We are excited to announce the inauguration of Bryan Riley as Amesbury’s new Poet Laureate on Sunday, January 25th! Come to the Amesbury Library for a celebration and reading.

Bryan Riley has been writing poetry for over 45 years and has been instrumental to our local poetry community. Using his pen-name Bryan P.T. Riley, he has 18 self-published volumes of poetry including Poems for the Clinically Insane and Seven Degrees, as well as a novel, Crispy the Impaler (And other tales of "Whoa! What?").

Riley has received the Readers' Choice, Critics’ Choice, and the Editor’s Choice Awards from National Library of Poetry, and works were included in an anthology that was sent to the moon (yes, really!) via the Writers on the Moon Project.

He has invented a new poetic form, known as the Amesbury Form, which is included in his upcoming volume of poetry, and is most thrilled to have been chosen as the Poet Laureate at the tenth anniversary of its inception.