Molly Lynn Watt

Molly Lynn Watt carries a pen, a notebook and a journal as she travels, whether to Harvard Square, China, Ireland or Alaska to record her wonderings. She shapes adventures and questions into poems, essays and stories sometimes illustrated with photographs, writing regular daytrip articles for the Occasional Moose, a monthly journal published in Peterborough, N.H. She is a founding resident of Cambridge Cohousing, a longtime progressive educator and a peace and justice activist. She curates the monthly Fireside Poetry Readings now in its ninth season on the last Tuesday of each month (usually) with support from Jenise Aminoff , Jim Foritano, Julie Rochlin, Lolita Paiewonsky and Dan Lynn Watt. She is a founding member of the Every Other Friday Writing Group (2005), transformed into the Backstares.

Ibbetson Street Press released Shadow People, a book of Molly’s poems, in 2007. Molly edited the Bagelbard Anthology 1, 2 and 3, all published by Ibbeston Street Press. Her poetry is widely published in several dozen journals and she reads in many local venues.

Molly and her husband, Dan Lynn Watt recently turned excerpts from two shoeboxes of Dan’s parents letters to each other in 1937 into a political love story reading performance interlaced with folksongs. They have performed “George and Ruth – Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War”  several times a year for six years in the New Egland and New York with folksinger Tony Saletan and accordion player Sylvia Miskoe. The CD is available from CD-Baby.