Ay: The Book Launch

Celebrate Joan Houlihan’s book launch
Ay, Sunday, October 27 at 3:00 p.m. Ms Houlihan is one of 40 authors and 26
events celebrating the written and spoken word. This free two week event is
sponsored by the 2013 Concord Festival of Authors in conjunction with The
Concord Poetry Center.

Joan
Houlihan is the author of four books of poetry: The Us, named a must-read of
2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book, The Mending Worm, winner of the
Green Rose Award from New Issues Press, Hand-Held Executions: Poems and Essays,
and Ay. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston
Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review and Gettysburg Review, and
anthologized in the Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and The Book of
Irish-American Poetry: Eighteenth Century to the Present.

She is contributing
editor for the Contemporary Poetry Review and author of Boston Comment, a
series of critical essays on contemporary American poetry. Founder and Director
of the Concord Poetry Center and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference,
Houlihan has taught at Columbia University, Emerson College and Clark
University. She is currently on the faculty of Lesley University’s
Low-Residency MFA Program in Cambridge.