Virtual Thirsty Lab featuring Steven Ratiner

The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, MA, continues to meet virtually. Join us on Tuesday October 26th VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM with our featured reader, Steven Ratiner.

STEVEN RATINER is the author of GRIEF’S APOSTROPHE, published by Beltway Editions in 2025.
He’s also published three poetry chapbooks, a collection of poetry interviews, and appeared in
several anthologies. His work has been featured in scores of journals in America and abroad,
including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, Vox Populi, QRLS
(Singapore), and Poetry Australia––and been translated into Mandarin, Spanish, Ukrainian, and
Hebrew. He’s also written poetry criticism for The Washington Post, The Christian Science
Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other journals. GIVING THEIR WORD –
Conversations with Contemporary Poets was reissued in a paperback edition (University of
Massachusetts Press). He is Poet Laureate Emeritus for Arlington, Massachusetts, and was
elected in 2024 as President of the New England Poetry Club, one of the oldest literary
associations in America. Now, well into its seventh year, his weekly Red Letter Poems features
a diverse range of poets, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices in
contemporary poetry (stevenratiner.com).

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