The So and So Reading Series No. 5
Held at the Lily Pad, September 2006
The fifth installment of the series features Boston area high school teachers: Rob MacDonald, Michael Levine, and Chad Reynolds.
Order of Events:
00:00 Introduction by host and curator Chris Tonelli
2:04 Rob MacDonald
24:02 Michael Levine
44:27 Chad Reynolds
Although Rob MacDonald graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Mathematics, he spent most of his time there writing poetry. In 1997, he was named Connecticut State Student Poet, which encouraged him to later pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College. He's been teaching high school math and English for the past nine years, and is currently the head of the math department at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill.
Michael Levine has poems appearing and/or forthcoming in Natural Bridge, North American Review, Poet Lore, and 236. He currently teaches English at Gann Academy in Waltham, MA and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where he taught creative writing and won an Academy of American Poets Prize, and an MFA in Writing from Washington University, where he taught composition and poetry writing. Among other odd jobs: writing thank you letters for Washington University's chancellor, selling women's & men's shoes, working in the Illinois Department of Transportation Motor Pool, bagging groceries, & detassling corn. For what it's worth.
Chad Reynolds's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Swink, RealPoetik, Redivider, Washington Square, Meridian, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Gann Academy in Waltham and lives in Somerville with his wife.
