Join us for an afternoon of poetry with the Powow River Poets! Readings are free, accessible, and open to the public. The poets reading this month are Rachel Hadas and Andrew Szilvasy. This reading will be held in the Library Program Room, and masks are optional. Come early to sign up for open mic!

Rachel Hadas is a poet, essayist, and translator. She studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. She is the author of more than twenty books including Poems for Camilla, Questions in the Vestibule, Strange Relation, and Love and Dread (forthcoming). She co-edited the anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, and she is a frequent reviewer and columnist for the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in New York City.

Andrew Szilvasy is the author of the chapbook Witness Marks, and has poems appearing or forthcoming in CutBank, Barrow Street, Smartish Pace, Tar River Poetry, The Moth, and RHINO, as well as numerous anthologies. He lives in the greater Boston area with his wife.  

The Powow River Poets, based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, are active promoters of poetry in New England.