Join the Newton Free Library on Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm for an evening with Heather Treseler, author of "Auguries & Divinations," winner of the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. Treseler will read from her award-winning collection and speak about the creative process behind her work. She will discuss the evolution of the book, the questions that shaped it, and the craft choices that guide her poetry, before opening the floor to an audience Q&A.

"Auguries & Divinations" brings together poems written with an almost painterly attention to desire, longing, and grief. Treseler’s muscular diction and richly nuanced language convey a deep sense of emotional urgency, complicating what we think we know about the interior landscapes of women’s lives and relationships. Hinging on the carefully plain-spoken elegy at its center, "Auguries & Divinations’" intricately allusive, personal, and restrained poems sing with craft, beauty, and tenderness.

This program is sponsored by the Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau and is presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Center for the Book.