Join us for a remarkable evening of poetry from Martha Collins + Tom Laughlin at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. All are welcome! Followed by a reception.

Parking available in the lot as you enter Rocky Neck and in (non-resident) street spots throughout the neighborhood.

Martha Collins has published eleven books of poems, most recently Casualty Reports, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous book, Because What Else Could I Do, won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also co-translated four volumes of Vietnamese poetry, with a fifth coming from Milkweed this spring. Collins founded the creative writing program at UMass Boston and served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College for ten years. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tom Laughlin is a professor and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Middlesex Community College.  He was a founding editor of Vortext, a literary journal of Massasoit Community College, a volunteer staff reader for many years for Ploughshares, and he has taught literature classes in two Massachusetts prisons. His poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Ibbetson Street, Drunk Monkeys, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, Superpresent Magazine, Molecule, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, The Rest of the Way, was released by Finishing Line Press in August 2022.  His website is www.TomLaughlinPoet.com