Gallery of Readers presents a monthly reading. Free and open to the public.

This month's readers: Jonathan Wright and Eileen Kennedy.

This event will be livestreamed on the Forbes Library YouTube channel; click here to view.

About the readers:

Jonathan A. Wright of Northampton, a 1974 graduate of Hampshire College, is the retired founder of Wright Builders Inc. His poetry collections include After the Rain (Gallery of Readers Press 2014) and Season of Dreams (Brook Hollow Press 2017), and four chapbooks. Living Building Makers was released by Ecotone Publishing in 2019. Half a World Away, consisting of recovered and recreated childhood world travel journal entries from the 1960s, is newly released! Jonathan writes regularly, and consults on housing, sustainability and climate issues around the region. He coaches sculling and makes furniture using regional materials.

Eileen P. Kennedy is the author of two collections of poetry: Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards, and Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press, 2021) which Literary Titan has described as “emotionally-charged poetry that explores life with observant poems that will appeal to anyone who loves inspired poetry.” It was a finalist for the International Book Awards in General Poetry.  She taught on the faculty of the City University of New York. She lives in Amherst, MA with the ghost of Emily Dickinson. More at EileenPKennedy.com.