Literary Firsts

Monday night’s reading was such a great, varied collection of work. Carolyn, Alysia, and Rodney were a delight.

For those of you who missed it, photos and videos are below.

Thanks, as always, to Randolph Pfaff, for taking them.

Carolyn Zaikowski reads from her new novel manuscript.

Alysia Abbott reads a new essay.

Rodney Wittwer reads a wide breadth of poems, old and new.

Carissa Halston hosts and reads (but mainly listens).

Ladies, gents, readers, writers—thank you so much for being there.

The videos are here. The next reading is in April. I can’t wait to see you then.

Alysia Abbott. Carissa Halston. Rodney Wittwer. Carolyn Zaikowski.

7pm. Middlesex Lounge.

Be there, Boston.

The next Literary Firsts is only five weeks away!

Be there for Alysia Abbott, Rodney Wittwer, Carolyn Zaikowski, and me!

See you then!

Rodney Wittwer is a foregone conclusion.

Rodney Wittwer’s poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Barrow Street, DIAGRAM, The Literary Review, Memorious, and Ploughshares. In 2012, Red Hen Press published his first book of poems, Gone & Gone, and he also received an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He lives in West Medford, where he writes and works with his wife, a clothing designer.

Rodney is the poet for the January 20 reading.