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SUMMARY:Silo Series Poetry Reading with Michael Brosnan\, Meg Kearney\, & Matt Miller at The Word Barn
DESCRIPTION:Join us as The Silo Series presents a special Wednesday evening reading—- three poets at the end of July: Michael Brosnan\, Meg Kearney\, & Matt Miller \nThis reading is free\, but we ask that you register (so we can keep track of numbers). Let’s fill the barn for these poets! \nThe reading will begin at 7 pm (doors at 6:30) \nCan’t wait to see you there! \nThe event is free ($5/person suggested donation)\, but we ask that you register to save yourself a spot. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MICHAEL BROSNAN\nMichael Brosnan is a poet and writer based in Exeter\, New Hampshire. His newest collection of poems\, Pareidolia\, came out earlier this year from Broadstone Books. He has three earlier collections — The Sovereignty of the Accidental (2018)\, Adrift(2023)\, and Emu Blis\, Bums Lie\, Blue-ism (2023). His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and have won awards from various arts organizations\, including the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. \nA graduate of Boston College and the University of New Hampshire Writing Program\, Brosnan is also the author of Against the Current (Heinemann)\, a book on innovation in urban education that was the basis for an award-winning documentary\, Accelerating America. He has taught writing at Queens College\, C.W. Post College\, and the University of New Hampshire\, and served as the longtime editor of Independent School\, a magazine on precollegiate education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MEG\nMeg Kearney’s ninth book\, Cardiac Thrill—a heroic crown of sonnets—was published in fall 2025. Meg’s All Morning the Crows\, winner of the Washington Prize\, spent six months on SPD’s poetry bestseller list in 2021. Meg is also author of Home By Now\, winner of the PEN New England Winship Award; an award-winning picture book; and threeverse novels for teens. Her work has been featured in Best American Poetry and on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.”Meg is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University. Visit megkearney.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MATT W MILLER\nMatt W Miller is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press)\, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award\, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award\, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. and the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Ward\, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include the The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry)\, Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press)\, selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner\, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative\, Rhino Poetry\, Harvard Review\, Notre Dame Review\, Southwest Review\, Florida Review\, Third Coast\, Adroit Journal\, and Poetry Daily\, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize\, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest\, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize\, the Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
URL:https://www.portsmouthnh.com/event/silo-series-poetry-reading-with-michael-brosnan-meg-kearney-matt-miller-at-the-word-barn/
LOCATION:The Word Barn\, 66 Newfields Road\, Exeter\, NH\, 03833\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books & Poetry
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