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Join us for our next installment of our Poetry Series, hosted by Cammy Thomas. This evening's readers will include:

Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Her previous books include If a Storm, Figuring, and Hawk Weather. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander, and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative. Anna lives with her family in Dorchester, where she runs the poetry and music series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.

Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of five collections of poetry: This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, Wee Hour Martyrdom, and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award for a first book from Black Lawrence Press. His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Esquire, AGNI Online, Passages North, Poetry East, Poetry International, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. His poems have also been featured on NPR and on Verse Daily.

Lisa Usani Phillips is an Asian American writer and editor. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Beacon Street Review, Current Biography, House Mountain Review, riksha: Asian American Notes and Images, and Salt Magazine, among others. She has received several honors for her writing, including the Emerson College Emerging Writer Award for MFA students. Her debut poetry and fiction collection, Guest People, was published by Wheeling Tern Books in October 2022.