A Special Evening of Poetry – The Valley of the Poets; Merrimack Valley Poets and Poetry
6pm on Saturday January 18th in the NAHS Worden Theater
Featuring Matt Miller with Kate Hanson Foster and local Poets
All Invited! (no registration required)
You’re invited to an evening of poetry at the North Andover Historical Society on Saturday January 18, 2025 at 6:00PM.
Merrimack Valley is known as “Valley of the Poets” because of the great poets who made this area their home: Anne Bradstreet (North Andover), John Greenleaf Whittier (Haverhill and Amesbury), Robert Frost (Lawrence), Jack Kerouac(Lowell), and others.
Poetry tells the story of life through the centuries in the Merrimack Valley. It also tells the story of today. In addition to celebrating the greats from history, this evening will feature poets living and writing in the Merrimack Valley today.
The event will be hosted by Mark Bohrer, past Poet Laureate of North Andover.
The feature poet of the evening will be Matt Miller, born and raised in Lowell, author of the award winning "Tender the River" and other notable and award-winning books of poetry.
Also taking part in this special event will be poet Kate Hanson Foster, originally from Andover and who now lives in Groton. Other local poets also will be performing their poems about Merrimack Valley and New England.
Matt Miller Bio:
Matt W. Miller is the author of Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award.
Other books include The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and Cameo Diner.
He was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, and the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize.
A former Walter E Dakin Fellow and Wallace Stegner Fellow, Matt teaches and coaches at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
Kate Hanson Foster Bio:
Kate Hanson Foster’s collection of poems, Crow Funeral was published in March 2022 by EastOver Press. She is also the author of Mid Drift, a finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Harper Palate, Poet Lore, Salamander, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A recipient of the NEA Parent Fellowship through the Vermont Studio Center, she was born in Andover, and lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.