Annual reading—Denise Bergman, Susan Freireich, Molly Lynn Watt

Annual reading! 

Denise Bergman

new poems

Susan Freireich

creative nonfiction

Molly Lynn Watt

new poems

please stay for refreshments

(Red Line, Central Square stop. Parking in adjacent garage)

Denise Bergman’s A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea won the Patricia Clark Smith Poetry Prize and was published by West End Press in 2014. The Telling was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2014. Seeing Annie Sullivan, poems based on the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher, was translated into Braille and made into a Talking Book. Denise conceived and edited City River of Voices (West End Press), an anthology of urban poetry. An excerpt of her poem Red, about a slaughterhouse in the neighborhood, is permanently installed in Cambridge as public art.

Susan Freireich lived and worked in the civilian communities caught in El Salvador’s civil war and is writing a book about the experience. Her work has appeared in Poetic Voices Without Borders (2005), The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2007, and The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008.

Molly Lynn Watt, poet and educator, worked at Highlander in Tennessee in 1963. On Wings of Song – A Journey into the Civil Rights Era (Ibbetson 2014) is her memoir in poems of those turbulent times. Other credits include Shadow People (Ibbetson 2007), Consider This, a chapbook with an incest theme, and Civil Rights Update, paired with Dr. King’s I Have a Dream in Dallas Public Schools. With Daniel Lynn Watt, she co-authored and performs George and Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War, also on CD. Watt was poetry editor for HILR Review, editor for the BagelBard anthologies 1-4, and curated the Fireside Readings.