Poets at Large returns to The Vanilla Bean Café with the voices of two Massachusetts poets, Carol Hobbs and Miriam O’Neal. Hobbs is an educator whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United States and Canada. Her recent book New-found-land, available through Main Street Rag in North Carolina, received honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize with the NEPC, and a New England PEN Discovery Prize. Miriam O’Neal is the current Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA. Her work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and The Galway Review among many other magazines. Her poetry collections include We Start With What We’re Given (Kelsay Books, 2018), The Body Dialogues (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020), and The Half-Said Things (Nixes Mate Books, 2022) and she hosts Poetry the Art of Words, the longest continuously running poetry reading series in Massachusetts south of Boston.
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