Category: poetry readings

I’m reading next Thursday in Roslindale (a neighborhood of Boston). There’s parking nearby, it’s on the commuter rail, and it’s a ten-minute bus ride from the Forest Hills T stop. Hope you can come.

Rozzie Reads Poetry
Featuring Roslindale Women Poets and Open Mic
Phyllis Bluhm, Frances Donovan, and Mary Lou Maloney

Thursday January 24, 2019 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Roslindale House, Community Room, 120 Poplar Street, Roslindale, MA

Sponsored by Friends of the Roslindale Branch Library, a free event, contributions voluntary, refreshments provided. Parking on Hawthorne and Poplar streets, in unnumbered spaces, and at rear of building.

Phyllis Bluhm is primarily a painter who works in acrylics, oils, encaustics and also 3 dimensional assemblages. As a physician assistant she worked at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and continues to work in Urgent Care at Harvard Vanguard. She started writing poetry over 40 years ago when getting her masters degree in Art Therapy in Louisville, Kentucky, where she honed her dancing skills and became a founding member of the Louisville Ethnic Dancers which continues to this day.

Frances Donovan is the author of the chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore. Publication credits include The Rumpus, Snapdragon, Marathon Literary Review, and The Writer. She is a certified poet educator with Mass Poetry and reads for Sugar House Review. She once drove a bulldozer in a GLBTQ+ Pride parade while wearing a bustier. You can find her climbing hills in Roslindale and online at www.gardenofwords.com.

Mary Lou Maloney is a poet and former lobbyist for The Arc of Massachusetts, an organization that represents people who are developmentally delayed. She has studied poetry under Barbara Helfgott Hyett and is a member of Poemworks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets. She received her undergraduate degree at Regis College and her Masters at Boston College. Her work has appeared in Constellations, Lit Break, Third Wednesday, and Front Porch. She currently resides in Roslindale.