AMESBURY — The J. G. Whittier Home & Museum’s monthly poetry reading event takes place Wednesday, July 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. outside the iconic Friend Street house. The evening features reading by two poets plus an open mic section.
Jack Giaour is the author of “Hunting the Bugs,” winner of Bateau Press’s 2024 BOOM Contest. When Jack isn’t writing, he works as a data inputter for a steel company in Massachusetts, taking chaos and turning it into something efficient and meaningful. He originally came to poetry as a musician, not a writer, and his masterful emphasis on sound and rhythm is apparent within his works.
J.D. Debris is a poet, fiction writer, and musician. He is the author of “The Scorpion’s Question Mark” (Autumn House Press, 2023), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.
He was a Goldwater Fellow at New York University, where he earned his master’s of fine arts. His work has received further awards from DISQUIET, Mass Poetry, Narrative, and Ploughshares. He is a visiting lecturer at Endicott College and Salem State University in Massachusetts.
The event is free and open to the public. It will also be broadcast via Zoom. There is no need to register for the in-person reading. Bring a poem for the open mic.