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Join us to hear poetry from two of the North Shore’s most buzzed-about young poets: Amanda Cook of Gloucester, and D. Eric Parkison of Lynn.
D. Eric Parkison received his MA in English from the University of Rochester and his MFA in Poetry from Boston University. His chapbook, No Arcadia, was published in the fall of 2020. The Massachusetts Cultural Council awarded him a 2022 Artist’s Grant in poetry. He lives in Lynn, MA. www.deparkison.com
Amanda Cook is becoming a private person. Her dishes are done more days than not, but the floor is not swept as often as it should be. She makes a mean garlic scape pesto. On Monday nights she is an invasive backup singer. She is much better at starting than finishing, and is fine with that.
Amanda Cook lives and writes in Gloucester with her husband James and children Ais and Sam. She is currently working on a poem-by-poem reaction to Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems, which is being serialized in the annual spoKe. Her book Ironstone Whirlygig was published by Bootstrap Press in 2018.
Amanda Cook hates writing biographies. It is hard enough to write poems.
Amanda Cook, formerly known as Amanda Porter, won’t tell you most of her secrets, but she’ll let you know they are there. She can do a lot of things but not without a deadline.
I have two big hands and a heart pumping blood and 1967 Colt .45 with a busted safety catch. Those are Mountain Goats lyrics. Not good ones. That’s the problem with writing things down.
Amanda Cook spent eight years at the Gloucester Writers Center helping people find their voices. She is a better listener than editor.
Amanda Cook is more serious than this biography implies. Still all of it is true.