Wheeling Tern

09/17/2025

Could this be you? Know any one in/near/on/about who fits?

08/02/2025

The newest volume of The Island Reader is hot off the presses! The 20th volume, which features the prose and artwork of island residents, focuses on "Island Time." You can request your copy on the Mission's website.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/ettk50Wabsg

04/02/2025

HAPPY POETRY MONTH.
Surprises await!
Thanks Portland Public Library. Displaying these works of local artists and writers in the window. You can still check them out.

04/02/2025

shout about it ... whisper ... find words that fill you up Happy Poetry Month, Amesbury Poet Laureate

Happy National Poetry Month!

Brought to you by:
Amesbury Poet Laureate,
Poet Laureate Support Committee
The Whittier Home

Amesbury Cultural Council
And more!

Please visit amesburyculturalcouncil.org/PoetryMonth for a full list of events. 🔗 Link in bio!

10/20/2024

Excited to be browsing the BBF this year, rather than stuck behind a a table. WILl bring books of course. Hope to get to this event!

Save the date! On October 26th, Joan Kwon Glass, Matthew Henry, Jennifer Martelli, Kevin McLellan & Anna V.Q. Ross will be presenting “Poetry as a Radical Act” from 11-12 at the Goethe-Institut during the Boston Book Festival, co-sponsored by Mass Poetry! 🔥♥️📚🍁🍂

10/14/2024

💕Thanks so much everyone for braving the rain last night...especially the brave musician and sound crew... our host who ran the gallery all summer and filled it with beautiful art... our publishing crew who came up through three states to run point on the book sales, book lovers who gushed, and appreciative audience under the tent! Thanks for launching this little book forward!

09/28/2024

Do you already know there are THREE (3!) Back-to Back Book Launches for 3 separate books, from 3 separate publishers, in the space of 3 weeks, for books born on Peaks Island?

#1: Cat Valente JUST launched Space Oddity (Book 2 of The Space Opera) from Simon & Schuster.

#2: Fred Fahey launches The Scoundrel's Son, from Goose River Press, THIS Tuesday, October 1, at 5th Maine at 7 O'clock. and...

#3: Anne Sibley O'Brien, Stacey Kors, and me are launching Peaks Season, from Wheeling Tern Books, Sunday Evening October 13 at The Crow’s Nest Gallery and Gathering Space 6–8 pm. Please SAVE THE DATE (s) and join us in celebration.

Links in comments to all three books.
(These & other arts and music events on peaks are listed at: peaksbeat.com)

08/21/2024

Look who's in the "Times" . . . Somerville Times that is. SO COOL! (Will be reading now... shhhh)

Recently, I was out in Amesbury, Ma. for a memorial reading for the late Poet Laureate of Amesbury, Lainie Senechal. The reading was on the grounds of the Whittier House. There I met poet Lisa Usani Phillips, the current Poet Laureate, and she told me she has a new book of poetry out titled Guest Pe...

08/21/2024

So many connections arise from releasing a really good book into the world! Bravo Lisa!

Last outdoor poetry reading of the season! The Whittier Home hosts Doug Holder, Co-President of the New England Poetry Club and founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, for a poetry reading in the garden.

When: Wed., Sept. 27, 5–7pm
Where: John Greenleaf Whittier Home, 86 Friend Street, Amesbury

Doug's reading will be followed by an open mic.

01/31/2024

Huzzah Lisa Usani Phillips! "You can now check out Guest People from Amesbury Public Library or any other library in the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.
Guest People is also for sale at www.etsy.com/shop/WheelingTernBooks
www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/
www.jabberwockybookshop.com/
www.waterstreetbooks.com/
workspacemanchester.com/
And! Coming in the spring to www.themonarchgardener.com/ too"

01/14/2024

~~ wonderful reading of poems, including some new for 2024, by Lisa Usani Phillips ... the zoom was full of joy and congratulations ... Holly Hartman got photos at the in-person! CONGRATS to the current poet laureate of Amesbury!! Look forward to more poetry events in Amesbury. 🌸

01/14/2024

Momentous hybrid event ... by Amesbury Cultural Council today

Join members of the Poet Laureate Support Committee, the Whittier Home Association, and more as we welcome Lisa Usani Phillips, Amesbury's new Poet Laureate! Lisa will be the fourth local poet to hold the position. We're so excited to see what exciting poetic events the next few years hold!

What:
The Inauguration of Amesbury's Fourth Poet Laureate, Lisa Usani Phillips

When:
Sunday, January 14th, 1pm

Where:
John Greenleaf Whittier Home, 86 Friend Street, Amesbury

The ceremony will include a poetry reading.