Come join us to indulge our poetic side by listening to two amazing authors!

When: Friday September 19th, 2025 7 - 9PM

Sara: Sara Eddy’s second full-length poetry collection, How to Wash a Rabbit, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.  She is also author of Ordinary Fissures (2024), and two chapbooks: Full Mouth (2020), and Tell the Bees (2019).  Her poems have appeared in many online and print journals, including Threepenny Review, Raleigh Review, Sky Island, and Baltimore Review, among others. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of Net Prizes, and she was the recipient of Causeway Literature’s poetry award.  She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a house built by Emily Dickinson’s cousin.

Jen: Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is the author of the full-length collection Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press, 2024) and the e-chapbook Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk University, 2024). She is the winner of the Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award from Salamander, selected by Stephanie Burt. Her recent work has appeared in or is coming soon from The Common, On the Seawall, SIR, Arkansas International, Palette Poetry, Salamander, Fugue, and Banshee. She is the Program & Outreach coordinator for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center. More at jenjabailyblackburn.com.