The Alewife Poets

The Alewife Poets are a dynamic quartet of performers who take their name from the river that runs between Cambridge and Arlington, Massachusetts.  Founded in 1996 as a women’s writing group with the mission of supporting one another’s work, they have now become well-known as performers, both together and separately, and often read to benefit social or educational causes.  All four members are publishing poets.  Their work runs the gamut from narrative to lyric, making art out of the stuff of daily experience.

“What a wonderful group.” —Kathleen Aguero, poet, author of Thirsty Day

“They drew the biggest audience we’ve ever had.” —Elaine Laughlin, former director, Arlington Center for the Arts

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Jessie Brown

In addition to her two chapbooks, Lucky and What We Don't Know We Know, Jessie Brown’s poems have appeared in publications such as Full Bleed,  Minerva Rising, Friends Journal, and the Comstock Review.  A native of Massachusetts, she received her Master’s degree from the Stanford Writing Program. She leads poetry workshops for adults as well as teaching and performing in schools throughout the Boston area. 

Gayle Roby

Gayle Roby received her MFA from Warren Wilson College.  Her work has appeared in many journals, including Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Ohio Review and The Missouri Review.  A teacher of English to speakers of other languages, she lives in Arlington with her husband and son.

Anna Michaud

Anna Michaud's poetry has appeared in publications as diverse as Peacework, The Lunar Calendar, Boston University Alumni Poetry Center Journal, and In Women's Image. She has been recognized in several competitions, including the Monadnock Writers Group New England Regional Poetry Contest, and Northeastern University’s U.C. Writing Competition, which she won for poetry.  Her work has also been dramatized in Through the Mirror with the Mass. Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy. She lives in Provincetown.    

Susan Lloyd
McGarry

Susan Lloyd McGarry has published and performed in Oregon, London, and her native Massachusetts. Her recent poetry has appeared in Explorations, while other work has been anthologized in The Poetry of Peace, Capra Press and Beyond Raised Voices.  She has studied with Paul Muldoon and David Whyte.  She was a runner-up for the 2002 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award.