Poetry Reading and Book Signing at the Forbes House Museum
Friday, March 31, 6:30 pm
March 31 marks the last day of Women’s History Month, and falls just before the calendar turns to National Poetry Month. In recognition of these monthly observances, FHM is hosting a poetry reading and book signing by two local female authors.
About Martha Collins
Martha Collins’s eleventh volume of poetry is Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022); her tenth, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her fifth collection of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tue Sy, is due from Milkweed in May. Collins founded the U.Mass Boston creative writing program and later served as the Pauline Delaney Professor of creative writing at Oberlin College. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her website is marthacollinspoet.com
Casualty Reports
This probing 11th book from Collins reckons with social issues impacting the past, present, and future. . . In trying times, readers will find refuge in Collins’s intelligent and generous lyric reflections. – Publishers Weekly
About Anna V.Q. Ross
Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander, and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer in Poetry at Tufts University and also teaches at MCI Concord through the Emerson Prison Initiative. Anna lives with her family in Dorchester, where she runs the poetry and music series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.
Flutter, Kick
Flutter, Kick explores the fullness of life while harnessing poetry’s ability to examine the past. This feminist voice not only marvels and reveals, but also hums, channels, witnesses, and affirms. Ross navigates the waters of motherhood and memory, tempers regret with resoluteness, and does so with soft rhymes and language that lifts off the page. – January Gill O’Neil, author of Rewilding