Poets January Gill O’Neil and Alan Feldman featured at CFPL

All are invited for An Afternoon with Award-winning Lyric Poets January Gill O’Neil and Alan Feldman on Sunday, December 9th at 3 pm, in the Concord Free Public Library’s Trustees’ Room. This free event, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, includes a Question and Answer session and book-signings with light refreshments.

O’Neil will read from her third collection, ReWilding (CavanKerry Press, 2018), that taps into what is wild and good in all of us through examining the external worlds of race and culture and the internal, personal worlds of family and desire.. She is also the author of Misery Islands (CavanKerry Press, 2014), winner of a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, and Underlife (CavanKerry Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. The executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, O’Neil is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University and a Board of Trustees’ member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). She lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts.

“What is good fortune?” asks Feldman in his Four Lakes Prize- winning collection, The Golden Coin (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) —and he answers this question in poems about youth, conflict, travel, family, love, and the joys and fears of getting old. Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Immortality (2016) and the 2004 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for A Sail to Great Island, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Yale Review, and others. Recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment of the Arts and The Massachusetts Artists Foundation, he is Professor Emeritus of English at Framingham State University. He lives in Framingham and in the summer, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Submitted by Glenn Mitchell, Programming for Poetry at the Library Series, Friends of the Concord Free Public Library