Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

This hybrid talk/reading will consider time and timing as animating problems for black trans life writing. Drawing together poetry, personal narration, and something approaching a theoretical register, Cameron Awkward-Rich's remarks will be something of an experiment in answering the question: what does it mean to write a black trans past?

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and scholar of transgender theory/cultural production. He is the author of two collections of poetry--Sympathetic Little Monster (2016) and Dispatch (2019)--and his critical writing has been published in Signs, Transgender Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly, and elsewhere. Presently, Awkward-Rich is an assistant professor of women, gender, sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Meets At The Newton Free Library In Newton, Mass. 330 Homer Street. Director: Doug Holder 617-628-2313 Dougholder@Post.Harvard.Edu (Meets Second Tuesday Of Designated Months.7PM Open Mic.)

Ben Berman --Ben Berman’s First Book, Strange Borderlands (Able Muse Press, 2012), Won The Peace Corps Award For Best Book Of Poetry And Was A Finalist For The Massachusetts Book Awards. His Second Book Is Figuring In The Figure, Forthcoming From Able Muse Press In 2017. He Has Received Awards From The New England Poetry Club And Fellowships From The Massachusetts Cultural Council And Somerville Arts Council. He Is The Poetry Editor At Solstice Literary Magazine And Teaches In The Boston Area, Where He Lives With His Wife And Daughters.

Richard Waring---
Richard Waring’s Poems Have Appeared In The Comstock Review, Chest, Sanctuary, Contact II, Dark Horse, The American Journal Of Nursing,Mothering, Inward Springs, The Journal Of The American Medical Association,And Other Publications. Richard Has A B.A. In English Literature From Drew University And Attended The Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics At Naropa Institute, Where He Studied The Poetry Of William Carlos Williams With Allen Ginsberg. From 1982 To 1988. He Is A Senior Layout Artist For The New England Journal Of Medicine. His Latest Collection Is What Love Tells Me.

Clara Silverstein---Clara Silverstein Is The Author Of Four Books, A Blogger About Historic Recipes At Heritagerecipebox.Com, And A Long-Time Writer In The Boston Area. She Has Taught At Grub Street, Inc., Consulted With Individual Writers, And Worked With Young Adults As A Tutor And At The Books Of Hope Literacy Empowerment Program. From 2008 To 2017, She Directed The Chautauqua Writers' Center, Which Sponsors Creative Writing Workshops And Author Programs At The Chautauqua Institution.