About this Event
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ABOUT LYNNE VITI
Lynne Viti is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts. A lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College, she is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Dancing at Lake Montebello (2020) and The Walk to Cefalù (2022), and two poetry chapbooks, Baltimore Girls (2017) and The Glamorganshire Bible (2018). She has received awards in the Highland Park Poetry Challenge, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, Fish Publishing Poetry Contest, Westbeth Artists/Miriam Chaikin Award for Poetry, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Glimmer Train, and Hale Education Poetry Contest. She facilitates a poetry workshop at the Westwood Pub Library and a poets-in-the-schools program. She serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club, and blogs at lynneviti.wordpress.com.
ABOUT HEATHER TRESELER
Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan, 2024), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award; Hard Bargain, a new chapbook about cruxes in women's lives (Lily Poetry Review Books); and Parturition (Southword, 2020), which received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.
Treseler's essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary poetry. Her essay "My Search for Elizabeth Bishop" was cited in Best American Essays. In 2022, she edited Beyond the Frame, Celebrating a Partnership in Public Education and the Arts, a collection of essays by distinguished New England writers, highlighting signature artworks at the Worcester Art Museum.
Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as residencies at the Boston Athenaeum, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the T. S. Eliot House. Recipient of the George I. Alden award for Excellence in Teaching, she is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and professor of English at Worcester State University. She teaches courses in creative writing (poetry and non-fiction), contemporary American literature, and literature and medicine.
ABOUT LLOYD SCHWARTZ
Lloyd Schwartz is the poet laureate of Somerville, the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a longtime arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. He’s published five books of poetry, including Little Kisses, a Mass Book Award Must Read, and most recently, Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press). He has also published a collection of his music reviews (Music In—and On—the Air, Arrowsmith), and has edited three volumes devoted to the works of Elizabeth Bishop, including the Library of America Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, Bishop’s Prose (FSG), and Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press). Among his honors are the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Academy of American Poets for his poetry. His poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Poetry, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. His next collection, “Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4, 1948)” and other poems will appear next year from Arrowsmith Press.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley, United States
USD 6.24
