Announcements

Our oldest child came at the tail end of a snowstorm so large even my OB was snowed in and unable to reach the hospital in time for his birth. We spent a day and a night cocooned on the … Read More

In 2014, I went on a peace delegation to Palestine where I witnessed the choke-hold of military occupation, and it fundamentally changed how I looked at my privilege–it was no longer just a concept I acknowledged, it was an injustice … Read More

    Salamander and Suffolk University faculty will be participating in the 2017 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Massachusetts, on May 5-7. Find us at these events: Small Press and Literary Fair: Saturday, May 6, 11AM-5PM Salamander will have a … Read More

Next week, at Suffolk, Thursday, April 6th, 7 p.m.: Mediterranean Night, a reading at the Poetry Center, Mildred Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston; entrance around the corner on Tremont Place. Olivia Kate Cerrone reading from The Hunger Saint; with … Read More

David Ferry will be reading his poems and translations at the Suffolk University Poetry Center on Thursday, March 30th, at 7 p.m. The Poetry Center is located at Suffolk’s Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (entrance around the … Read More

Yusef Komunyakaa at Suffolk University, January 26 and 27 Thursday, Jan. 26 10:50-12:15 a.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. 73 Tremont St., Boston. “Sorrow Songs” and African American Poetry 1-3 p.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. … Read More

Please save the date of Monday, January 2nd, 7 p.m. for the Round Table at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, featuring Salamander and Pangyrus. Fiction writer and memoirist Joan Wickersham, judge of our 2016 Salamander Fiction Contest, will … Read More

Salamander is so pleased to announce our 2017 nominations for the Pushcart Prize:   Poetry: “Abandoned Nest” by Angela Voras-Hills: Salamander #42 “Some Animal Poems for Children to Learn and Sing” by Dan Beachy-Quick: Salamander #42 “The Pages in August” … Read More

Poet Alan Shapiro, author of numerous acclaimed poetry collections, including Reel to Reel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Night of the Republic, a finalist for the National Book Award, will be reading at the Suffolk University Poetry Center … Read More

Please join us for a Salamander Reading at the Mass Poetry Festival, Sunday, May 1st, 10:15-11:15 a.m., featuring Beth Woodcome Platow, Simeon Berry, and Salamander’s poetry editor Valerie Duff Old Town Hall, 2nd fl, Derby Square, Salem, MA

DAVID FERRY will be reading on Monday, April 25, 2016, at 7 pm, in the Suffolk University Amenities Room, 73 Tremont Street, 1st floor, Boston (one block from the Park Street T) David Ferry’s most recent book of poems, Bewilderment … Read More