This program is supported in part by a grant from the Haverhill Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
Poet M.P. Carver of Salem, Mass., is headlining Wednesday night’s Haverhill River Bards poetry and open mic night.
Carver is the director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and teaches creative writing at Salem State University. Her poem “In Vitro” was named a finalist of the Connecticut River Review’s Experimental Poetry Contest in 2023. Her poem, “You & God & I,” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize in 2022. She has received financial support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation.
“We could not be more thrilled to welcome M.P. Carter as our featured poet this month,” said Creative Haverhill Director Erin Padilla.
The free poetry gathering is Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m., at HC Media Studio 101, 2 Merrimack St., Haverhill.
Padilla added local poets are encouraged to come prepared to read their own work.