Writer GennaRose Nethercott is an award-winning author of the book The Lumberjack’s Dove. Join us when Nethercott visits the Main Library for a reading and signing of her book on Friday, April 5, 2019, at 4 p.m. at the downtown Main Library. This event is free and open to the public; books will be for sale on site.
GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection "Modern Ballads", and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including BOMB, The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, and PANK, and she has been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, Art Farm Nebraska, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. A born Vermonter, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter.