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The Word Barn is thrilled to present these voices as part of the Silo Series on Sunday, October 15 at 4pm in The Word Barn: poets Jason Tandon, Betsy Sholl and Megan Leonard.
$5 suggested donation | Doors at 3:30pm | Reading at 4:00
ABOUT BETSY SHOLL
Betsy Sholl’s tenth collection of poetry is As If a Song Could Save You (University of Wisconsin Press in fall of 2022). Her ninth collection of poetry is House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin, 2019), winner of the Four Lakes Prize. Other awards include a Maine Book Award for Poetry, The Felix Pollak Prize, the AWP Prize for Poetry. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts and served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011. She was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award from Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
ABOUT MEGAN LEONARD
Megan Leonard is the author of book of lullabies (Milk & Cake Press, 2020) and Larkspur Queen (Nightingale & Sparrow Press, 2023). Her digital chapbook, where the body ends, is available online through Platypus Press. Megan is the recipient of the Prospero Prize in poetry, the Puerto del Sol Prize, and the Ruth Forbes Eliot prize, and her poetry has appeared most recently in SWWIM Everyday, the Dodge, and Mom Egg Review. Meg is a faculty member at the Connors Writing Center at UNH in Durham, and she has been a writing mentor and instructor for over twenty years. She is a mental health and disability advocate, and she is a volunteer coordinator for Seacoast Family Promise, a local organization that provides shelter to families with children. Themes in her work include strange animal facts, chronic illness, fairy tales, and impossible imaginary landscapes. Meg lives in Portsmouth with her spouse, four young children, two cats, and a bearded dragon.
ABOUT JASON TANDON
Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, and Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among others. He teaches in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.