Poetry in the Garden

Join Poets Mary Newell, Heller Levinson, and Alison Granucci for a reading of their works in the beautiful outdoor gardens at the Desmond-Fish Public Library.

About the Poets:

Mary Newell
Mary Newell is the author of the poetry book ENTWINE (BlazeVox Press) as well as the poetry chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press) and Re-SURGE, poems in numerous journals and anthologies, and occasional essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and intermittent online classes. She lives in the Hudson Highlands of New York. Recording of an interview on ecopoetics with the Brooklyn Rail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIp-pbuSjM.
Writing website: https://manitoulive.wixsite.com/maryn

Heller Levinson
HELLER LEVINSON’s most recent books are QUERY CABOODLE, SHIFT GRISTLE (Black Widow Press, 2023), THE ABYSSAL RECITATIONS (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), VALVULAR ASH (BWP, 2024), QUERY CABOODLE 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), with CROSSFALL (BWP) slated for a spring 2025 release. His book, LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.”  Recent reviews:
The Wild Poetics of Questioning in Heller Levinson’s Work by Mohsen El Belasy
Levinson’s Quantum Foam by John Olson

Alison Granucci
Alison Granucci is a Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, photographer, and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, a literary speaker’s agency, the first in this country to represent poets, and upon retiring in 2020, began to write poetry herself. Alison’s work is published or forthcoming in RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, Pangyrus, Terrain.org, Connecticut River Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Great River Review, About Place Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, EcoTheo Review, The Dewdrop, Humana Obscura, and Earthshine, as well as the anthology Little By Little the Bird Builds its Nest. Her essay “Teacher Bird” was a nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a Journal of Literature and Art. In 2023, Alison was an Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale; and in 2022, she received the first annual Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York for her contributions to the world of poetry. Alison serves as a reader for The Rumpus and sits on the board of the Hellbenders Gathering of Poets. She is at work on her first collection of poems as well as co-editing an anthology of new bird writing with J. Drew Lanham.