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Esteemed poet Charles Coe will read from his recent publication Charles Coe: New and Selected Works, which includes twenty new poems and twenty poems each from his first four collections of poetry.

"Charles Coe's poems achieve the remarkable quality of being simultaneously sturdy and wistful. They illuminate the material realities of our lives, and the ephemerality of them—showing us what makes us vulnerable and ultimately human."

- Danielle Legros Georges, former Poet Laureate, City of Boston

This event is free, and books will be available for purchase. This event is proudly co-sponsored by Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library.

.Charles Coe is the author of five books of poetry, all published by Leapfrog Press: Picnic on the Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Memento Mori, Purgatory Road (Winner of a 2023 Boston Book Authors Notable Book Award) and Charles Coe: New and Selected Works. He is also author of Spin Cycles, a novella published by Gemma Media that depicts the life of a homeless man on the streets of Boston.

Charles has been awarded fellowships by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club and has been designated a “Literary Light” by the Associates of the Boston Public Library. He is adjunct professor of English at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where he teaches in both MFA writing programs.