Rozzie Reads Poetry

Rozzie Reads Poetry is a free literary reading series sponsored by the Friends of the Roslindale Library, usually on the third Thursday of the month, in October, December,January, March, and May. The events take place in the community room at Roslindale House at 7:00 PM (for map and directions, see below). The operating committee members are Steve Babcock, Dorothy Derifield, Holly Guran, Mary McCusker, and Vivienne Shalom.    

There are two readers, followed by an open mike. Free refreshments. Open to all. Please join us. For more information, contact  hguran@aol.com

Biographies of Our Next Readers 

                     September 27, 2018,   Thursday, at 7:30 PM

   Preston Hood

 Preston H. Hood III is a former Navy SEAL and the author of two books of poetry: A Chill I Understand, 2006 (finalist in    the Maine Literary Awards), and The Hallelujah of Listening, 2011 (winner of the Maine Literary Award in Poetry). He teaches Therapeutic Creative Writing and Yoga Nidra Meditation, and has been a presenter at the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences. Preston recently won the 27th Poet’s Seat contest.

  Elizabeth Quinlan

 Elizabeth Quinlan, author of Promise Supermarket (Ibbetson Street Press), is a poet, artist, graduate of the Boston  Museum of Fine Arts School, and member of the Joiner Institute Writer’s Workshop. She received an Honor in Creative Writing at UMass Boston, and has worked on poems based on the life of the African-American, Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1936). Currently she is developing a series of persona poems based on refugees and migrants.