Reading with Carey Salerno
Join New England College for a reading by Carey Salerno, the 2026 Elizabeth Yates McGreal Visiting Alumni for NEC’s MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: Sunday, July 12
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: John Lyons Center Learning Commons, 55 Depot Hill Road, Henniker, NH
Admission: FREE and open to the public
Carey Salerno serves as the executive director and publisher of Alice James Books where she has been dedicated to broadening the spectrum of the American poetic voice since 2008. She is the author of The Hungriest Stars (2025), Tributary (2021), Shelter (2009), and a co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (2013). She is the recipient of a 2025 Pushcart Prize and a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Council. Salerno serves as co-chair for LitNet: The Literary Network and teaches publishing arts and poetry writing for the University of Maine.
She is a frequent guest of writing programs, conferences, and festivals where she conducts editorial consultations and delivers talks on publishing arts, editing, poetry, manuscript compilation, and other topics. You can find her essays and poems—as well as articles and interviews regarding her literary and publishing work—in print and online, including NPR, Poets & Writers, and American Poetry Review.
