Join us for an intimate evening enjoying light refreshments while listening to poems and engaging in rich conversation around the arts and literature. The John Hay Estate at the Fells is known for its historic beauty. The Veranda overlooking the gardens and views of Lake Sunapee provides the perfect atmosphere for an evening of poetry. Spend time with other poets and lovers of poetry as New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate, Jennifer Militello discusses her own poems and the gift of New Hampshire’s literary landscape. Space is limited so sign up soon.

Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), which was called “emotionally resonant” by Publishers Weekly and “an incantatory homage to love” by the Times Literary Supplement. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.