Pre-dedication of new Poe sculpture. Celebration will feature sculptor Stefanie Rocknak, WBUR arts reporter Andrea Shea, authors Matthew Pearl and Megan Marhsall, composer Mary Bichner and the Planetary Quartet, director of the Boston Art Commission Karin Goodfelllow, and more.
Limited seating: doors open at noon.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.