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December 15

Posted on by Bryan Kreusch
Brookline Poetry Series December 15 Reading: Cindy Juyoung Ok and Chen Chen 
Please note we are online in December, January, and February.
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. A MacDowell Fellow, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award winner, and former high school physics teacher, she is an assistant professor in the University of California, Davis MFA.
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions. His latest chapbook isExplodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His honors include the Thom Gunn Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the National Book Award long list, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He lives in Rochester, NY and teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.

Gabriele’s art books

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Gabriele Dressler is an art teacher and art therapist who moved to Brookline from Germany a little over a year and a half ago.  Since moving to Brookline, she has immersed herself in her art, refining her skills at numerous workshops, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, and sharing her art practice with others.

Gabriele has a profound appreciation for the subtle textures of paper and fabric, often finding hidden treasures in the everyday world around her. She delights in the process of recycling and upcycling materials, transforming the overlooked and the discarded into works of art, infusing them with new meaning and purpose.

You can explore more of Gabriele’s artwork on Instagram @gdress18. 

 

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I’m Jessica, and I grew up in Newton. I also work at the Putterham Library. I’ve always loved art, and have been drawing since childhood. During the pandemic, I attended a virtual embroidery class, and have been hooked on it ever since. I love being able to use my drawing skills to map out designs I want to stitch, and I find the creation of it to be very relaxing. Thank you for looking at my work, and I hope you enjoy it!

Cultivating Community, Weaving Nature Exhibit by Brookline Pollinator Pathway

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Created in 2023 by Brookline residents concerned about the decline in insect population, the Brookline Pollinator Pathway mission is to plant native gardens that increase insect biodiversity, improve ecosystems, support wildlife and improve soil health.

Please join us for an opening reception on Monday, October 7th from 7-8:30 pm in Hunneman Hall or  stop by the Library to learn more about the gardens we’ve already created around Town and how you can get involved!

Eiko Tabata Art Exhibit

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Nature is a powerful force. It provides life for billions of people and it can
take back those gifts in moments notice as well. It all depends on the
balance that we are able to create. If we contribute to it with the respect
that it deserves, nature reflects those contributions back to us with her
beautiful creatures and colorful landscapes. My focus and journey is to
capture those amazing reflections in my works of art.

 

Eiko is a local artist, though she was born and raised in Hokkaido Japan. She was influenced by Anime and started drawing her version as far back as she can remember.  Years later, her love of drawing turned into painting.
Eiko is a self-taught artist, focused on realism to convey the beauty of scenery and animals.

Bjorbaek & Mahoney Autumn Art Exhibit

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Mia Bjorbaek (14 years) is a freshman at Brookline High School. She is also a member of the fall Brookline High School cheerleading team.
Her other hobbies include figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston, sailing on the Charles River and playing with our cocker spaniel, Daisy.
Christine Mahoney is Mia’s mom. She has always loved art and has a BA in journalism with a minor in Studio Art from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

November 10, 2024 – Matthew Henry and Sara Epstein

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Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publications, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). The editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, MEH’s poetry and prose appears or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Fahmidan Journal, The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Pangyrus, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Shenandoah, Solstice, and Zone 3 among others. MEH’s an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.
Dr. Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices, including writing, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Amethyst Review, Chest Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Plainsongs, museum of americana, among others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review.  Bar of Rest is her first book of poems.

October 27, 2024 – Lola Haskins and Charles O. Hartman

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Lola Haskins has published 14 books of poetry and three of nonfiction. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and been broadcast on BBC and NPR. Her latest collection  Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and was a Hoffer Grand Prize finalist.  The one before that, Asylum (University of Pittsburgh, 2019), was featured in the NYT Magazine.  Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEAs, two Florida Book Awards, narrative poetry prizes from Southern Poetry Review and New England Poetry Review, a Florida’s Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America.

Charles O. Hartman has published eight collections of poetry, including Downfall of the Straight Line (Arrowsmith Press, 2024), as well as books on jazz and song (Jazz Text, Princeton 1991) and on computer poetry (Virtual Muse, Wesleyan 1996). His Free Verse (Princeton 1981) is still in print (Northwestern 1996), and Verse: An Introduction to Prosody was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2015. In 2020 he co-edited, with Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, and Matthew Krajniak, a volume on Wendy Battin for the Unsung Masters series. He is Poet in Residence Emeritus at Connecticut College. He plays jazz guitar.

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