April 18th – Mary Buchinger and Matthew E. Henry – in person

Mary Buchinger is the author of eight poetry collections, including There Is Only the Sacred and the Desecrated which received the Paul Nemser Book Prize Honorable Mention, and Navigating the Reach, which won the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award Honors. Mary teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences  and is a member of Slate Roof Press. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Nimrod, On the Seawall, Plume, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. www.MaryBuchinger.com

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is an educator, essayist, occasional fiction writer, and author of seven poetry collections, most recently Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026). Editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, a poetry editor at American Poetry Journal, and nonfiction editor at Porcupine Literary, MEH’s publications include Had, Massachusetts Review, Mom Egg Review, Pangyrus The Pedestal Magazine, Ploughshares, Southern Humanities Review, Stone Circle Review, Terrain, and The Worcester Review. MEH earned an MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com.