Season 31 of Monday Poets continues with another great evening of poetry at the Free Library.  Reading with us on October 20th will be:

Aja Beech

Aja Beech is an artist, author, and organizer whose work addresses equity, environmental justice, victims’ rights, and criminal justice reform. Her 2012 collaboration between murder victims’ families and death row inmates helped spur the current death penalty moratorium in Pennsylvania. Her writing appears in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Huffington Post, WHYY, The Nation, and more. Her latest poetry chapbook, Blood/Magic, is out now via Moonstone Arts.

Iain Haley Pollock

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections,Spit Back a Boy, Ghost, Like a Place, and All the Possible Bodies, published this week by Alice James Books. He has published individual poems in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The Progressive. Pollock’s work has received several honors including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY.