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 

March 13, 2020,   Friday, at 7:30 PM

Mary Buchinger               

Mary Buchingeris the author of four collections of poetry, including e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling, Aerialist, and Navigating the Reach (forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Salamander, Slice Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She is president of the New England Poetry Club and professor of English and communication studies at MCPHS University in Boston.

Jennifer Markell

Jennifer Markell’s first poetry collection, Samsara, published in April, 2014 by WordTech Communications, was named a “Must Read Book of Poetry” for 2015 by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Markell won the Barbara Bradley & Firman Houghton awards from the New England Poetry Club. Several years later she became a member of the NEPC Board. Her work has appeared in publications including Consequence, The Hawaii Pacific Review, RHINO, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and The Women’s Review of Books. Jennifer works as a psychotherapist, traveling the royal road that dreams and poetry share.

J. D. Scrimgeour

J.D. Scrimgeour won the AWP Award for Nonfiction for his second book of nonfiction, Themes for English B: A Professor’s Education In & Out of Class. He is also the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being Festival. With musician Philip Swanson he released Ogunquit & Other Works, a CD blending music and poetry. The musical, Only Human, composed with his sons Aidan and Guthrie, premiered at Ames Hall Theatre in 2014. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts, where he chairs the English Department at Salem State University and hosts the Salem Writers’ Group at the Salem Athenaeum. http://jdscrimgeour.com