Now on Zoom! RSVP as below to attend.Susan Buttenwieser is the author of the short story collection
We Were Lucky with the Rain (Four Way Books). Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous literary publications and received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She contributes news features regularly to Women’s Media Center and teaches creative writing in New York City public schools in high-poverty neighborhoods, with incarcerated women and older adults. To purchase
We Were Lucky with the Rain go to
https://fourwaybooks.com/site/we-were-lucky-with-the-rain-by-susan-buttenwieser/.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of
My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), selected as a 2019 “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Her chapbook,
After Bird, was the winner of the Grey Book Press open reading, 2016.
In the Year of Ferraro was recently published by Nixes Mate. Her work has appeared in
Verse Daily, Iron Horse Review (winner, Photo Finish contest),
On the Seawall, The Sycamore Review, and
Poetry. Jennifer Martelli has twice received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review. You can order
My Tarantella by going to
www.bordigherapress.org.
In the Year of Ferraro can be ordered from Nixes Mate Publishing
https://nixesmate.pub/product/in-the-year-of-ferraro-·-jennifer-martelli/.
Scott Withiam’s latest book of poems,
Doors Out of the Underworld, was published by MadHat Press in October 2019. Withiam has been a recipient of the Ploughshares Cohen Award, and the Two Rivers Review Chapbook and Drunken Boat Pan-Literary prizes. His first book,
Arson & Prophets, came out with Ashland Poetry Press. Poems have been published by
AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Diagram, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Plume, The Sun and elsewhere. He formerly taught college English Literature and writing and now works for a non-profit in the Boston area.
Doors Out of the Underworld can be purchased online by going to
https://madhat-press.com. Either or both books can be purchased by emailing the author at
scwithiam@gmail.com.
To receive a Zoom invitation with a link to the reading, email your name and email address to
SandeeStorey@fastmail.fm before 2 pm on Feb. 11. You will be emailed a Zoom invitation with the link by noon Feb. 12. For security reasons, please do not publicize, post or broadcast the Zoom link itself. If people you know want to attend, you may send them the link, but please ask them also not to publicize, post, or broadcast the link itself.
For more information, check our website at
http://jamaicapondpoets.com or email
dorothy.derifield@gmail.com or call 617-325-8388. The next Chapter and Verse Literary Reading on Zoom in the 2020/2021 series will be at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 12, 2021.
