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Please join us for a reading and conversation with Lily Poetry Review Book authors!
TOMMY ARCHULETA’s most recently his work has appeared in the New England Review, Laurel Review, Lily Poetry Review, The Cortland Review, Guesthouse, and the Poem-a-Day series sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. His full-length debut collection of poems entitled, Susto, is forthcoming from The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University as a Mountain/West Poetry Series title in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives and writes on the Cochiti Reservation.
Born in Manatí, PR & raised in the North End of Springfield, MA, MARÍA LUISA ARROYO CRUZADO writes poems & essays that reflect the cultures & languages dynamically intersecting in her life experiences & imagination: American English, Puerto Rican Spanish, German, & Farsi, spoken in Iran. Her collections include Gathering Words: Recogiendo palabras (2008); two chapbooks Flight (2016), & Destierro Means More than Exile (2018); & her photo poem chapbook Landscapes (2023).
KELLY DUMAR is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry chapbooks, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March. Kelly’s poems and photos are published in a variety of literary journals. She teaches creative writing and runs Play Labs for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Reach her at kellydumar.com.
RICHARD HOFFMAN is the author of nine books, including five books of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of The Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; Noon until Night, which received the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry, and the newly published People Once Real. Hoffman is also author of the celebrated memoirs, Half the House and Love & Fury, along with the short story collection Interference, and most recently Remembering the Alchemists & other essays. He is Emeritus Writer in Residence at Emerson College and Nonfiction Editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
KAREEM TAYYAR’s most recent book, “Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems,” was recently released by Lily Poetry Review Books, and his work has appeared in literary journals including Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and North Dakota Quarterly. In 2022 he received the Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize, and in 2019 he was awarded with a Wurlitzer Poetry Fellowship.
MEGHAN STERLING (she, her, hers) lives in Maine. Her work has been nominated for a number of Pushcarts, is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Rhino Poetry, Nelle, and many others. These Few Seeds (Terrapin Books, 2021) was a Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Finalist. Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora (Harbor Editions), Comfort the Mourners (Everybody Press) and View from a Borrowed Field (Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize) are all forthcoming in 2023.
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