Boston Poet Spotlight Series

Local poet John Mulrooney opens for Kevin Gallagher, who will be reading from and signing his new book, LOOM.

Kevin Gallagher is a political economist, poet and publisher living in Greater Boston with his wife Kelly, their children Theo and Estelle, and Rexroth, the family’s German shepherd. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and works as a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies.

John Mulrooney is a poet, filmmaker, and musician living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is co-producer of the forthcoming documentary The Peacemaker from Central Square Films and author of If You See Something, Say Something from the Anchorite Press. He is associate professor in the English department at Bridgewater State University, where he teaches film and creative writing. His work has appeared in Fulcrum, Pressed Wafer, Poetry Northeast, Spoke, Let the Bucket Down, and others.