Ay: The Book Launch

Celebrate Joan Houlihan's book launch Ay, Sunday, October 27 at 3:00 p.m.
Ms Houlihan is one of 40 authors and 26 events celebrating the written and spoken word. This free two week event is sponsored by the 2013 Concord Festival of Authors in conjunction with The Concord Poetry Center.

Joan Houlihan is the author of four books of poetry: The Us, named a must-read of 2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book, The Mending Worm, winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press, Hand-Held Executions: Poems and Essays, and Ay. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review and Gettysburg Review, and anthologized in the Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and The Book of Irish-American Poetry: Eighteenth Century to the Present.

Ms. Houlihan has taught at Columbia University, Emerson College and Clark University. She is currently on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA Program in Cambridge.