Rozzie Reads Poetry

Rozzie Reads Poetry is a long-running monthly poetry series sponsored by the Friends of the Roslindale Library. The series is organized by a committee which includes Steve Babcock, Dorothy Derifield, Holly Guran, Mary McCusker, Maureen  McElroy (coordinator), and Vivienne Shalom. The readings take place at 7:00 pm on the third Thursday of the month from September-June (with a break in December) in the Community Room at Roslindale House, 120 Poplar Street, Roslindale, MA. (For map and directions, see below.)

At each reading there are two featured poets, followed by a lively open mic. Many find
this a comfortable place to try out their recent work. The events are free, but voluntary contributions are welcome. Refreshments are provided. For more information, contact Maureen McElroy (mcelroy55@rcn.com).


Biographies of Our Next Readers 

  October 17, 2024- Thursday, at 7:00 PM 

Danielle Legros Georges’ poetry collections include the forthcoming Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story (Beacon Press, 2025). She edited Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023), and translated the anthology Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets (Zephyr Press, 2024). She has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, MASS MoCA, the Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. A professor emerita of Creative Writing at Lesley University, in 2014 she became Boston’s second poet laureate.


Cammy Thomas’s current book is Odysseus’ Daughter (Parkman Press). She has three collections from Four Way Books. Cathedral of Wish received the Norma Farber First Book Award from PSA. Tremors received 2022 Poetry Honors from the Mass Book Awards. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation led to inscriptions. Her poem, “Far Past War”, set to music by her sister Augusta Read Thomas, premiered with the Cathedral Choral Society in 2022. She’s from Bolton, Massachusetts.

 


Upcoming Readings

             November 21, 2024 – Charles Coe and Jennifer Markell*

             January 16, 2025 – Wendy Drexler and Gary Whitehead

             February 20, 2025 – Tom Laughlin and Deana Tavares

             March 20, 2025 – Linda Carney Goodrich and Toni Bee

             April 17, 2025 – Mary Bonina and Mark Pawlak

             May 15, 2025 – Anne Pluto and Richard Waring

             June 19, 2025 – Kathleen Aguero and Sara Letourneau


*member of the Jamaica Pond Poets


       Getting to Roslindale House, located at 120 Poplar Street

From Roslindale Square at the Library, go down Poplar Street. The entrance to Roslindale House is about 100 yards past the first corner (Florence Street) on the left. There is generally ample on-street parking on both Florence Street and Poplar street. Please do not park in the Roslindale House parking lot.