Midtown Reader is very excited to welcome poet GennaRose Nethercott for a special poetry workshop and reading. All are welcome to join us for a free poetry workshop from 5 PM to 6 PM. (No need to bring a poem--this is a generative workshop, so we will be creating original work in class). We will follow the workshop with a reading and performance (featuring an old-fashioned hand-crankie puppet!) and book signing beginning at 6:15 PM. Join us for the entire event, or for just the reading or the workshop.

GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT is the author of The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her other projects include A Ghost of Water (an ekphrastic collaboration with printmaker Susan Osgood) and the narrative song collection Modern Ballads. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, PANK, and elsewhere, and she has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris. She is currently a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow.

Nethercott tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter, and is the founder of the Traveling Poetry Emporium, a team of poets-for-hire. She holds a degree in poetry, theatre, and folklore from Hampshire College. A born Vermonter, she has lived in many cities across the US and Europe, but is always drawn back to the forest.