Boston Area Poetry Readings for January and February 2016

January always feels like a holiday hangover to me. So far, the temperatures are bracing cold and the skies clear — two good signs after last February’s record snowfalls. Please Skadi, send us enough snow for snowshoeing and not enough for epic shoveling. Daniel Bouchard sets us back on the path of poetry with the listings below. All locations are in Massachusetts (USA) unless otherwise noted.

My poetry workshop in Roslindale, MA also reconvenes in February. Priced for starving poets, focused on generating new work.

Friday, January 8, 7:30 pm
Dan Johnson, Deborah Melone, and Jan Schreiber
Chapter and Verse
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain Centre

Saturday January 9, 3 pm
Elizabeth J. Coleman and David Berman
Powow River Poets Reading Series
Newburyport Public Library
94 State Street
Newburyport, MA
Free and open to the public

Sunday, January 10, 12 pm
Rona Laban and T. Michael Sullivan
Poetry: The Art of Words
11 North St
Plymouth

Sunday, January 10, 2:30–4 pm
Kate Colby leads Whispering Gallery, a poetry walk and performance
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston

Sunday, January 10, 3 pm
Holly Guran, John Hodgen and George Kalogeris
Calliope: Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library
575 West Falmouth Highway
Falmouth, MA
Donation: $5
Refreshments provided

Tuesday, January 12, 7 pm
Martin Rock and Kevin Prufer
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
9 Plympton Street
Cambridge

Sunday, January 17, 1 pm
Visual Inverse Ekphrasis Reading
poets Dana R Rowe, Miriam O’Neal, Philip Hasouris, Lisa Sullivan, Kathleen Trestka, Diane Harrison, Dolores Stewart Riccio and Tim Reed
artists Edwina Caci, Becky Haletky, Denise Maccaferri, Andrew Kusmin, Sheila DiIulis and Edward Cunningham
11 North St
Plymouth

Sunday, January 17, 2 pm
January G. O’Neil and Danielle Jones-Pruett
Brookline Poetry Series
Brookline Public Library Main Branch
361 Washington St.
Brookline

Monday, January 18, 3 pm
Martha Collins
Theater Piece No. 1×50: Poets in Ekphrasis
Reading related to Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Exhibition
ICA Boston
100 Northern Avenue
Boston

Thursday, January 21, 7 pm
Susan Nisenbaum Becker, Alan Albert, and open mike
Rozzie Reads Poetry
Roslindale House
120 Poplar Street
Roslindale

Friday, January 22, 6 pm
Nicole Terez Dutton
Theater Piece No. 1×50: Poets in Ekphrasis
Reading related to Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Exhibition
ICA Boston
100 Northern Avenue
Boston

January 26, 2:30-3:30pm
Joshua Bennett
MIT 14E-304 (Hayden Library)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, January 28, 7 pm
James Geary
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
9 Plympton Street
Cambridge

Wednesday, February 3, 7 p.m.
Deborah Gorlin and Rebecca Okrent
Porter Square Books
Porter Square Shopping Center
Cambridge

Sunday, February 21, 2 pm
Sarah Howe
Brookline Poetry Series
Brookline Public Library Main Branch
361 Washington St.
Brookline

Monday, February 22, 8 pm
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
The Blacksmith House
56 Brattle Street
Cambridge

Friday, February 12, 7:30 pm
Paula Bonnell, Tom Deley, and Kevin Gallagher
Chapter and Verse
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain Centre

Sunday, February 14, 12 pm
Gregory Hischak and Terry Johnson
Poetry: The Art of Words
11 North St
Plymouth