Join us at Book Love for an evening featuring John Bonanni, John Hopkins, and Lisa J. Sullivan. Each poet will read about 12 minutes of their work and the evening will conclude with time to meet the poets and purchase signed copies of their work.
John Bonanni won the Donald Hall Award for Poetry for his first book of poems, retrovirology (Pitt Poetry Series). He founded and edits the Cape Cod Review. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast, and his literary criticism has been featured in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches on Cape Cod.
John Hopkins has been an English teacher for forty-three years. John’s poetry has appeared in Commonweal, Saint Anthony Messenger, The National Catholic Reporter, The Leaflet, Sr. Melannie Svoboda’s blog, “Sunflower Seeds,” The Catholic Poetry Room, The Amethyst Review, Ekstasis Magazine, and Father Timothy Joyce’s book Celtic Quest. For the past eight years, John has been a Benedictine Oblate affiliated with Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts. John has published three books of poetry: Celtic Nan, Make My Heart a Pomegranate, and With Caught Rain. You can reach John at brotherjohnnyhop@gmail.com.
Lisa J. Sullivan is a Massachusetts native who holds an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, where she was a Kurt Brown Memorial Fellow. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in The Comstock Review, Evening Street Review, The Arts Fuse, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. She was the United States winner of The Poetry Project–Ireland in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets and was an Adrian Tinsley Program Creative Grant recipient. Lisa is the Art Editor for Lily Poetry Review and a Poetry Editor for Pink Panther Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Theory of Impact, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books.