Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Children's Activity Room — 129 Main St., Concord, MA
Join the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library for an in-person afternoon with poets Nate Klug and Catherine Stearns who will read and engage in a Q & A about their inspirations and craft. Nate Klug reads from his collection, Hosts and Guests: poems . Klug is a poet and the author of Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil's Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013), Anyone (Chicago, 2015), and Hosts and Guests (Princeton, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Nation , The New York Review of Books , Best American Poetry , and elsewhere. His writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House, MacDowell, and the Poetry Foundation. A Congregationalist minister, he works at the First Parish in Lincoln and lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Catherine Stearns holds an MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a Ph. D. in American Literature from Brandeis University. Her first book, The Transparency of Skin (New Rivers Press), was selected as a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards, and a later chapbook, Then & Again , was published by the regional book-arts press, Slate Roof . Her most recent collection, Out Toward Morning , was released…