Literary Firsts

What a night last Monday was.

Anthony D’Aries read about teaching in prisons and building Boston and Jack Nicholson. Michael Thurston read about cat violence, among other things. Danielle Jones-Pruett read about feathers and blush and bicycles. And Sarah Sweeney read about picking up her life and moving it, about falling in and out of love, about tension and release.

Watch the videos here.

See the photos here:

Anthony D’Aries reads an essay

Michael Thurston reads short fiction

Danielle Jones-Pruett reads poetry

Sarah Sweeney reads her confessional tale

Thanks to Anthony, Michael, Danielle, and Sarah for reading, thanks to Randolph Pfaff for taking photos and videos, and thanks to everyone who came out to listen!

Danielle Jones-Pruett is best served warm.

Danielle Jones-Pruett is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at The University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DMQ Review, Midway Journal, Verse Daily, and others. She was the winner of the 2011 Vella Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Mary Doyle Curran scholarship. She lives in Salem with her husband and two sons.

Danielle is the poet for the January 21 reading.

January 21, 2013!

Anthony D’Aries! Danielle Jones-Pruett! Sarah Sweeney! Michael Thurston!

BE THERE.