Original poetry readings by four local poets.

Natalia Redyk is a person of many passions, including poetry, writing, pottery & visual art, local advocacy and activism, and small-farming. Her work has appeared in Long Short Drift, Issue 1 and Cape Cod Review, Issue X. She lives in Eastham, MA and practices as a physical therapist in Orleans, where she also grows food and flowers to share on a plot at Putnam Farms.

Kaimi Rose Lum is a journalist and librarian whose writing has been published in Provincetown Arts magazine, The Provincetown Independent and The Provincetown Banner, where she was a reporter and editor for many years. Her poems have appeared on the Cape Cod Times poetry page and in the annual Mutual Muses exhibition of poetry and art at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, as well as in the ekphrastic show Poetic License at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She lives in Eastham and works at Snow Library in Orleans.  

Christine Jones lives in Orleans, MA where she and her husband can be found swimming in their shark mitigating wetsuits all year round. She’s the author of Now Calls Me Daughter and Girl Without a Shirt, also co-editor of the anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She’s the associate editor of Lily Poetry Review and co-founder of the Lily on the Cove Manuscript Clinic and Retreat. Her poetry can be found in numerous anthologies and journals in print and online. 

Elizabeth Bradfield’s seven books include SOFAR (forthcoming in August), which includes poems that first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Sun, and Orion;Interpretive Work, which won the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry; Toward Antarctica; and the co-created Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award and a ForeWord Indies Gold Medal.  Editor-in-chief of Broadsided and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Liz teaches at Brandeis University and works as a naturalist and field assistant at home on Cape Cod.  www.ebradfield.com