Join us for the latest installment in our Poetry Series, hosted by Cammy Thomas.

This program is hybrid. You can attend in person or via Zoom. Registering will provide you with a Zoom link, should you choose to attend virtually.

Ann Bookman is a poet, anthropologist and social justice advocate. Her poems have been published in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Larcom Review, Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Chronogram, and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. In 2012, she published a chapbook, Point of Attachment, with Finishing Line Press. Her first full collection, Blood Lines, was published by Kelsay Books in the spring of 2022. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.

Julia Lisella's books include Our Lively Kingdom, forthcoming from Bordighera Press fall 2022, which was named a finalist in the Lauria/Frasca poetry prize. She also has written Always (WordTech Editions, 2014), Terrain (WordTech Editions, 2007), and a chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in Pangyrus, Lily Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Nimrod, Exit 7, Ocean State Review and many other journals and anthologies. She is a professor of English at Regis College and co-curator of the Italian American Writers Association Literary Reading Series in Boston, MA.

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize.