Wheeling Tern

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.

12/05/2023

Just couldn't be happier for the town of Amesbury! Looking forward to supporting the further adventures of their new Poet Laureate!

Amesbury names a new Poet Laureate! 📖 🪶

After a months-long search, the Poet Laureate Support Committee has elected Lisa Usani Phillips as Amesbury's fourth Poet Laureate, to serve a two-year term as our city's poetic ambassador and champion.

About Lisa:
A longtime writer and editor, Lisa edited textbooks for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson before becoming an instructor and marketing communications specialist for Crafters Quarters, a local fiber-arts studio. She has worked as a senior content editor at EBSCO Information Services in Ipswich since 2011. Her debut hybrid poetry collection, Guest People, was published by Wheeling Tern Books in October 2022.

For more info on Phillips and her work, please visit her author website, lisausaniphillips.com.

This means we must say goodbye (for now) to Ellie O'Leary, Poet Laureate 2020–2023. Amesbury thanks you for all of your creativity and hard work bringing poetry to our community! Follow Ellie's continuing escapades on her website, ellieoleary.com.

10/11/2023

Who's going to BBF? — in 3 days!
https://bostonbookfest.org/schedule/
We'll be at the tent for IIndependent Publishers of New Englandfrom 10 to 3. - come visit us in Copley Square across from the OLD BBoston Public LibraryWe'll have stickers, postcards, copies of Guest People ©2023 by LLisa Usani Phillips and broadsides of "Bittersweet" ready for you! ⏳📚📖📖📖📖📖📖📍

04/29/2023

What are you doing for the FINAL WEEKEND of POETRY MONTH?
We are excited that this weekend: . . .
• SATURDAY: ---> Lisa Usani Phillips is reading THIS afternoon with Enzo Silon Surin live and on zoom at the Five Ponds Creative Writing Festival https://fivepondsfestival.org/
• SUNDAY (and forever): ---> Peaks Beat produced and recorded Peaks Island's 2nd annual Poetry Month celebration! Broadcast by Peaks Island Radio Sunday at 8 am AND 8 pm, AND in the archives after that. https://peaksislandradio.com/
• NOW (and forever):---> Cary Memorial Library archived last week's Beautiful reading by Lisa Usani Phillips, Anna V.Q. Ross, and Jason Tandon, on their video channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjhcnCWbAk&t=5s

04/20/2023

Today's the day. Some of us on zoom. And some of us in person. Let us know if you'll be there. We're all looking forward to joining the Cary Memorial Library Hybrid poetry series tonight! Anna V. Q. Ross, Lisa Usani Phillips, and Jason Tandon, not necessarily in that order. 7 pm tonight! Thanks to everyone involved.
Get zoom link any time today:

04/18/2023

Reminder . . . it's Tuesday. And this hybrid event is Thursday eve at 7 pm at Cary Memorial Library in Lexington. You can----> register for the zoom link here.
https://carylibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/poetry-reading/

04/18/2023

Lisa Usani Phillips author of is on the schedule for Saturday afternoon. Events are hybrid; on zoom and in person. Registration is free and open to all. For the zoom link, register at the Festival website.

The Five Ponds Creative Writing Festival is right around the corner! Join us on April 29th, in person or on Zoom. For more information and to register, visit our website: https://fivepondsfestival.org/. We look forward to seeing you there!

04/13/2023

Schedule for Five Ponds Creative Writing Festival is up! (MANY hybrid events via Zoom and on site at Gordon College.) April 29, 2023
Among the list of Saturday Afternoon presenters? Poet Lisa Usani Phillips Reads at 2:55 pm. Contact them to register!
https://fivepondsfestival.org/home/schedule/

LISA USANI PHILLIPS
A Reading: Guest People
I will be reading poems from my debut hybrid collection, Guest People. The title comes from the English translation of Hakka, Han people who migrated within China over centuries and formed a distinct subculture. My mom comes from a Hakka family that emigrated from Guangdong to Thailand in the 1940s. She left Bangkok in the 1960s to go to college in the US, which is where she met my dad, an American of Dutch, English, German, and Irish descent. The collection, which Carolyn Oliver describes as “both an ache and a balm,” reflects a persistent, intergenerational sense of otherness, border crossings, and a longing for home.

About 2023 Schedule 2023 Speakers Contests 2023 Schedule 8:00-8:10 a.m. Coffee and Welcome 8:20-9:10 a.m. Session ONE—3 Concurrent Workshops with Heidi Horner or Melanie Brooks or Nick Maione 9:20-10:10 a.m. Session TWO—3 Concurrent Workshops with Matthew E. Henry or Denise Frame Harlan or Rob B...

04/05/2023

April is for MUD . . . and POETRY!
Come celebrate at the 2nd Annual: Island Poetry Share!
With Wheeling Tern Poets
THIS SAT. evening
April 8, at 7–8 pm
at Hedgehouse Barn, 97 Brackett Avenue, Peaks Island, ME 04108
Curated reading of poems by your neighbors who write and/or love poetry. Bring a friend.
~ Free Haiku-writing and zine-making take-aways. ~ Book signing and sale afterward. ~ Contest with prize(s) for best listening! ~ Enjoy refreshments by The Tasty Poems Project. ~ Co-sponsored by https://www.facebook.com/wheelingternbooks and Peaks Beat
Free evening with donations accepted.
Questions?
[photocredit: Cara Dolan]

03/21/2023

Happy Spring! April is Poetry Month and the poetry is Popping. JUST announced, hybrid poetry event April 20, by Cary Memorial Library in Lexington, Mass. Wheeling Tern poet Lisa Usani Phillips is snuggled in the middle of this showcase. You are all invited to join in, either in person, and/or listening from afar? . . .
----> You can register for the zoom link here. https://carylibrary.assabetinteractive.com/.../poetry.../

12/23/2022

Guest People, debut by Lisa Usani Phillips, 2022, is at www.etsy.com/shop/WheelingTernBooks