Award-Winning Poet January Gill O’Neil to Read at MCC

As part of its Visiting Writers Series, Middlesex Community College will host award-winning poet January Gill O’Neil reading and discussing her work at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in the Federal Building Assembly Room, 33 Kearney Square, on the Lowell campus. The event is free and open to the public.

An assistant professor of English at Salem State University, O’Neil has published three books of poetry: “Underlife” (2009); “Misery Islands” (2014), winner of a Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, and the Massachusetts Book Award; and her newest, “Rewilding” (2018).

O’Neil’s work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Harvard Review, and other publications. In addition, she was featured in Poets & Writers magazine’s 2010 Inspiration issue as a debut poet.

Executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, O’Neil is also a board member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and poetry co-editor of the journal Solstice: A magazine of Diverse Voices. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

MCC’s Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement. For more information, call 978-656-3363 or email StudentEngagement@middlesex.mass.edu.

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