Next Reading: March 6, 2012
7:00 pm | The Marliave: Bosworth St, Boston
MBTA: Park Street / Downtown Crossing
U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under the age of thirty five. Conceived as a space for greater community as well as diversity of voice and vision, U35 was selected as one of 2010's ten best new event series by the Boston Globe. On Tuesday, March 6th at 7:00 pm we are pleased to host Ron Spalletta, Ori Feinberg, and Emily O'Neill.
Ron Spalletta haphazardly completed an MFA in poetry, received both a grant and a celebratory breakfast buffet from the state of Massachusetts, and has been published in Chamber Four and Slate.
Ori Fienberg has had writing published a variety of places including Artifice, Kill Author, and the latest issue of the Mid-American Review. By day he works as the Lead Writing Specialist for Foundation Year, a Northeastern University first-year college program for Boston high school graduates. At night he counts Iowans to fall asleep.
Emily O'Neill is an artist, writer, and performer raised on half-truths and homespun mythology. She's performed her work on stages from Portland to Orlando as a member of the No More Ribcage tour, and at the 2010 National Poetry Slam. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Pank, The Pedestal, and Side B Magazine, among others. She has a degree in the synesthesia of storytelling from Hampshire College and splits her time (and her heart) between Somerville, MA and Providence, RI.
Listen to past U35 readers!
Kent Leatham
Kent was born and raised in Steinbeck Country, California. He received his BA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in poetry from Emerson College. He serves as senior poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press, and has had more than three dozen poems and translations published in journals such as Zoland, Artifice, Poets & Artists, and The Bellevue Literary Review, as well as having his work appear on buses in Seattle and in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Hannah Baker-Siroty
Hannah has writing degrees from University of Wisconsin, Madison and Sarah Lawrence College. She has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and Writers' Room of Boston, and teaches writing at Pine Manor College. She is hoping to find a publisher for first book of poems, Odd of the Ordinary. She currently lives in Arlington, MA and is working on a book of poems about Vice-Presidents.
Jim Cronin
Jim focuses his creative efforts primarily on poetry, but makes a living as a journalist and editor. He lives and works in the Boston area and is an active member of writing workshops as well as organizations dedicated to environmental advocacy. His poems, feature news articles and essays have been published in the Boston Globe and Globe Magazine, Lyrical Somerville, Fox Chase Review and elsewhere. He is the founding poetry editor of the White Whale Review, an online literary journal, and is currently a guest editor for Amethyst Arsenic, another online magazine of poetry and art.
Sean Campbell
Sean Campbell came to Boston from Mahopac New York, to attend college at Emerson. He has worked with various publishers including MIT Press and Pearson. He's had poems published in BU's Clarion magazine and American Drivel Review, and has a poem accepted in Boston Review.
Sarah Sweeney
Sarah Sweeney's poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Quarterly West, PANK, Cream City Review, Barrelhouse, Tar River Poetry, and others. She received an MFA from Emerson College an write for the Harvard Gazette. Visit her online at Sarah-Sweeney.com.
Matt Summers
Matt Summers lives in Boston with his wife and dog. His poems have appeared in The Notre Dame Review, Silk Road Review, The South Carolina Review, The American Poetry Journal, and on ThievesJargon.com.
Ailbhe Darcy
Ailbhe Darcy has published poems in Ireland, Britain and the US, and writes critically for a number of publications including The Critical Flame, The Stinging Fly, and Verbal. She recently appeared as part of the prestigious Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. She has just embarked on a PhD in contemporary poetry at the University of Notre Dame. With Clodagh Moynan, she co-edits Moloch, an online journal of new Irish art and writing.
Mark Thomas Noonan
Mark Thomas Noonan is a poet, playwright, and musician from Ireland, now living in Atlanta, Georgia. Mark's plays have been produced in Dublin, Cork, and New York, and his poetry and other writing have appeared in numerous journals. He recently completed an MA in Ethnomusicology from University College Cork and now works for an independent folk music label.
Adam Fitzgerald
Adam Fitzgerald is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, editor at Monk Books, and editor of Maggy Poetry Magazine. His poems have appeared in several journals.
Liza Katz
Liza Katz is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Critical Flame, Clarion, Exit 13, and North Central Review. She is at work on a book-length essay entitled Bridging the Gap between French and Francophone Literature.
Stephen Sturgeon
Stephen Sturgeon is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. He is the author of Trees of the Twentieth Century (Dark Sky Books, March 2010) and a graduate of Boston University and SUNY Buffalo.
Joseph Spece
Joseph Spece is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program and recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine and elsewhere.
Nora Delaney
Nora Delaney is a poet, translator, and an editor at The Pen and Anvil Press and is currently working toward her Master's Degree in Editorial Studies from Boston University. Her work has appeared in The Critical Flame, Jacket, Little Star, and elsewhere.
Michelle Robinson
Michelle Robinson received her PhD from the American Studies program at Boston University, and is the author of The Life of a Hunter (Iowa).
James Stotts
James Stotts is a poet and translator of Russian writing between the wars. His poetry was featured in the first issue of Little Star, and he has a recent chapbook out from Pen and Anvil Press.
Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean Press, poet and burlesque performance artist. He was voted The Boston Phoenix Boston's Best Poet in 2010, and his work has appeared in several journals and chapbooks.
