Local Poet Reading

Join three local poets as they read from their published works. 

Jim Zimmerman

Jim Zimmerman's writing appears in American Life in Poetry, Chicago Quarterly Review, Folio, Lumina, Nimrod, Pleiades, Rattle, Salamander, and Salt, among many other journals and anthologies.  Author of four published volumes of poetry - most recently “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen”, “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread”, and “Uncertainty” - he values his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative inspiration. 

Melissa Joplin Higley

Melissa Joplin Higley is the author of the poetry chapbooks First Father (Bottlecap Press) and We Shake & Seek (Origami Poems Project). Grand Prize winner of the 90th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Broadsided, Crab Orchard Review, the Hudson River Museum, The Penn Review, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. Melissa holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, edits book reviews for MER Literary, and serves as the poet laureate of Mamaroneck, NY. melissajoplinhigley.com.

Ellen Devlin

Ellen Devlin is the author of two chapbooks: Rita and Heavenly Bodies at the MET, both published by Ĉervená Barva Press. A full-length collection, The Light of Small Ones Blinking, was published by Broadstone Books in 2025. Her recent work has appeared in The Coachella Review, The Amethyst Review, Mom Egg Review, Rock Paper Poem, Beyond Words, and The Westchester Review Thimble, among others.
She lives in Irvington, NY with her husband Charles.