Date: July 18, 2018 Event: Breath and Matter Exhibit Grand Opening Time: 5:30-8:30pm Place: Boston Sculptor's Gallery, 486 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
Poet and Sculptor Collaborations: For detailed information see the website. Each sculptor and each poet pair has created new work in response to his or her partner's art or writing. An article about Breath and Matter has also been posted on the Mass Poetry website. The exhibit will be open from July 18-August 12.
Grand opening is free of charge and open to the public. At the reception, Mary reads with other participating poets.
Note: A second reception and reading will take place on August 3 as part of SOWA's First Fridays, evening gallery walks.
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2018 Event: Warren Wilson College Post-MFA Conference This event is open to Warren Wilson Conference registrants only
Collaboration: Leaving the Island of Solitude, a panel discussion. Mary and Playwright Emile Beck with Children's Novelist Pamela Berkman discuss their experiences--the challenges and benefits of entering into a partnership to create art with others. What powerful discoveries result from exchanging individual creative control for mutual trust? How does the give and take yield work that satisfies each participant while generating a joint work of art?
Date: Saturday, July 7, 2018 Event: Warren Wilson College Post-MFA Conference Time: 7:15-9pm Place: Creekside Room, Caleruega Hall, Magnolia Street, Dominican University, San Rafael, California
All group readings (July 7-10) open to public. Classes, etc. closed.
Mary reads with fellow Warren Wilson alums Rolf Yngve, Ann Scott Knight, Susan Kolodny, Lauren Atwan, Idris Anderson, Mari Coates, and Kathryn Schwille.
Sunday, May 6, 2018 Event: WHY THERE ARE WORDS National Literary Series Time: 6:00pm Place: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Mary reads with Janet Thornberg, Peter Carroll, Barret Warner, Geoff Kronik, and Marisa Silver in the award-winning WHY THERE ARE WORDS National Literary Series (with locations also in LA, Pittsburg, Portland, and Austin). NYC Branch Coordinator, Poet Michael Collins.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 Event: Annual Members Reading, The Writers Room of Boston Time: 6:30pm Place: Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 30 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Mary reads new poetry from her current manuscript-in-progress. She will be joined by members who work in a variety of genres: Geert van der Kolk, Margery Ganz, Simon John, Bob Dall, Rebecca Mahoney, Daniel Johnson, and Amy Hoffman.
Saturday, February 17, 2018 Time: 6:00-8:00pm Place: I Am Books (bookstore), 189 North Street, Boston, MA 02113 (in the North End)
Mary reads with Lo Gallucio (poet, memorist). Hosted by Jennifer Martelli and Julia Lisella. For the Italian American Writers Association.