Newton Free Library Poetry Series Nov 12 7PM Coe, Daly, Ivy

Newton Free Library Poetry Series  ( Click on for details)

Meets at the Newton Free Library in Newton, Mass. 330 Homer Street. Director: Doug Holder 617-628-2313 dougholder@post.harvard.edu (Meets second Tuesday of designated months.7PM Open mic.)

Upcoming Readings Fall 2013

                                     Fall   2013

Nov 12, 2013
Charles Coe is the author of two collections of poems published by Leapfrog Press: “Picnic on the Moon” (1999) and “All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents” (2013). An accomplished jazz vocalist, Coe is known for his powerful readings and warm and compassionate voice. He is featured on numerous spoken word CDs, including “Get Ready for Boston,” a collection of stories and songs about Boston neighborhoods, and “One Side of the River,” an anthology of Cambridge and Somerville poets.


In “All Sins Forgiven,” Coe writes as a way to understand his own mother and father, and to connect readers with their own parents

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Marge Piercy describes the collection as “at once an extremely clear-sighted and unsentimental portrait of Coe’s mother and father, and a book written with great tenderness. It’s rare we can come to see our parents in themselves, and even rarer to see all their faults and yet express love and understanding, as these poems do.”
“My Mother Cut My Hair” begins: “As she stood behind me / dressed in motherhood’s ill-fitting robe / I wonder what messages she read / in the hair that settled around her feet / like snow from some private winter.”
Coe is a program officer for the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a long-time activist with the National Writers Union, a labor union of freelance writers. He lives in Boston.

Alexis Ivy is from Boston.   She is a student of Literature at Harvard Extension School and works as a copywriter for a wallpaper manufacturer.  She is a member of Poem Works: The Workshop for Publishing Poets located in Chestnut Hill.  Her most recent poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Off The Coast, Spare Change News, Common Ground Review, Tar River Poetry, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Eclipse, and J Journal.  Her first poetry collection entitled Romance with Small-Time Crooks was published in early 2013 by BlazeVOX Books. 


Dennis Daly was born in Salem Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College with a B.S. degree and earned a Master of Arts degree at Northeastern University. At Northeastern he studied poetry under Samuel French Morse. For ten years Dennis worked for the General Electric Company. He became a union activist and was elected into the leadership of the 9000 member Local 201 of the International Union of Electrical Workers. During this period he published and edited The Union Activist and the North Shore Union Leader. He also was the managing editor of the Electrical Union News. Dennis has been published in numerous magazines and small poetry journals such as The Sou’wester, The Lyric, Boston Today Magazine, Soundings East, Tendril, Poetry &, Dark Horse, Green House, Lyrical Somerville, Muddy River Poetry Review, Istanbul Literary Review,Wilderness House Literary Review, Bagels with the Bards #7, Lummox, Zig Zag Folios, Fresh Broth, The Boston Poetry Magazine,  Ibbetson Street #32 and he is included with two other poets in a chapbook entitled 10 X 3, published by Northeastern University Press. The editors of Ibbetson Street #32 nominated him for a  Pushcart Prize.  Dennis reads his poems occasionally at Stone Soup Poetry in Cambridge MA, In a Pig's Eye in Salem MA and the Walnut Street Coffee Cafe in Lynn MA and has featured at a number of venues. He is a member of the Bagel Bards, a group of poets and artists, who meet weekly in Somerville. He also regularly writes literary reviews for the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene.

His first book of poems, The Custom House, was published by Ibbetson Street Press in June of 2012.
His translation of Sophocles' Ajax was  published as a paperback in July of 2012 by Wilderness House Press.

In addition Dennis has published travel articles and many op-ed pieces in the Salem Evening News. He is currently working on another book of poetry set in Salem Massachusetts.

Dennis lives in Salem Massachusetts with his wife, Joanne. They have four adult children.