Artists Who Are Poets/Poets Who Are Artists Reading

Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney’s poems have appeared in Diner, Worcester Review, Journal of Irish Literature, and elsewhere, and won an Academy of Poets Prize, a Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize, and other awards. Her chapbook, Hand Me Down (Finishing Line, 2013), was a semifinalist in the New Women’s Voices Competition. She is now collaborating with composer Matthew Jaskot on Close and Apart, a song cycle about tragedy, transplantation, and hope, and directing Mapping Worcester in Poetry, an initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation with the Worcester County Poetry Association as community partner.