Middlesex Community College will host poet Jennifer Jean as part of the Visiting Writers Series. The event will take place at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1 at MCC’s Lowell Federal Building Assembly Room.
“The world needs more beauty and coherence – and more folks who embody these necessities,” Jean said. “Writing well is one way toward this important end. To write beautifully and coherently is to think beautifully and coherently.”
A faculty member at the Solstice MFA, Jean is a senior program manager at the Fine Arts Work Center and an organizer for the Her Story Is collective. She has received honors from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Women’s Federation for World Peace.
Jean’s latest book of poetry and translation is “Where Do You Live?” co-written and co-translated poems that are a correspondence in Arabic and English with Iraqi poet Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr. The the editor of the forthcoming anthology “Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Poetry by Arab Women” (Tupelo Press, 2026), her resource book “Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry” was published by Lily Books in 2021.
Her other books of poetry are “The Fool” (Big Table, 2013) “VOZ” (Lily Books, 2023); “The Archivist” (2011), and “In the War” (2010). Jean’s work appears in Poetry Magazine, Rattle Magazine, On the Seawall, The Common, the Los Angeles Review, on The Slowdown Podcast, and in the Academy of American Poets “Poem-a-Day” series.
The MCC Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement.
The event will take place on MCC’s Lowell Campus in the Federal Building, which is located at 50 Kearney Square in Lowell.