Poetry Reading featuring Katie Fuller and Fred Gerhard

Join us for a Poetry Reading with two local poets!

KATIE FULLER is a poet from Maine and teaches writing at Mount Wachusett Community College. She is also the author of the chapbooks Valve (DoubleCross Press) and The Greenwood Cemetery (Dancing Girl Press). Her first book, Careful, won the 2022 Anhinga Poetry Prize. Recent work can be found online at Prelude and The City of Boise’s Cultural Commission Archive Project.

FRED GERHARD’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Entropy Magazine, Friends Journal, Pif Magazine, and POETiCA REViEW. He is the author of Drifting to “Hello” (available through CW MARS) and the chapbook, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest for which his work is installed on the trails at the Cathedral in the Pines in Rindge, NH, and winner of Art on the Trails, 2024 in Southborough, MA. He is an editor for Quabbin Quills anthologies, and Smoky Quartz – An Online Journal of Literature and Art. As one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group he leads monthly poetry workshops and hosts open mics in Ashburnham, MA. Conversations with family and friends, and a tortoise named Twyla, are some of his favorite pastimes. Visit his virtual reading room at FredGerhard.com