November 16 – In Person

Patrick Donnelly is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, 2025). Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, Donnelly is program director of The Frost Place, a center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Slate, The VirginiaQuarterly Review, The Yale Review, and many other journals. Donnelly’s translations with Stephen D. Miller of classical Japanese poetry were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at: patrickdonnellypoetry.com

Laurie Rosenblatt M.D. is co-founder and co-editor of LEON Literary Review. She received an MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Pecan Grove Press published her full-length poetry collection, In Case. She has three chapbooks: Blue (Toledo University Press), Cloud-10 (NAGA Gallery Boston, MA), and A Trapdoor, A Rupture, Something with Kinks (Finishing Line Press). She is grateful to the editors of New Ohio Review, The Common, Salamander, Kelp Journal, The Rupture, Dalhousie Review, HUSK and others for publishing her poetry and flash fiction.