On Zoom. Preregistration is required.
Discussion will be led by Jayne Benjulian.
Be sure to stop by the library to check out our display of poetry books throughout the month of March!
Rebecca Faust graduated from Smith College and Stanford Law School. After several decades in Northern California spent raising children and advocating for students with learning challenges, she left law to pursue writing, earning an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson in 2010. Her seventh book of poetry, ONLY, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2022. Her poems, book reviews, essays, and short stories have received many awards and are widely published in journals and anthologies including Healing the Divide: Poems of Kinship and Connection (Green Writers Press 2019) and How Lovely the Ruins, Foreword by Elizabeth Alexander (Spiegel & Grau 2017). Recognitions include the 2019 Pablo Neruda Award (judged by Kaveh Akbar) and the 2018 CP Cavafy Award. Since 2014, Rebecca been the poetry editor Women’s Voices for Change, writing a weekly column that emphasizes diversity and the poetry of women over 40.
Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). A former Holden Scholar and Mellon Mays Fellow, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College.
Victoria Bosch Murray’s poetry and prose have appeared in Booth, Field, Greensboro Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Human/Kind, Kenyon Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. Her latest work is Prayer for Plum and Sinew. She has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and is the Associate Poetry Editor at The Rupture. She lives and teaches in Boston, her heart home.
Jayne Benjulian is the author of Five Sextillion Atoms. She has always been a writer. She grew up in suburban backyards near New York City and spent summers swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Her work appears in numerous literary and performance journals, including Agni, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Nimrod, HowlRound, Women’s Review of Books, Spillway and Poetry Daily. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the James Hearst Poetry Prize. Jayne is an inspired coach for artists and writers. She founded the Berkshire Writers Project ®, where she helps artists develop their book projects, coaches poets and prose writers and teaches the writing and performance of poetry and monologue.