Join Poet Owen Lewis, Leslea Newman, and Tzivia Gover for a reading, conversation and prosecco on the piazza!
Due to a family illness Jessica Jacobs is unable to attend this reading as previously billed, however her work will be read at the event!
Owen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry, Marriage Map, Sometimes Full of Daylight, Field Light, and most recently Prayer of Six Wings, along with three chapbooks. best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Field Light was a “Must Read” selection of the Massachusetts Books Awards. Major prizes include: The E.E. Cummings Prize (2024), The Rumi Prize for Poetry/Arts & Letters (2023), The Guernsey International Poetry Prize (2023), and The International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2016). Other prizes include: Second Prize 2018 Wigtown (Scotland) International Poetry Competition and Finalist, 2017 Pablo Neruda Award. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Poetry Wales, The Mississippi Review, Southward, The Four Way Review, Cider Press Review, and Arts and Letters. He is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and lectures extensively on topics of Narrative Medicine.
Lesléa Newman has created 87 books for readers of all ages including the memoirs-in-verse, I CARRY MY MOTHER and I WISH MY FATHER; the novel-in-verse, OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD; and the children’s books, SPARKLE BOY and JOYFUL SONG: A NAMING STORY. She has received two National Jewish Book Awards, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors, a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Dutch, Turkish, and Hebrew.
Tzivia Gover is a prize-winning author and poet. Her books on sleep, dreams, and writing include Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. Tzivia shares her poetic writing and translations about the first Hebrew Matriarch, Sarah, in an online publication, The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined (at https://tziviagover.substack.com).