Arts Collaborative Medford invites you to a Poetry Salon hosted by Gary Roberts, a poet and co-founder of ACM, as part of the collaborative’s literary arts initiative. Learn about modern poetry with short poems from some of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century. Featured this evening will be two allied yet distinct approaches to turning raw history in humane, unflinching art: the Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Anna Swir (in English translation). Join the conversation about this vivid, highly relevant poetry of witness and resilience.

This free salon-style series welcomes everyone, whether you’re well-versed in poetry or simply curious, for a relaxed, open conversation about how poetry can reflect, resist, and reimagine the world around us. Registration through the ACM website is requested, but not required.