Making It New on Mondays—A Poetry Reading

Six poets from the March-April session of Tom Daley’s advanced poetry writing workshop read from their work.

Robert Carr
Eileen Cleary
Kelly DuMar
Jenny Grassl
Cathy Morocco
Paul Nemser

Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published in 2016 by Indolent Books and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length 2019 collection from 3: A Taos Press. His poetry appears in a variety of journals including the Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard, Rattle, and Tar River Poetry. Pending publications include the Massachusetts Review and Shenandoah. Robert is poetry editor with Indolent Books and an editor for the anthology Bodies and Scars, available through the Ghana Writes Literary Group in West Africa.

Eileen Cleary earned MFA’s at Lesley University and at Solstice. She is twice a Pushcart nominee and has work published in various journals. She manages the Lily Poetry Salon and edits the Lily Poetry Review. Her first full-length manuscript, Child Ward if the Commonwealth is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Press in Spring 2019.

Kelly DuMar is author of two poetry chapbooks, All These Cures, (Lit House Press) and Tree of the Apple (Two of Cups Press). Her newest collection of poetry and prose, “girl in tree bark” is forthcoming from Nixes Mate Books. Kelly’s poems and prose have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Tiferet, Crab Fat, Storm Cellar and more.

Jenny Grassl was raised in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems appeared most recently in the Boston Review annual poetry contest, runner-up prize selected by Mary Jo Bang, also in the anthology: Humanagerie, Eibonvale Press, UK, Ocean State Review, Rogue Agent. and Phantom Drift. Her poems are forthcoming in: Rhino Poetry, Radar Poetry, and Massachusetts Review.

Catherine Cobb Morocco’s poetry books include Moon without Craters or Shadows, Dakota Fruit, and Prairie Canto (chapbook.) “Son’s Story,” won first prize from the Dana Foundation for poetry about the brain. “Homefront” was runner up for the Pangea Prize. Her poems appear in Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, CALYX, and Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and collections, including Unlocking the Poem.
Paul Nemser’s book Taurus won the New American Poetry Prize. He also authored a chapbook, Tales of the Tetragrammaton. His poems appear widely in magazines, recently in The Baffler, London Review of Books, The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review, and Plume. He lives with his wife Rebecca in Cambridge.

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