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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Rodger LeGrand and Doug Holder at Poets/Pints/ Aeronaut Brewery June 13, 2018












Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

The greater Somerville and Cambridge area is lucky to have such a vibrant poetry community. So, once a month we will gather at the community space at Aeronaut on the Duck Village stage, to celebrate that community with readings by three local poets.

The event will feature a social hour from 6-7 in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans. The formal reading will be from 7-8 and will feature three local poets reading from their latest works.

The poets reading on June 13 are 

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He teaches writing at Endicott College and Bunker Hill Community College. He is the arts/editor for The Somerville Times and director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series. His poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, The Boston Globe,  Cafe Review, Constellations, Word Riot, Small Press Review, Harvard Mosiac, and others. His latest collections of poetry are Last Night at the Wursthaus and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Poseur.

Rodger LeGrand studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the State University of New York at Oswego. He is a lecturer in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has several collections of poetry in print—Two Thirds Water (forthcoming), Seeds, Millions of Ravenous Creatures, Hope and Compulsion, Waking Up On a Sinking Boat, and Various Ways of Thinking About the Universe. You can reach him at www.rodgerlegrand.com


Event date: 
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

14 Tyler ST   Somerville, MA.

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