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***FEATURING: Mary Warren Foulk, JuPong Lin, Rafter Sass Ferguson, Beth Filson, Regine Jackson, Sarah Mohamed Nabulsi, and Kathryn Good-Schiff***WHEN: Saturday 4/25, 6-8PM
***WHERE: Abandoned Building Brewery, 142 Pleasant St # 103a, Easthampton, MA 01027
Come hear lovely Western Massachusetts poets bring us into spring for April Poetry Month by reading us their work, hosted by Easthampton Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski and sponsored by Easthampton City Arts!
POET BIOS:
JUPONG LIN: A daughter of Taiwan, farmers and brickmakers, JuPong Lin joins the struggle for apartheid free, kincentric worlds with interdisciplinary art and poetics. She resides in Nipmuc homelands, so-called Western Massachusetts. Her cultural work holds space for witnessing atrocities committed near and afar. As a member of the Land Lovers collective, she embraces darkness and migratory unbelonging. You can find her at www.juponglin.net and on Facebook and Instagram @JuPongLin
BETH FILSON is a poet, playwright and a bookseller at Book Moon Books. She loves searching out rare and collectible books in unlikely places. Beth co-hosts Writers Night Out, an event sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild. Beth earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in poetry but her work spans multiple genres. She is really, really, really about to complete her first novel.
RAFTER SASS FERGUSON is a poet, scientist, forager, and ritualist. He lives in a co-op full of gorgeous, tender weirdos in Greenfield, MA. He writes prayers for nonbelievers—poems that narrate the work of taking a relational stance toward vastness and mystery. His work refuses easy answers about what it means to be alive in this time, and what it is that we need in order to go on. He publishes Culture of Homecoming on Substack.
REGINE JACKSON is a poet and writer based in Northampton, Massachusetts. A multi-creative, her writing spans poetry, memoir, and fiction. Since being named the Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellow in 2022, her work has appeared in the 2024 Massachusetts Bards Poetry Anthology, Reimagining New England Histories Project, Pán•o•ply: Inaugural MultiCreative Anthology, and other journals and anthologies. Regine leads The Flimsy Quill, an initiative offering workshops, literary events, and creative mentorship in Western Massachusetts and beyond. Find her at reginejackson.com and @theflimsyquill on Instagram.
SARAH MOHAMED NABULSI is a child of Nantucket island, Western Massachusetts and its North Shore, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Palestine. She is also a 36-year-old woman of these places. She is an MSW candidate and a poet as yet unpublished. She is a friend, an aunt, a sister, a dancer and a daughter to two parents who are both, of late, resting with the worms in Hope Cemetery of Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a student of grief, bewildered by and in love with the world, despite and because. She lives in a beautiful, haunted manor in Great Falls with three magicians, her dog Poppy, her cat Romeo, and their nemesis, Chocolate Blueberry.
MARY WARREN FOULK has been published in The Hollins Critic, Palette Poetry, Clockhouse, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and North American Review. Her newest collection, The Show Must Go On (Fernwood Press), was a finalist for the 2021 Gival Press Poetry Award and the Inlandia Institute’s 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize.
Find Mary’s work at https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2025/06/18/the-show-must-go-on/
and https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/beautiful-gay
KATHRYN GOOD-SCHIFF is the author of Love Letters to Ghosts and has published poems in various journals and anthologies including California Quarterly, Naugatuck River Review, and PANK. A former gardener, ice cream maker, and editor, she now works as an academic librarian. Kat lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with her wife and their animals in the shadow of an old mountain.
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