Gloucester Writers Center hosts a Poetry Reading Kevin Gallagher + Matthew Henry

Gloucester Writers Center hosts a Poetry Reading Kevin Gallagher + Matthew Henry, Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7 – 9 PM at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck.

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of multiple collections, including Teaching While Black, the Colored page, and The Third Renunciation. He
is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes. MEH’s an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com.

Kevin Gallagher is a poet, publisher, and political economist living in Greater Boston with his family and Rexroth, the family German Shephard. The former Gloucester resident’s latest book is And Yet It Moves (MadHat). Recent books are The Wild Goose (Loom), Radio Plays (Dos Madres) and Loom (MadHat). Gallagher edits spoKe,

a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a Professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center.