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 

April 12, 2019,   Friday, at 7:30 PM

Hillary Sallick                   

Hilary Sallick is the author of a chapbook, Winter Roses, and a full-length collection, Asking the Form, soon to appear from Červená Barva Press. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Exposition Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Bookends Review, Ibbetson Street, The Inflectionist Review, and other publications. She teaches reading and writing to adult learners in Somerville, and she is vice president of the New England Poetry Club.

Natalie Shapero

Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University and an editor at large of the Kenyon Review. Her poetry collections are Hard Child and No Object, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Somerville.

Lindsay Turner

Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collection Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). She is the translator of several books of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy, including adagio ma non troppo by Ryoko Sekiguchi (Les Figues, 2018) and The Next Loves by Stéphane Bouquet, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in the fall. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina and teaches at Furman University.