Join in for a poetry reading with Denise Provost at the Somerville Museum on April 28 at 7:00 p.m. This is an in-person event at the Somerville Museum.

Provost will read from her recently published book, City of Stories and other poems. Provost has received the Best Love Sonnet award from the Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition in 2012, and the New England Poetry Club’s Samuel Washington Allen Prize in 2021. She is also a beloved member of the Somerville Museum and a long-time Somerville resident.

Long ago, Denise Provost attended Bennington College to study poetry. She then became a lawyer, worked in local government and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for fifteen years. She has published in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, Qarrtsiluni, Quadrille, Poetry Porch’s Sonnet Scroll, Sanctuary, and Light Quarterly. Her chapbook Curious Peach was published by Ibbetson Street Press in 2019. Her collection, City of Stories, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2021.

Provost will be introduced by Pulitzer Prize for Criticism award winner Lloyd Schwartz.

Admission: $10; Museum members free. Space is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance.

Click here for tickets. Thursday, April 28, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Somerville Museum,1 Westwood Road,Somerville, MA 02143 View Map

Book Cover Artwork: artwork is a painting by Steve Imrich, an artist working out of Miller Street Studios. Imrich was also a part of the “Somerville as Muse” project coordinated by curator, Debra Olin. This project was conceived from The Art of Observation exhibition curated by Debra Olin at the Somerville Museum.