Concord Poetry at the Library Series

Acclaimed poets Nausheen Eusuf and Natalie Shapero will read in the Concord Poetry at the Library Series on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in the Concord Free Public Library's Trustees' Room (129 Main Street), followed by a Question and Answer period and book signings with light refreshments.

Born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nausheen Eusuf's debut collection, Not Elegy, But Eros (NYQ Books, 2017) covers a range of styles and themes – elegies, love poems, ars poetica, poems of witness, poems of wit and wordplay, poems set in Bangladesh, and poems set in the US. “Her poems are as hospitable to private sorrow as to public mourning over the violences suffered in her native Bangladesh. Yet her sense of the absurd keeps the book aloft, soaring on the helium of her wordplay," extolls poet Rosanna Warren. A PhD candidate in English at Boston University and a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, Eusuf's poetry has appeared in a number of prominent literary journals.

Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University and an editor at large of the Kenyon Review. Praised as “ a master of her craft”, she will read from her second collection, Hard Child (Copper Canyon, 2017), a book of poems “thought-provoking and sardonically expressive… musical and argumentative, deadly serious yet tinged with self-parody, evoking the spirit of Plath while remaining entirely its own.” Shapero holds degrees in creative writing and in law. She has worked as a litigation fellow with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and she has taught at Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and Columbus College of Art and Design. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Kenyon Review Fellowship, and a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award.

This free event is sponsored by The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. Submitted by Glenn Mitchell, Board Member, Friends of the CFPL