The New England Poetry Club celebrates the winners of its 2019 contests with a reading and reception. Among the award-winning poets who will read their work are Susan Donnelly and Dzvinia Orlowsky, co-winners of the Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky; and Maria Luisa Arroyo, winner of the Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Alan Smith Soto. This event is co-hosted by the Cambridge Public Library.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.