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Never a dull literary moment in Boston! To scratch your literary itch and become an active participant in the best literary community in the country, click on any event in the calendar in order to hyperlink to more information.The events take place both within the Lit District’s borders and outside. OOD means the event is Out Of District.

Events for February 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 Boston Black Male Artist Collective at the Newsfeed Café KEVIN POWELL: Looking for Martin―Dr. King, Community, Civil Rights, Social Media, and the New Activism MORGAN JERKINS at Harvard Book Store	2	3 FREE CRAFT SEMINAR: “Making the Jump: Bringing Characters to Life on the Page” Writing Romance Today: A panel with authors KRISTAN HIGGINS and SARAH MACLEAN at the Boston Public Library Dire Literary Series	4
5	6 Literary Trivia at the Newsfeed Cafe WES HAZARD Featured at Story Space	7 Novel Incubator Submission Deadline Award Winning Poet JANE HIRSHFIELD at Suffolk University MIRA T LEE reads from “Everything Here is Beautiful” at Porter Square Books	8 ROSALYN D. ELDER on African American Heritage in Massachusetts History, Identity, Politics, and the Art of Writing: A Lecture with VIET THANH NGUYEN DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s “The Outermost House” Memoir Incubator Open House & Info Session KRISTIN HANNAH at Wellesley Books View All 6 Events »	9	10	11
12 Free Memoir Workshop at Somerville Public Library	13 SAM GRAHAM-FELSEN Presents Green: A Novel Wrters ELENA GEORGIOU and KL PEREIRA Explore Immigration, Refugees, and Identity at the Boston Public Library Emerson’s Publishing Series: How To Get An Agent & How to Be One Valentine’s Day at Story Space	14 Porter Square Books Presents: Poets & Pints Open Mic	15 Author DORJE DOLMA on Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal Activist/Authors FRANCIS MOORE LAPPE and ADAM EICHEN on Anti-Democracy Crisis at the Boston Public Library Late Night at the Congressional Library: Prohibition Trivia!	16	17	18
19 Boston By Foot: the Adams Family Walking Tour	20 MURRAY DANOFSKY Featured at Story Space	21 ANDREW MORTON, Author of “Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy” at the Boston Public Library	22 Common Threads 2018 Launch Discussion Group The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History	23	24 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE	25 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Turtle Studios: Writers Night
26 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE For the Love of Arts Criticism How To Catch A Falling Knife: Poetic Play as the Practice of Negative Capability	27 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Writing Night Cheryl Hamilton Featured at Story Space Tue 02/27/2018	28 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE JESSICA SHATTUCK reads from The Women in the Castle GrownUp StoryTime: Frost to Thaw

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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.