I will be reading (virtually) with Denise Bergman for the Lily Poetry Salon on September 17, at 7 p.m. I’ll read some new poems and some from Works on Paper, and Denise will read new poems as well as poems from her recent collection, The Shape of the Keyhole. Please contact me via email for...

Register for the event! RSVP to let us know you’re coming! RSVPs don’t guarantee a seat, but you’ll be alerted to important details about the program, including safety requirements, cancellations, and book signing updates. Reserve a book! Copies of Jennifer Barber’s collection Works on Paper will be available for purchase at the event, but you can ensure that...

Live at Brookline Booksmith! The Changing of the Bard Monday, October 18, 2021 – 07:00PM ET REGISTER Event address: 279 Harvard Street Coolidge Corner Brookline, MA 02446-2908

Lloyd Schwartz and Alondra Bobadilla: A Virtual Poetry Reading via the Public Library in Brookline, hosted by Brookline poet laureate Jennifer Barber: Saturday, February 19th, 2 p.m. EST. Register via the link below: https://www.brooklinelibrary.org/events/event/virtual-poetry-reading/

Cambridge, Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Monday, March 28th, 8-9 p.m., with Joshua Weiner. https://ccae.org/happenings/events/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-jenny-barber-and-joshua-weiner    

Now in-person: Rozzie Reads: Thursday, April 21st, Jennifer Barber & Charles Coe, 6:45 p.m. At the Square Root Cafe, 2 Corinth Street, Roslindale. Open mic to follow.  

Brookline, Brookline Booksmith: Thursday, April 28th, 7 p.m.: 4 x 4 reading for National Poetry Month with Danielle Legros Georges, George Kalogeris, and Fred Marchant. https://poetry4x4-brookline-2022.eventbrite.com

Jennifer Barber and George Kalogeris will be reading their poetry. They will be followed by an open mike. This is a virtual reading via Zoom; email Jennifer Barber a few days prior to the reading if you would like to receive the link.

Five Boston-area poets gather to share poems from the anthology Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems, celebrating nature and seasons. These poets will examine what trees might be saying to us and how we might listen and guard the forests around us. Jennifer Barber (The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made), Charles Coe (All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents), Martha Collins (Because...

7 p.m. on Friday, November 11th, at the Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. MC'd by Sandee Storey. Free and open to the public.

At the Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (one block from the Park Street T station).

Friday, May 5th, 1 to 2 p.m. Five poets whose collections have been published by the Washington, D.C.-based Word Works will read poems that explore the physical and metaphysical presence of birds. Their poems observe and describe different species, with their various behaviors, and consider birds as harbingers, emissaries, and omens, as figures of hope,...