The Somerville Growing Center will be hosting a celebration of poet Amy Lowell, featuring readings by notable local poets, This coming Saturday, July 20.

Come to the Somerville Growing Center on Saturday, July 20, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., to gather, listen, and celebrate the garden poetry of Amy Lowell. This special event will focus on poetry by and in connection to Amy Lowell, with readings from Jennifer Clarvoe, Lloyd Schwartz, and Denise Provost.

Conversation and an open mic will follow, where all are welcome to share poems from, in, or about the garden.

Jennifer Clarvoe’s first book, Invisible Tender (Fordham, 2000), won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Rome Prize in Literature supported writing for her second book, Counter-Amores (University of Chicago, 2011). She has held fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference and the James Merrill House. Retired from Kenyon College, where she taught for almost thirty years, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.  She has completed a new manuscript of poems, PIANO PIANO.

Lloyd Schwartz is Somerville’s Poet Laureate, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston, editor of Elizabeth Bishop, and music and arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and WBUR’s website. He’s been awarded NEA, Guggenheim, and Academy of American Poets fellowships and the Pushcart and Daniel Varoujan Prizes in poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His poems have been selected for The Best and The Best of the Best American Poetry. His latest book is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems.

Denise Provost. Besides long service in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Denise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (2019) and City of Stories (2021). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, Light Quarterly, qarrtsiluni, and Poetry Porch. Provost received the Maria C. Faust Sonnet 2012 Competition Best Love Sonnet award, and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022.

The Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA 02143. The Growing Center is fully accessible. In case of rain, the event will be rescheduled to July 21 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. For additional info, go to: https://www.thegrowingcenter.org/2024.