Join three Hudson Valley poets for a reading of recent writing that will make you laugh, break your heart, and piece it back together again. 

Catherine Arra lives in the Hudson Valley. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks. A former English and writing teacher, Cathy now facilitates local writing groups. Recent work appears in The Ekphrastic Review, Eclectica Magazine, Litbreak, New Verse News, Poetry Super Highway, and Rat’s Ass Review. You can find her at www.catherinearra.com

 Tina Barry’s third full-length collection I Tell Henrietta, with art by Kristin Flynn, was published by Aim Higher, Inc. in August 2024. Tina has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies, including Rattle, Verse Daily and The Best Small Fictions. She is a teaching artist at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com. Find her at TinaBarryWriter.com.

 Lissa Kiernan is the multiple award-winning author of two books of poetryThe Whispering Wall, 2023 & Two Faint Lines in the Violet, 2014 and one of proseGlass Needles & Goose Quills, 2017. She founded and directs The Poetry Barn, a pollinator habitat for poetry and AIM Higher, a nonprofit publisher. She holds her MFA from Stonecoast, University of Southern Maine, and her MA from The New School in New York City. She lives with her husband, Chris Abramides, in the Catskills near the Ashokan Reservoir Spillway. More at lissakiernan.com.