Events for January 30, 2017
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6:30 pm
Birth of a Movement: Film Screening and Discussion
The Boston Literary District is pleased to co-sponsor the Boston premiere of Birth of a Movement. In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, […]
Find out more »Poems for Political Disaster- Readings at The Cambridge Public Library
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 […]
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An Evening of Inspired Leaders: A Favorite Poem Reading With Mass Poetry
Attend a remarkable evening, as exceptional leaders from diverse fields read a favorite poem and reflect on its connection to their life and work. Readers include: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Anita Diamant, Jabari Asim, and Lloyd Schwartz
Find out more »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.