Oct 8: NAV Arts Manchester Presents Jennifer Militello and Tommy Twilite
Date/Time
Date(s) - October 8, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
The Bookery
Categories
Please join us Wednesday, October 8th at 5PM when Poet Laureate of New Hampshire Jennifer Militello and Tommy Twilite take the stage. Stick around for the open mic!
Jennifer Miletello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), which was called “emotionally resonant” by Publishers Weekly and “an incantatory homage to love” by the Times Literary Supplement. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Tommy Twilite is an old school troubadour of songs, poems and stories. He is a Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate, founder of the Florence Poets Society, and former editor of the Silkworm annual review. Tommy believes music and poetry can change the world. You can listen to his weekly radio show, The Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ valleyfreeradio.org. Tommy has published a full length collection, “Fifty Words for Rain, written several chapbooks and appeared in various journals and anthologies. Several albums of his music are available on Spotify and various other platforms.