Upcoming Events/Readings

Upcoming Events:


My next upcoming reading is a virtual reading with Matthew E. Henry, Jared Beloff, and Frances Klein exploring poetry that engages religion and the Divine! We’d love to have you with us on May 1st at 7:30 p.m. Easter. Register here to join us for the event – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbaTI-uWMaDDZ4Ac–j9EZe53akIWqXf25cCPiHhcr7YkDog/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawJiJ9hleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHv9lXGZQKpHumHDL21P0LN3kRfxPFsXhD18HNw6SwjVPrXOPTkZgIfwT1RpB_aem_MOSyApy7tRW6xPRZu8fPjg

Past Events:

Haven’t had a chance to hear me read & would like to? Thinking about inviting me to read?

Check out this recording from the Woman as Communion release launch! It also features an opening reading from essayist Heather Burtman and, at the end, a Q & A about the chapbook.

Or: check out this recording of me as the featured reader at the Journal of Expressive Writing open mic! I read from both of my published chapbooks and 1 poem from Jesus Merch!

Or from Holyoke Media, where I read extensively from Jesus Merch + also read a few unpublished poems!

Photo from reading at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Charlestown, MA


Photo from Game Over reading at Trident Booksellers, Boston, MA


Screenshot from open mic in Holyoke, MA

Would you like to host me for a reading or have me as a featured speaker/reader at an event? Or perhaps looking for someone to come to talk to a group or a retreat on poetry & spirituality, exploration of the Bible through poetry, or poetry and purity culture? If you’d like to be in touch about a future event or reading, please email me at contact@meganmcdermottpoet.com I would love to hear from you!

I’ve given readings at Theodore Parker Church in West Roxbury, MA (as an opening reader for Matthew E. Henry); Trident Booksellers in Boston (with other Game Over Books poets); Happier Valley Comedy in Hadley, MA; St. John’s Episcopal Church in Charlestown, MA.; and my own congregation, Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, Mass. I have also been a featured reader at Open Mic’d in Holyoke, MA; Stonington Public Library Open Mic in Stonington, Maine; Northampton Poetry Open Mic in Northampton, MA; First Fridays Open Mic – Jamaica Plain (virtual); Journal of Expressive Writing Open Mic (virtual); and Port Veritas Open Mic in Portland, Maine, and have given a number of presentations on topics related to poetry & faith.

Here’s an online presentation I gave for Beacon Hills Friends House, an intentional Quaker community in Boston, on “Filling the Gaps: Poetry as an Exploration of Spiritual Silence.” And here is a presentation I gave that was organized by Province 1, the Episcopal Church in New England, on “Providing New Doorways: How Art and Literature Can Open Up Spiritual Conversation in Parish Life.”