rattle, The Common, On the Seawall, Waxwing, Terrain, and as an Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.
January Gill O'Neil was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and earned her BA from Old Dominion University and an MFA from New York University. She is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Rewilding(2018),Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2019-2020, she served as the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts with her two children.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens (Bordighera Press, 2022) and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), as well as the chapbooks In the Year of Ferraro (Nixes Mate Press) and After Bird, winner of the Grey Book Press open reading, 2016. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day, The Tahoma Literary Review, Thrush, Cream City Review, Verse Daily, Iron Horse Review (winner, Photo Finish contest), and Poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review and co-curates the Italian-American Writers Series. Jennifer Martelli received degrees from Boston University and the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.
