Join us for a poetry reading from local poet Ann Taylor.

Horn Pond: The Way I See It is a collection of poems influenced by one New England pond, just an easy walk from where I grew up and now live again, but also a place for me with bottomless depths, long memories, and wide recognitions far beyond this simple location. Horn Pond is not just a whale-shaped figure on the local map, nor simply a source of childhood memories. It is a universe unto itself.

As one early poem in the collection asks:

Horn Pond is prepared to teach.
What might it have to say for itself
and for a writer eager to listen?

The aim for this collection has been both to listen and to share.

Registration is requested, but not required.

About Ann Taylor
A long-time Professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, Ann Taylor has written two books on college composition, academic and free-lance essays, and a collection of personal essays, Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing. Her first poetry book, The River Within, won first prize in the 2011 Cathlamet Poetry competition at Ravenna Press. A chapbook, Bound Each to Each, was published in 2013. Her collection, Héloïse and Abélard: the Exquisite Truth, published in 2018, is based on the twelfth-century story of their lives. Her collection of poetry, Sortings, was published in 2020 by Dos Madres Press, and her most recent collection, Looking After: Poems, was published in 2024, also by Dos Madres Press. Her most recent collection focuses on Horn Pond in Woburn, Massachusetts.