Fall Reading Series: Mike Perrow & Brian Burt
Thursday, November 10 @ 7 PM
126 East Main Street
Free & open to all
Parking available nearby on Chapel Street and at the North Shore Arts Association
Join us for poet and Magnolia resident Mike Perrow and Concord’s Brian Burt in their first-ever readings at the GWC!
Mike Perrow grew up in rural southern Virginia, attended the College of William and Mary, then received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His poems have been published by The Boston Review, Shenandoah Review, Volt, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, storySouth, Willow Springs Review, The William and Mary Review, and elsewhere. He was the winner of Boston Review’s eighth annual poetry prize, judged by Mark Strand. His collection Five Sequencees for the Country at Night was published in 2018 by BlazeVox.
Photographer, technical writer, bicycling aficionado, Nordic ski enthusiast, and dog lover, Brian Burt is the author of two books of poems: Past Continuous (2015) and Black Dog Day (2022). Poet and editor Kirun Kapur has praised Black Dog Day as “a book of modern pastorals, reminding us that even in the time of iPhones and plagues, the land and the word can still replenish the spirit.” Past Continuous was described by critic Sven Birkerts as “redemptive” with poems “conveying their intelligence through clarity and the felt rightness of their every small decision.” Burt’s poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including The Independent, The Drum, FUSION, The Hiram Poetry Review, and The Spoon River Quarterly. He is a recipient of the Michael R. Gutterman Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the New American Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with his family plus two black cats and a big black dog.