(New start time!) Chapter & Verse: Carver, O'Neil, and open mic

Name: (New start time!) Chapter & Verse: Carver, O'Neil, and open mic
Start: 2025-10-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-17T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Loring Greenough House

Schedule

Fri Oct 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Loring Greenough House | Jamaica Plain, MA

The Jamaica Pond Poets are pleased to kick off the 2025-2026 season of Chapter & Verse with our new format: 7:00pm start time, two featured readers, and an open mic!
Join us at Loring-Greenough house to hear two excellent North Shore poets and share up to one page of your own poetry.
*M.P. Carver* is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, and Love’s Executive Order, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem "In Vitro" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and a chapbook with Lily Poetry Review Books, Hard Up, is available now from Lily Poetry Review Books.
*January Gill O’Neil* is a professor at Salem State University and the author of the award-winning Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Sierra, and more. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” won a 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025).

Suggested donation: $5 or whatever you can afford. (We mean this. We would rather have you than your money.) Free refreshments are served.
Parking Information: The Loring Greenough House has a small parking lot. Please try not to park on the grass. There is nonrestricted street parking and a large, free public parking lot off Centre Street between Burroughs and Thomas Streets just a block from the Loring Greenough House.
Public Transportation: Loring Greenough is on the #39 bus line and is about a 12 minute walk from both the Green Street and Forest Hills stations on the Orange Line.
Finally, please note that while October's reading is happening on the third Friday of the month due to a one-time scheduling conflict, the rest of this season's readings will be on the second Friday of the month as usual.
For more information check our website at http://jamaicapondpoets.com