Musician Sarah Swain and poets to celebrate Women's History Month this weekend in Hyannis
In honor of Women’s History Month, Voices of Poetry is hosting four poets and a musician for a presentation at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 11, at Bread & Roses Bookstore and Cafe, 302 Main St., Hyannis.
Featured poets are Kathleen Aguero, Eileen Cleary, Jeannette de Beauvoir and Krysten Hill. Music will be by singer and songwriter Sarah Swain.
“The event will be a benefit for Independence House, a domestic violence shelter in Hyannis. There is a suggested donation of $20, but no one will be denied admission due to lack or shortage of funds. Every cent collected will be donated to Independence House,” said Voices of Poetry founder Neil Silberblatt in a statement.
Voices of Poetry has presented more than 400 poetry events in the Northeast since poet and activist Silberblatt formed the group in 2012. Those events – which have featured Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winners and nominees, as well as beginners – have been at several venues, including Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Which artists will be at the Women's History Month event in Hyannis?
Kathleen Aguero, consulting poetry editor of “Kenyon Review,” has published several poetry collections, including “World Happiness Index” (Tiger Bark Books, 2022); “After That” (Tiger Bark Press, 2013) and “Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth” (Cervena Barva Press, 2008.) She teaches at Lasell College in Newton and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program. She also teaches Creative Writing for Caregivers Workshops in community and institutional settings.
Eileen Cleary is the author of “Child Ward of the Commonwealth” (Main Street Rag Press, 2019) and “2 a.m. with Keats” (Nixes Mate, 2021). Cleary founded and edits Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and curates the Lily Poetry Salon.
Jeannette de Beauvoir is a bestselling author of mysteries and historical fiction as well as a poet who lives and works in Provincetown. She was featured in WCAI’s Poetry Sunday, and is the 2020 recipient of the Outermost Poetry Contest national award judged by Marge Piercy. More at jeannettedebeauvoir.com.
Krysten Hill is the author of “How Her Spirit Got Out” (Aforementioned Productions, 2016), which received the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Recipient of the 2016 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award and 2020 Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship, she received her MFA in poetry from University of Massachusetts Boston, where she now teaches.
Sarah Swain has been touring on her own and as a supporting musician in various bands since 1995. She put out her first solo record “One Girl Town” in 2006. In 2012, she released “Every Little Bird,” which won Album of the Year at the Limelight Magazine Music Awards. The band’s latest album, “Sarah Swain & the Oh Boys,” was released in 2017. Swain founded Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival in 2012 and Cape Wellness Collaborative in 2014.
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