Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation

Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign.

Ellen’s first poetry collection, WHEN I WAS A GRATEFUL MAMMAL (Headmistress Press) is the 2025 winner of Sappho’s Prize in Poetry. She is the producer and host of “Poet Talk”, live on Thursdays at 6pm, on WMUA, 91.1 FM, streaming on wmua.org. It is also a podcast on Apple and Spotify. Poet Talk: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/poet-talk-on-wmua/id1844891690

Jan Freeman is the author of Hyena (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Simon Says (Paris Press/Wesleyan University Press), Blue Structure (Calypso Editions), a chapbook, Autumn Sequence (Paris Press), and a new manuscript, The Odyssey of Yes and No. She is a 2026 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and many fellowships from MacDowell, Moulin a Nef, the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and recently appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, North American Review, The Patterson Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Salamander, Tar River, and other publications. She directs the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats. www.janfreeman.net.