When: Thursday, December 11 2025 | 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Where: The Costello Center, 68 Elm Street Amesbury, MA 01913 or Zoom

Carla Panciera’s poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner, One of the Cimalores, Bordighera Press Award Winner, No Day, No Dusk, No Love and most recently, One Trail of Longing, Another of String (also Bordighera). Her short story collection, Bewildered, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her book Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir, was released in 2023 by Loom Press.

Paul Marion is the author of "Union River: Poems and Sketches" and "Lockdown Letters & Other Poems" as well as the editor of Jack Kerouac's early writing, "Atop an Underwood" (English, French, and Italian versions). His recent books include "Portraits Along the Way: 1976-2024," 50 profiles of memorable people he has met in person, on stage, in books, through history and otherwise, some of them well-known and others not household names. In his new book "City Hikes: Field Notes" he writes about places and people he encountered on neighborhood walks in Lowell, Mass. In 1978, he founded Loom Press, which has released more than 60 books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photo-documentary.  

Dan Murphy teaches at Boston University and Waring School. From 2019-2020, he was Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy. His poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, The Summerset Review, Slipstream, Terrain.org, TAB Journal and Indianapolis Review, among others. His chapbook, The Narrow House, was a finalist in the international Fool for Poetry Competition. His debut collection, Estate Sale, won the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published in 2025 by
the University of Utah Press.

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