PSNH Open Mic with Headliner Matthew E. Henry @ Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord

Join the Poetry Society of New Hampshire for an afternoon of verse! Headliner this month is Matthew E, Henry.

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the full length collections The Colored Page (Sundress Publications, 2022) and The Third Renunciation (NYQ Books, 2023), and the chapbooks Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020), and said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions, forthcoming). He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes. MEH’s poetry and prose appears or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Bending Genres, The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Pangyrus, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Relief Journal, Shenandoah, Solstice, Spiritus, The Windhover, The Worcester Review, and Zone 3 among others. He is an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes and presents at schools and conferences about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com