Poetry Night at Willowdale

Celebrate Poetry Month with an evening of readings from four local poets. Whether you’re a longtime poetry lover or just curious, join us to discover new voices, connect with fellow readers, and kick off the August Sealey Challenge together.

Poet biographies

Elizabeth S. Wolf has published 6 books. Her latest is Parenting in the Age of Columbine (2025). Elizabeth has placed over 170 poems and received 4 Pushcart nominations. Did You Know? was a 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner. Rattle Summer 2022 featured her project with Prisoner Express. In 2023 Elizabeth taped readings at the White House, Supreme Court, and US Capitol with The Scheherazade Project. She was featured in Boston Literary Magazine in April 2026. Her work is on the moon with the Lunar Codex. Learn more at https://www.elizabethswolf.com/

Elisabeth Weiss has been a writing instructor for close to forty years. She’s taught in preschools, prisons, nursing homes, and to the intellectually disabled.  She’s published poems in London’s Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Paterson Poetry Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, the Lily Poetry Review, SWWIM, Mom Egg, and many other journals. Her chapbook, The Caretaker’s Lament, was published in 2016. Lis won the Talking Writing Hybrid Poetry Prize for 2016 and was a runner up in the 2013 Boston Review poetry contest and the 2023 Small Harbor Hybrid Chapbook Prize. Lis worked in New York City in publishing, ran a refugee resettlement organization and works summers in a house built by a shipping merchant in 1768 and is a North Shore local history buff. Please see more author information at http://www.elisabethaweiss.com/.

Catherine Fahey is a poet & librarian from Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of the chapbook The Roses that Bloom at the End of the World (Boston Accent Lit, 2018). Her work appears in Gargoyle, Corvid Queen, Coffin Bell, and other journals. She is part of 9×5, an anthology of 5 new voices by Only Human Press (2022). She is a librarian at Salem State University. You can read more of her work at www.magpiepoems.com

Carla Panciera was born on her family’s dairy farm in Westerly, Rhode Island. Her poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner, One of the Cimalores, Bordighera Press Award Winner, No Day, No Dusk, No Love and most recently, One Trail of Longing, Another of String (also Bordighera), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award.Her short story collection, Bewildered, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She is also the author of Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir.

Her work has appeared in numerous journals including the New England Review, Poetry, Spillway, Water~Stone Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Carla has received funding  from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She is the Assistant Poetry Editor for MomEgg Review.

A retired high school English teacher, Panciera lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

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