March 15 – In-Person

Andrea Cohen’s most recent poetry collection is The Sorrow Apartments,was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.  A ninth poetry collection, Sugar, will be out in early 2026. Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Boston University and directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA.

Steven Ratiner is the author of Grief’s Apostrophe, published by Beltway Editions in 2025.  He’s also published three poetry chapbooks and a collection of poetry interviews.  His work has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad, including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, Vox Populi,  QRLS (Singapore), and Poetry Australia.  He’s also written poetry criticism for The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post.  GIVING THEIR WORD – Conversations with Contemporary Poets was reissued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press).  He is Poet Laureate Emeritus for Arlington, Massachusetts, and was elected in 2024 as President of the New England Poetry Club, one of the oldest literary associations in America.  Now in its sixth year, his weekly Red Letter Poems features a diverse range of poets, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry (stevenratiner.com).