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Poems for Political Disaster- Readings at The Cambridge Public Library

January 30, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The Cambridge Public Library will be the site of a reading from Poems for Political Disaster, a new chapbook featuring both new poems and selections from the Boston Review archive that “record, refract, subvert, or otherwise respond to political trauma, catastrophe, or terror—both here at home and abroad.” The evening will be hosted by Boston Review poetry editor B.K. FISHER and Harvard Bookstore. Poems for Political Disaster includes an introduction by U.S. Poet Laureate JUAN FELIPE HERRERA as well as poems from MARY JO BANG, SHANE MCCRAE, WENDY XU and many others.

Details

Date:
January 30, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Website:
http://www.harvard.com/event/poems_for_political_disaster/

Organizer

Harvard Book Store
Phone:
6176611515
Email:
info@harvard.com
Website:
harvard.com

Venue

Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
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Phone:
(617) 349-4040
Website:
cambridgepubliclibrary.org

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.