The book launch for Promises to Keep is on Thursday, April 23rd 7-8:30pm at the Main Branch of the Thomas Crane Library.
Guest readers: Linda Carney-Goodrich and Anne Elezabeth Pluto!
Readings will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Copies will be available for purchase (or you can order one now).
Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her first book of poetry, Dot Girl (Nixes Mate, 2024) was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall through the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program and have been published in Solstice Literary Magazine, Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Literary Mama, Muddy River, Anti-Heroin Chic, Amethyst Review, Gyroscope Review and more. She is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Arts Center and offers classes, tutoring, and educational consulting through her business, Home Scholars of Boston. Linda is a recent recipient of an Open Doors Residency at Croma Space, a writing residency at T.S. Eliot House, and an artist opportunity grant from the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
Anne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn, NY before it was cool. She is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review and Nixes Mate Books. She has two full-length collections The Deepest Part of Dark, Unlikely Stories Press, NOLA (2020), and How Many Miles to Babylon?, Lily Books, (2023).