ALONG FOR THE RIDE POETRY READING Feb 14, 2018 7PM Holder, Gager, and Meek

ALONG FOR THE RIDE POETRY READING

W e d n e s d a y,  F e b r u a r y  14th

7pm, at First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, near Harvard Square

Presented by THE HASTINGS ROOM READING SERIES

I rode with magic ease
At a quick, unstumbling trot
Through shattering vacancies
On into what was not…                      Richard Wilbur, from“The Ride”

F E A T U R I N G

Doug Holder, founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, arts editor for The Somerville Times, and curator of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series. His poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, Constellations, The Boston Globe Magazine, Cafe Review, Toronto Quarterly, Home Planet News, and many others. Doug's latest book of poetry is Last Night at the Wursthaus ( Grey Sparrow Press). He teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College and Endicott College. Holder is a graduate of Harvard University with an MLA in English and American Literature and Language. He has run poetry workshops for psychiatric .patients at McLean Hospital for over 30 years.

Timothy Gager, author of thirteen books of short fiction and poetry. Chief Jay Strongbow is Real (Big Table Publishing) is his first book of poetry in four years. He's hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 2001. Timothy is the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. His work has been read on National Public Radio.

Ed Meek, author of Spy Pond and What We Love. A collection of his short stories, Luck, came out last May. He has had poems in The Sun, The Paris Review, and WBUR’sCognoscenti. He writes book reviews for The Arts Fuse. Follow him on twitter @emeek.