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Come enjoy a spring afternoon of poetry and camaraderie in The Word Barn.
Come take in their powerful words and celebrate these poets, their books, and spring all at once!
The event is free ($5/person suggested donation), but we ask that you register to save yourself a spot.
ABOUT ABBIE KIEFER
Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Image, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire and is a poetry editor for The Adroit Journal. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.
ABOUT MATT W MILLER
Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award, the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Award, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include the The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. Matt is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference.$5 suggested donation | Doors at 6:30pm | Reading at 4:00
ABOUT THERESA MONTEIRO
Theresa Monteiro lives in New Hampshire with her husband and children and holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. Her first book of poems, Under This Roof, was published by Fernwood Press in 2024. Her poems appear in various magazines and journals including The American Journal of Poetry, On the Seawall, River Heron Review, Cutleaf, The Banyan Review, Lily Poetry Review, and Poetry South. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.