Jennifer Barber teaches at Suffolk University in Boston, where she is founding and current editor of the literary journal Salamander. Her poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, the Missouri Review, Poetry, Post Road, upstreet, Poetry Daily, and the Gettysburg Review. Her poetry collections are Works on Paper, which received the 2015 Tenth Gate Prize (The Word Works, 2106), and Given Away and Rigging the Wind, both from Kore Press (2012, 2003).

Tim Cresswell is a widely published poet in the UK, USA, Canada and Ireland. His poems have appeared in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Magma, The Clearing, The Moth, LemonHound and Cider Press Review, among others. His first collection, Soil, was published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. His book-length sequence, Fence, set in the Arctic islands of Svalbard, was published by the same publisher in 2015. As a geographer Cresswell is the author of five books including Place, An Introduction (2014) and On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006).

Timing of performances:
• 1:30 PM • Doors open
• 1:45 PM • Open mike sign-up
• 2 – 4 PM • Poetry readings

N.B. Usually the third Sunday of the month. On rare occasions, this may vary to accommodate holidays or special Library events, so be sure to check the Library Calendar or this page before attending. (Also, all meetings are held at the Main Library if possible, but on very rare occasions we have had to move to the Coolidge Corner Branch because of a scheduling conflict.)