Reading with Poets Rebecca Kaiser Gibson and Gary Whited

Poets Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Opinel: Poems, Bauhan Publishing) and Gary Whited (Having Listened, Homebound Publications) will read from their work.

Free and open to the public.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson teaches poetry at Tufts University. She has been published in Agni, Antigonish, the Boston Phoenix, Field, the Greensboro Review, the Harvard Review, MARGIE, Mothering, Northwest Review,Pleiades, Salamander, Slate, the Adroit Journal, 236 Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, and her works have been reprinted in an anthology called Cadence of Hooves, as well as featured in VerseDaily. Two of her chapbooks have been published: Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition.

Gary Whited is the author of the book Having Listened. A strong sense of place pervades his poems, whether that place is the prairie, the city, or the inner spaces we inhabit. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, and Comstock Review. Having Listened was selected by the Independent Book Publishers Association for a Benjamin Franklin Book Award in May of 2014. Gary is currently working on a new translation of the complete fragments of Parmenides.