About this Event
About the Book:
In Olympus Heights, poets Kevin Carey and Colleen Michaels reimagine the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology as contemporary neighbors in a gated community. You know them: overblown architecture, inflated ego, misplaced desire. This collaborative chapbook, offered up as farce, is the result of a writing challenge between two friends (and neighbors) during one long summer of the pandemic. Each poet would assign the other a god or goddess weekly. Whether as persona, blackout, dialogue, villanelle, or Instagram post, the poems in Olympus Heights call out the privilege, misogyny, violence, narcissism and folly of bad neighbors of this mythic class.
About the Poets:
Colleen Michaels is the author of Prize Wheel (Small Bites Press, 2023), the editor of Salem Power: Poems from the 2014 Improbable Places Poetry Tour (Derby Wharf Light Box, 2023), and coauthor, along with Kevin Carey, of the chapbook, Olympus Heights (Lily Poetry Review, 2023). Her poems have been commissioned as installations for The Massachusetts Poetry Festival, The Peabody Essex Museum, and The Trustees of Reservations. She directs the Writing Studio at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, where she began the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, bringing poetry to unlikely places like tattoo parlors, laundromats, and swimming pools. Yes, in the swimming pool. www.colleenmichaels.com
Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. Books include: The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), The Beach People (2014), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020). His poems have appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio three times and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller. A crime novel, M**der in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new novel Junior Miles and the Junkman dropped in September of 2023 from Fitzroy Books / Regal House Publishing and a co-written collection Olympus Heights (Lily Poetry Review) came out in October. He is the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. Kevincareywriter.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, 71 Charles Street, Boston, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 12.00