Chapter and Verse

Chapter and Verse is a free literary reading series sponsored by the Jamaica Pond Poets, usually on the second Friday of the month, from October through May. The events take place at the Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain at 7:30 PM (for map and directions, see below). The operating committee members are  Dorothy Derifield, Sandra Storey, Susanna Kittridge, Jennifer Markell, and Alan Smith Soto

There are three readers followed by free refreshments. Open to all. Please join us. A $5.00 donation is requested but not required.For more information, contact dorothy.derifield@gmail.com

Biographies of Our Next Readers 

December 14, 2018,   Friday, at 7:30 PM

 Jonathan Aibel                    

Jonathan Aibel’s voice has been heard in the Brookline Poetry Series, where he was the opening reader for Alan Shapiro in 2016. He is a frequent contributor to their open mike. Jonathan studied with Lucie Brock-Broido as she summered in Cambridge, and is currently studying with Barbara Helfgott-Hyett. He has also been fortunate enough to sit in on classes with David Ferry. Jonathan’s poems have been published, or will soon appear, in The Lily Poetry Review, The Aurorean, Mason’s Road, and Round Magazine. They have been included in the anthology Rhyme and Punishment from Local Gems Press. Jonathan spends his days wrestling software to the ground as an engineer specializing in quality and testing, and he lives in Concord with his wife, son, and cat, who, like most cats, is a poem unto himself.

 Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, a native of Poland, is an essayist and translator. The essays in her 2018 debut collection Objects of Affection were published in Agni, The American Scholar, LitHub, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and other journals. The title piece, “Objects of Affection,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2012; five others were listed among Notable Essays for 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s translations of Polish poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review. In 2010 They Carry a Promise, her translation of a book of poems by the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, was published by Knopf. She has also translated a collection of Philip Levine’s poetry into Polish.

 Ellen Steinbaum

Ellen Steinbaum is the author of four poetry collections including This Next Tenderness, which was published last spring. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and is included in several anthologies including The Widows’ Handbook and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems American Places. An award-winning journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, she writes a blog, “Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe” which can be found at her web site, ellensteinbaum.com.