Kevin Carey & JD Debris

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
2:50–3:40pm

Kevin Carey‘s books include the poetry collections: The One Fifteen to Penn Station, Jesus Was a Homeboy, Set in Stone, the co-written Olympus Heights, and the collaboration Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs. He has published three works of fiction: The Beach People, Murder in the Marsh and a new novel Junior Miles and the Junkman (Regal House / Fitzroy Books) which won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers and has been chosen tor the Pen Faulkner Writers in the Schools Program in Washington, DC. Kevin is the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. A new co-directed film MFA: The Terminal Degree, a murder mystery comedy, will premiere April 30th at Cinema Salem, Salem, MA. Kevincareywriter.com

 

JD Debris is a poet, fiction writer, and musician. His debut book of poems, THE SCORPION’S QUESTION MARK, was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Donald Justice Prize. He received his MFA from New York University, where he was a Goldwater Fellow. He has received the DISQUIET Luso-American Fellowship, and has been named to several “Best New Writers” lists, including Ploughshares’ Emerging Writers and Narrative’s 30 Below 30. His poetry and fiction appears in outlets such as Kenyon Review and Poetry Daily, as well as in the anthology 9×5 ( Only Human Press, 2022) alongside his friends from Salem State University. He leads the indie-jazz band JD Debris & The Melee, whose single, WHO SHOT ALEXIS ARGUELLO? is available on all streaming platforms.

 

M.P. Carver & Jack Giaour

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
2:50–3:40pm

M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, and Love’s Executive Order, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem “In Vitro” was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review’s Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and a chapbook with Lily Poetry Review Books, Hard Up, was released in 2025. More at mpcarver.com.

 

Jack Giaour (he/him/his) is a gay, trans male poet and writer. His manuscript hunting the bugs won the 2023/2024 BOOM Chapbook Contest, hosted by Bateau Press, and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Happy Little Poetry Comix, theHythe, and Nixes Mate Review, among other journals. He has been a reader tor Abode Press, Uncharted Magazine, and TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, taught workshops for MassPoetry and the Belgrade Art Studio, and is a member of the all-trans poetry collective Relatively Queer. He sunlights as software manager for a steel fabricator just north of Boston. Visit him virtually at jackgiaour.com.

 

 

Dawn Paul & Laurie Rosen

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
2:50–3:40pm

Dawn Paul is currently at work on a series of poems about North Shore’s Great Salt Marsh. She is the author of the novels The Country of Loneliness and Still River. Her poetry chapbook What We Still Don’t Know examines the contradictions in the life of scientist Carl Linnaeus, originator of the Linnaean biological naming system used worldwide today. Paul has been a recipient of residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, the Spring Creek Project, Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories and Isles of Shoals Marine Labs. Her poetry has been published in anthologies, journals and most recently, Orion Magazine. Also look for it engraved in the sidewalk on Cabot Street in downtown Beverly!

 

 

Laurie Rosen divides her time between the Massachusetts coast and a home tucked into a Vermont hollow. Her poetry has appeared in The Muddy River Poetry Review, Peregrine, Gyroscope Review, Zig Zag Lit Mag, OddBall magazine, The Inquisitive Eater, a journal of The New School, One Art a journal of poetry and elsewhere. Laurie won first place in poetry at the 2023 Marblehead, MA Festival of the Arts. Recently she had three poems published online with The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, a companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNAl) that was to be released in a final report in 2026. NNAl has now been discontinued per order of our current administration.

 

Montserrat Community Poetry Reading

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
2:50–3:40pm

Sign up for the Open Mic, celebrate Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day, or just cheer on the readers!