Catherine Tudish, Ivy Schweitzer, and Rena J. Mosteirin -- Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series

The beloved Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series is back, with another lineup of barnstorming readings by acclaimed authors on Thursdays throughout the month of July! Readings are hosted by the Canaan Town Library and take place at the historic Canaan Meetinghouse, on the corner of Canaan Street and Apple Blossom Road, across from the Canaan Street Beach. Refreshments will be served. On July 23, we welcome Catherine Tudish, Ivy Schweitzer, and Rena J. Mosteirin!Catherine Tudish is the author of the novel American Cream and the story collection
Tenney’s Landing. She has taught writing and literature at Harvard, Dartmouth, and the
Bread Loaf School of English. She lives in a village in central Vermont.Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ivy Schweitzer has lived for many years in Vermont and taught English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Her poetry has appeared, most recently, in Passager, Ritualwell, Tikkun, New Croton Review, Mississippi Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Mid-Atlantic Review and The New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners’ Anthology 2024. Dividing Rivers is her debut solo collection. For her collaborative work, visit her author page at sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/.Rena J. Mosteirin owns Left Bank Books and teaches poetry at Dartmouth College in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. She loves the formal language of poetry and sees many connections between the languages of computer programming and more traditional formal poetics. In learning to write programming code in Python (a computer language similar to Java and C++) Rena developed a software tool that helps poets create sestinas with a sort of end-word "map" and end-word "generator" the compliable code for this tool is itself a sestina. Check that out here.
Rena J. Mosteirin is a graduate of Dartmouth College (AB) and the Writing Seminars at Bennington College (MFA). Mosteirin's father is from Cuba and her mother's family is from Gottschee, a region of Slovenia. She is married to James E. Dobson and they live in Lyme, New Hampshire where they write books together and co-edit Bloodroot Literary Magazine.