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IAWA-BOSTON Presents:

Casey Lynn Roland and J.D. Scrimgeour

and open mic

Saturday, March 21, 2026, at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

6-7:30 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free

Casey Lynn Roland is a writer, artist, and maker based on the North Shore of Massachusetts. If the House is Inclined to Collapse is her first full length poetry publication, conceptualized during her time at the University of New Hampshire, where she earned an MFA in Poetry in 2020. Her work has previously appeared in Plainsongs, Red Ogre Review, Rougarou Journal, and West Trade Review among others.

J.D. Scrimgeour is the inaugural poet laureate of Salem, Massachusetts, and the author of six books of poetry, including Small, Rectangular, Reflected World. Scrimgeour’s second book of nonfiction, Themes for English B: A Professor’s Education In & Out of Class won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. His most recent book is Poet in High Street Park: Prose & Poetry for Modern Salem, which contains three decades of his writing about the city.

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