Our Readers & Writers Guild meets select months in the Preston Cutler Room at Christ Church to hear a featured reader, as well as, share open mic time and peruse attendee's books for sale. We will share potluck snacks.  All are welcome!  For further information, please contact Betsy Retallack.

Next meeting: 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 16

Featured Reader: Elisabeth Weiss. She teaches writing and literature at Salem State University. She’s taught poetry in preschools, prisons, and nursing homes and as well as to the intellectually disabled. She’s worked in New York in publishing and has an MFA from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s published poems in London’s Poetry Review, Porch, Crazyhorse, Lily Poetry Review, SWIMM, The Ekphrastic Review, Birmingham Poetry Review and many other journals. Lis won the Talking Writing Hybrid Poetry Prize for 2016 and was a runner up in the 2013 Boston Review poetry contest and the 2023 Small Harbor Hybrid Chapbook Prize. Her chapbook, The Caretaker’s Lament, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Lis runs a refugee resettlement organization, North Shore Friends of Refugees, and works as a docent in a house built by a shipping merchant in 1768. You can read more at: elisabethaweiss.com

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