Trident Books is pleased to welcome Ellen Steinbaum reading from her new book of poetry, Brightness Falls. She will be joined by local poets Wendy Mnookin and Andrew K. Peterson.

About the Speakers:

Ellen Steinbaum is the author of three poetry collections, “Afterwords,” “Container Gardening,” and “Brightness Falls.” Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is included in Garrison Keillor’s “Good Poems, American Places” and “The Widows’ Handbook.” An award-winning journalist and former literary columnist for The Boston Globe, she writes a blog, “Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe,” which can be seen at her web site. 

Dinner with Emerson, Wendy Mnookin’s fifth book of poetry, was published by Tiger Bark Press in March 2016. She has taught poetry at Emerson College, Boston College, Grub Street, and at various summer writing programs. Widely published in anthologies and journals, Wendy’s work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and on Poetry Daily. Additionally, She has received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and a book award from the New England Poetry Club. You can find out more about her writing at wendymnookin.com.

Andrew K. Peterson is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Anonymous Bouquet (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2015). His chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press, 2010) appeared in an exhibition of poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center; his writing has also been featured in The Earth Archive exhibit at RISD Museum, and Emergency Index 2012, Ugly Duckling Presse’s performance-based anthology. He edits the online lit journal Summer Stock, and lives in Boston.