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30th Joiner Institute Writers’ Workshop Poetry and Music Celebration
June 27, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Join the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences based at UMass Boston for a night of music and poetry celebrating the 30th year of our annual Writers Workshop and its community and creative response to war. Featuring poetry readings by Yusef Komunyakaa, Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung, and more TBA.
Live music performed by Layth Sadiq, the UMB Jazz Trio, and more TBA.
Hosted by the Boston Public Library, this event is not ticketed.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.