FALL 2025 SCHEDULE IN THE PRESS ROOM
Schedule
Sun, 12 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
THE PRESS ROOM 90 0XFORD ST SOMERVILLE MA | Somerville, MA
WOOD IS ORDERED ! & FALL IS UPON IS which means readings in The Press Room. Below is the current schedule subject to slings & arrows etal.....
FALL!
in THE PRESS ROOM ON OXFORD STREET
ON THE WALLS Through December:
WOOD CUTS BY JENNY GRASSL
& on view by appointment c/o [email protected]]
XIT THE BEAR READINGS IN THE PRESS ROOM
Season Eight:
SUNDAY:
OCTOBER 12th 4pm: OPENING DAY!
POETS:
CHRISTINA DAVIS
DAVID RICH
PATRICK PRITCHETT
SUNDAY:
OCTOBER 19th 4PM
POETS
STEVE LUTTRELL
KEVIN MCCLELLAN
NOVEMBER 9th 4pm
"an afternoon of macabre ballads by Helen Adam"
WITH K PREVALLET
SUNDAY
DECEMBER 7TH
READING FANNY HOWE
A CELEBRATION
SCROLL DOWN FOR AUTHOR & ARTIST BIOS
LOCATION AND OTHER DETAILS:
The Press Room
90 Oxford St.
****Somerville. 02143 NOT CAMBRIDGE!!!!! google keeps sending people to Cambridge for some reason******
All are welcome
$5.00 donation requested
{the Press Room is located down the drive & through the garden.}
Parking is non permit on Highland on weekdays and open everywhere on Sundays no permit or coins necessary!.
We are now a brief walk from the Green line Gillman Station (Tufts/Medford line) a 25 min. walk from Harvard Sq or Davis Sq. Buss run from Davis and Lechmere,[88]: (Get off at Central Street:) from Central Sq. and Rindge Ave [Alewife] {83}...Get off at Central & Somerville Ave and walk up Central to Oxford.
Oxford Street is near the junction of Central and Highland.
From Highland walk toward Harvard Sq. on Central and turn left onto Oxford. We are three houses off Central.
We will be open for guests starting at 3:30pm.... reading will start at 4ish.
As always The Highland Kitchen is a short 3min walk & offers a grand bar and food.
After: The Highland Kitchen is a short block away and offers great food and drink at reasonable prices....
______________________________________________________________
BIOS:
CHRISTINA DAVIS is the author of two books of poetry An Ethic (Nightboat) and Forth A Raven (Alice James Books) and is currently at work on a collection called The Small Evers. Her poems have appeared in such journals as APR, Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, Interim, New Republic, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Peripheries, Poetry Magazine, and Spoke. Her collaboration "The Intrabody," with sculptor Gabriel Sobin, was shown at the Dora Maar House, France, and her Walden-inspired collaboration with environmental sound-artist Jacek Smolicki ("Discord, MA") was recently presented in Sweden. She is the curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room.
JENNY GRASSL is a poet and visual artist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Ocean State Review, , The Boston Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bennington Review, Lana Turner Journal, Inverted Syntax, Massachusetts Review, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She was a runner-up in The Boston Review Annual Contest, judged by Mary Jo Bang. She has a finalist complex, but finally was chosen by 3: A Taos Press, where her new collection Magicholia was published in August 2024.
KEVIN MCLELLAN is the author of: Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry); in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology; Tributary; Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University.
He has recent or forthcoming poems in the Harvard Review, Bennington Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and several others.
Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including the Berlin Short Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival where "Dick" won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/
STEVE LUTTRELL was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine , where he formerly served as
Poet Laureate of the city. He is the founder and
publisher of THE CAFE REVIEW . Maines oldest
Quarterly Poetry journal. His new book, PAPER BOATS is his sixth collection of poems.
PATRICK PRITCHETT is the author of six book-length collections of poetry, including Sunderland (2023), Refrain Series (2020), Orphic Noise (2017), and SONG X (2014). His poems have appeared in Hambone, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Colorado Review, and Talisman among others. Poems have been anthologized in The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral Poetry, Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, and For One Boston. An Anthology for the Victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
His critical study, Make It Broken: Toward a Poetics of Late Modernism, was published in 2024 by Black Square Editions. .
DAVID RICH writes poems, plays and prose, and lives on the edge of the Great Salt Marsh. He edited Charles Olson: Letters Home, 1949 - 1969, for the Cape Ann Museum, and his writing has appeared in many small-press magazines.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
