Join former Poet Laureates Lisa Titus, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, and Mark Blackford, with Bill Fellenberg, Liz Huntington, Amy Milin, and Isabel Braverman for a poetry reading and chat.

This is a free event. Brunch will be available for purchase but is not required.

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Lisa Titus (formerly Lisa Caloro) is a bartender and writing professor.  Her first book of poetry, First Time, Every Time was a finalist for the Brick Road Poetry Contest (published December 2023). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Sullivan County, NY; and her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. 

A graduate of Vassar College, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle received an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop as well as a doctoral degree in nineteenth-century American literature from the University of Iowa. She also holds MAs from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and New York University. In addition to scholarly publications, her poetry has appeared in many journals. Her chapbook, Black Wick: Selected Elegies was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest. Chosen as the 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press, Black Wick: Selected Elegies was published in 2021. Kennedy-Nolle was winner of the New Ohio Review’s 2021 creative writing contest. “Not Waving” was chosen as a 2025 finalist for the Lighthouse and for Long Leaf Presses respectively, a 2021 finalist for the Black Lawrence Press’s St. Lawrence Book Award, a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the University of Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, and a 2022 semifinalist for the Two Sylvias Press’ Wilder Prize and for the Brick Road Poetry Contest. Appointed the Poet Laureate of Sullivan County for 2022-2024, she lives and teaches in New York. Kennedy-Nolle was awarded a Poet Laureate Fellowship for 2023-2024 from the Academy of American Poets.