Join poets Kathleen Aguero, Richard Hoffman, David Giannini, and Daniel Tobin for a reading, conversation and prosecco on the piazza. Read the authors’ bios below.
This event is presented in collaboration with Voices of Poetry, and was originally organized by the group’s founder, the late Neil Silberblatt.
$10 donation appreciated.
Kathleen Aguero’s latest book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Press. She has published several other collections of poetry: After That, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, Thirsty Day, and Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth. She is co-editor of three collections of multicultural literature: A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare. Recipient of a Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kathleen also was awarded a writing grant from the Elgin/Cox Trust. She has taught at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, the NY State Young Writers’ Program at Skidmore, as well as in the Poets in the Schools Programs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
In 2004, she held the position of Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching in the Solstice low residency MFA program, Kathleen teaches for “Changing Lives Through Literature,” an alternative sentencing program based on the power of books to change lives through reading and group discussion.
Richard Hoffman is author of the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury; the poetry collections, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; Emblem; Noon until Night, awarded The Massachusetts Book Award in 2018. He is also author of Remembering the Alchemists: Essays, and the story collection Interference & Other Stories. He is Emeritus Writer in Residence at Emerson College, and Nonfiction Editor of Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices.
David Giannini’s most recently published collections of poetry include: STONES ARE THE FIRST TO RISE (2025); ALREADY LONG AGO (2023); THE DAWN OF NOTHING IMPORTANT (2022), VIRAL PACKET (New Feral Press, 2020;) MAYHAP (selected brief poems,2020;) THE FUTURE ONLY RATTLES WHEN YOU PICK IT UP; and IN A MOMENT WE MAY BE STRANGELY BLENDED (Dos Madres Press, 2018-2019;) FACES SOMEWHERE WILD (Dos Madres Press, 2017;) SPAN OF THREAD (Cervena Barva Press, 2015;); AZ TWO (Adastra Press,) a “Featured Book” in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival; INVERSE MIRROR, a collaboration with artist, Judith Koppel (Feral Press/Prehensile Pencil, 2012;) WHEN WE SAVOR WHAT IS SIMPLY THERE (Feral Press/Prehensile Pencil, 2013;) and RIM/WAVE (two full-length poetry collections in one book from Quale Press, 2012.) ANTONIO & CLARA, Giannini’s 1992 poem issued as a book from Adastra Press was reissued in a different format from Feral Press in 2012.
Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems. His poetry has won many awards, among them the Massachusetts Book Award, the Julia Ward Howe Prize, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. The Mansions, a trilogy of long poems that form a single design, won the National Indie Book Award in Poetry. From the Distances of Sleep, a chapbook, is newly out from Staircase Books as is The Odeon, essays on poetry, from LSU Press. His Dusk Empire: New and Selected Poems will appear in 2026 from Four Way Books.