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 (coordinator), Mary McCusker, and Vivienne Shalom. The readings take place on Thursdays at 7:00 pm and are free. Refreshments are provided and voluntary donations are welcome.  

For the past two and a half years, the readings have been held on Zoom. This continues (hybrid), and happily this fall, Rozzie Reads Poetry returns live to the community room at Roslindale House (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. For more information and for the Zoom link,  contact  Holly Guran. 

Martha Collins‘s eleventh book of poems, Casualty Reports, was published in October by Pittsburgh; her tenth, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the William Carlos Williams Award.  Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tue Sy, her fifth volume of co-translations from the Vietnamese, appears from Milkweed this spring.  Collins founded the creative writing program at U.Mass.-Boston and taught at Oberlin for ten years. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Enzo Silon Surin is an award-winning Haitian-born poet, educator, publisher, and social advocate. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. Their fourth collection of poems, American Scapegoat, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in May 2023. Surin teaches creative writing and literature at Bunker Hill Community College and is also Founding Editor and Publisher at Central Square Press. He lives in Swampscott, MA.