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Since 1982 poets have been gathering at the home of Barbara Helfgott Hyett in Brookline, Massachusetts to critique one another's new work and to study contemporary poetry. Each weekly session provides intensive critical analysis in a supportive atmosphere as poets work towards finely honed, completed poems. The workshops also function as a publishing network for its members who have published hundreds of poems, produced and published twenty-seven books, and won various awards and fellowships. The workshop also conducts regular public readings which showcase its members. Please visit the Workshop website at www.PoemWorks.com

The Workshop for Publishing Poets is writing abroad in Trinity, Newfoundland. Eight poets will read their work for the public.

Please come hear the poetry of:
Barbara Helfgott Hyett, Ayelet Amittay, Debi Ellman, Emily Ferrara, Sandy Weisman, Allan West, Jeanette Winthrop, Margot Wizansky

Barbara Helfgott Hyett is the author of In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, Natural Law, The Double Reckoning of Christopher Columbus, and The Tracks We Leave: Poems on Endangered Wildlife. Her poems have appeared in dozens of magazines including The Nation, The New Republic, and The Partisan Review. A professor, editor, and poet-in-the-schools, she taught Literature and Writing at MIT and Boston University, where she won the Sproat Award for Excellence in Teaching English. Barbara Helfgott Hyett is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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