Jewish Poetry Salon

Featuring Meghan Sterling and Wendy Drexler

in Watertown

Join us on March 22, 2026, for a morning of Jewish poetry, featuring Meghan Sterling and Wendy Drexler!

DATE & TIME: Sunday, March 22, 2026, 10:30 AM

ADDRESS: Please RSVP at this Google Form to receive the address: https://tinyurl.com/bostonyetzirah 

Boston Area Yetzirah Salons feature local Jewish poets who will read original work and participate in a Q&A at a private home. We welcome poetry lovers of all traditions. 

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Harvest of What Remains, received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize and will be published in February 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She was awarded the 2025 E.E. Cummings Prize from the New England Poetry Club, served as poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018–2023, and as programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club from 2016–2024. She currently serves on the Club’s advisory board.

Meghan Sterling (she/her/hers) is a working mother living in Maine whose poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Rhino Poetry, Hunger Mountain, and many other journals. Her collections are These Few Seeds (Terrapin Books), Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora (Harbor Editions), Comfort the Mourners (Everybody Press) and View from a Borrowed Field (Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize). You Are Here to Break Apart (Lily Poetry Review Press), came out in April 2025 and Sick Letters from the Lovebed (Harbor Editions) is forthcoming in 2026. She was named Poet Laureate of the city of Gardiner, Maine in August, 2025. Read her work at meghansterling.com.

This event is inspired by Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, the first national literary organization dedicated to fostering and supporting a community space for Jewish poets, nourishing writers and readers of Jewish poetry now and for generations to come.

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