Don McLagan is an entrepreneur and poet. An innovator of business information services for forty years, he is now retired and advises entrepreneurial CEOs. He writes poetry with the Concord Poetry Center, the Cleaveland House and the Edgartown Poets Collective. Don’s...
Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator. He has performed at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, and many other venues. Gibson is widely published in...
heather hughes hangs her heart in Somerville and Miami. Poems recently appear or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Queen Mob's Tea House,and Vinyl Poetry,among other journals. She MLA-ed in foreign literature at Harvard University...
Jackie worked as Senior Web Writer/ Editor at IBM and Lotus Development Corp., taught both technical and scientific writing and editing at Northeastern, and writes poetry. She has won a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship Grant in Poetry, is the author of a...
Lauren McCormick hails from a small town in North Carolina with more rolling hills than people. She holds an MA in English/Creative Writing - Poetry from SNHU and a BA in Ancient Greek Language and Literature from UNCG. While she is obsessed with ancient poetry, she...
Lip Manegio (they/them) is a Pushcart-nominated writer, organizer, & cryptid who is learning to be unapologetically in love with life. They are currently pursuing a BFA in creative writing with a minor in art history at Emerson College, where they also serve as...
For 11 years, Joan worked behind the scenes, first to help Mass Poetry launch and then to keep it going. CFO, accountant, bookkeeper, clerk of the works, problem solver, form completer, legal advisor, Joan has attended to all the prose that poets would prefer to...
Sara Siegel is a lifelong writer and crafter based in Somerville. After graduating Washington University in St. Louis and working at women's health organizations in NYC, she moved to Burlington, Vermont to earn a Masters in Public Administration at UVM. While there...
Laurin Macios holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship for three years. Her work appears in Salamander, Green Mountains Review online, [PANK], Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pinch, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. She was a...
Sam Kiss is a poet and essayist currently pursuing a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, as well as a minor in Nonprofit Communications. He is passionate about the intersection between social justice, community building, and the arts....
Amy has served on the Executive Board and in many other leadership roles of Temple Beth Elohim for many years. She also serves on the board of the Commission on Jewish Continuity & Education and previously on CJP’s Adult Learning Steering Committee. She is Chair of...
Aishvarya Arora (she/her/hers) is an Asian American poet and community-based researcher from Queens, New York. She studied English at Tufts University and was awarded the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award. She’s made homes in Boston, Providence, and Delhi, India...
Peter Orlovsky is a graduate student from Binghamton, New York currently living in Lowell, Massachusetts. Peter graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a degree in Philosophy and Communications and is currently perusing a master’s degree...
Leslie Dami is a 23-year-old designer currently studying at Montserrat College of Art where she is majoring in Graphic Design with an Entrepreneurship in the Arts minor. After studying Graphic Design for three years in high school, she transitioned into college to...
Isaiah Frisbie (he/him/his) is a queer, Latinx poet and designer from Southern California. He earned his dual BA in Literary Arts and English Nonfiction Writing from Brown University and his MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Having worked in community...
Erica Charis-Molling is a poet, educator, and librarian. Her writing has been published in Crosswinds, Presence, Glass, Anchor, Vinyl, Entropy, and Mezzo Cammin and is forthcoming in Redivider. She has taught workshops at the Boston Public Library and online courses...
For 25 years, Gregg has been a management consultant specializing in organizational change and leadership development. He is based in Boston and currently serves as a Managing Director of Egon Zehnder's Leadership Advisory practice. He earned his BA from Trinity...
January Gill O’Neil is the author of Misery Islands (2014) and Underlife (2009), both published by CavanKerry Press. A third collection, Rewilding, will be published by CavanKerry Press in fall 2018. She was the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival...
Harrison Staley is currently an undergraduate English and Philosophy major at Northeastern University. A reader and writer of fiction and creative nonfiction from Dallas, Texas, Harrison looks for inspiration in urban architecture, local ecology, and expressionist...
Jane Donohue (she/her) is a current undergraduate student at Simmons University, where she is studying English and Communications. A writer of poetry, prose, and creative nonfiction, her work has been featured in Kingdoms in the Wild, The Northern New England Review,...
Owen Elphick is a writer, performer, and creator from Storrs, Connecticut. His work has been published in The Hartford Courant, Corridors, Gauge, Concrete, Stork, and the chapbook Fresh Voices 23 (Antrim House Press, 2016); anthologized in The Golden Thread Project by...