October 19 – In Person

Hilary Sallick is the author of Love is a Shore (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023), long-listed for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award; and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). Her poems appear in Action, Spectacle; Halfway Down the Stairs; Permafrost; Potomac Review; Notre Dame Review; and elsewhere. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy, she lives in Somerville, MA.  (www.hilarysallick.com)

Oliver Payne had planned to give a reading of his poems in the Brookline Poetry Series this fall, but very sadly, he died in July in Maine, where he had lived since 1996. He had been a longtime member of two different groups of local poets who shared their drafts of poems with one another and exchanged feedback on a regular basis. Oliver’s poems were known for their wit, wide-ranging subjects, and deft use of poetic forms and his clear, thoughtful responses to group members’ poems were always deeply appreciated. A member of the foundation board of The Beloit Poetry Journal, he had also published his poems in places such as The Leon Literary Review. [We’ll celebrate Oliver’s life by reading some of his poems.]