Poetry Society of New Hampshire: Julia Lisella and Kathleen Aguero

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023, 4:30-6pm

Join the Poetry Society of New Hampshire for an afternoon of verse! Their headlining poets this month are Julia Lisella and Kathleen Aguero. An open mic follows their readings.

Julia Lisella’s most recent collection, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press, 2022), was named a finalist in the Lauria/Frasca poetry prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Nimrod, Paterson Literary Review, VIA, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She also writes literary criticism, mainly about women writers, is a professor of English at Regis College in Massachusetts, and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association Literary Readings in Boston.

In addition to After That (Tiger Bark Press), Kathleen Aguero’s poetry collections include Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth (Cervena Barva Press), Daughter Of (Cedar Hill Books), The Real Weather (Hanging Loose), and Thirsty Day (Alice James Books). She has also co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press (A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare) and is consulting poetry editor of Solstice Literary Magazine. She is a winner of the 2012 Firman Houghton Award from the New England Poetry Club and a recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Elgin-Cox Foundation. She teaches the low-residency M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program. She also teaches Creative Writing for Caregivers Workshops in community and institutional settings.

Masks are strongly encouraged but no longer required for vaccinated attendees. We can’t predict the future course of the pandemic, so Gibson’s reserves the right to institute masking and/or vaccination rules for this event as circumstances dictate.  

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Event date: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 4:30pm
Event address: 
45 South Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
Our Lively Kingdom (Via Folios #158) By Julia Lisella Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781599541891
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bordighera Press - October 11th, 2022

Our Lively Kingdom is a poetry collection in four parts, navigating love, children, art, and death.


World Happiness Index By Kathleen Aguero Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9798985358704
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tiger Bark Press - March 15th, 2022

After That By Kathleen Aguero Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780986044502
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tiger Bark Press - October 15th, 2013

Poetry. Women's Studies. AFTER THAT addresses the complicated emotions and confusion in caring for parents with advanced dementia, while also examining the psyche of the caregiver--the former child--entering her own senior years.


The Real Weather By Kathleen Aguero Cover Image
$15.00
Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780914610465
Published: Hanging Loose Press - January 15th, 1987

Poems that are clear, calm and relentlessly in focus.