The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present
Poetry At The Library
Nate Klug & Catherine Stearns
Sunday, October 24 at 2:00 PM
Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main St.
Join us 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.
CFA 2026 POETRY PANELISTS
Nate Klug
Nate Klug reads from his collection, Hosts and Guests: poems.
Nate 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
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 this fall by Grid Press. She taught writing and literature for many years at Belmont Hill School, where she headed the English Department, and was Writer-in Residence at the Roxbury Latin School before she retired.
She and her husband, Richard Klug, live in South Natick, Massachusetts.
