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Voices of Poetry Event – at the Stockbridge Library

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Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring:

Mary Buchinger grew up on a farm in Michigan, worked in Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer, and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. One of her poems is permanently installed in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives and served as Poetry Ambassador. She is professor of English and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston and for many years served on the board of the New England Poetry Club (founded in 1915 by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and Conrad Aiken).

Lee Desrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who moved north to hear the crickets, and has lived in New England for the last 30+ years. Lee is currently working on two books at the same time. Their Honorable Mention poem in the 2023 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest is from a series which is a meditation on and a conversation with gender. Desrosiers edits and publishes a journal of narrative poetry, Naugatuck River Review as well as Wordpeace.co, a multi-genre online literary journal dedicated to peace and social justice. They have three full-length collections of poetry. The latest is Keeping Planes in the Air (2020) from Salmon Poetry. Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and Typing with e.e. cummings, are from Glass Lyre Press. Lee teaches Poetry in the Lesley University MFA graduate program, and English Composition at Westfield State University. They are previously published as “Lori Desrosiers”.

Howie Faerstein is the author of two chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums, he said and Out of Order (Main Street Rag) and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems, both published by Press 53.

An Adjunct Emeritus, Howie taught Creative Writing, Composition, Introduction to World Literature, and Introduction to American Literature at Westfield State University, Berkshire Community College, College of Santa Fe, University of New Mexico-Taos, and Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO.

His poetry and reviews can be found in Great River Review, Nimrod, CutThroat, Off the Coast, Rattle, upstreet, Nine Mile and on-line in Verse Daily, Nixes Mate, Gris-Gris, Peacock Journal, and Connotation and numerous other publications.

A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he volunteers as a mentor at the Center for New Americans, is co-poetry editor of CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts, and lives in Florence, MA.

Adam Grabowski is the author of the chapbook Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Ninth Letter, OVERSOUND, New Ohio Review, Plume, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Off the Coast, DMQ Review, Hobart, Rust + Moth, Exit 7, Bullets into Bells (online), past-ten, Night Coffee, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, The Naugatuck River Review, Radius, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart nominee and the recipient of a 2021 Parent-Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Adam holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Western Massachusetts where he is the associate managing editor of The Maine Review.