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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 March 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Exodus from Dixie: The Great Migration as a Social Movement Salamander: 25th Anniversary Celebration and Reading	2 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE	3 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Dire Literary Series with Yarbrough, Cherches and Pleasants	4 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Book Launch for Avaton by DIMITRIOS BAFALOUKOS
5 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE	6 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE KELLY BARNHILL, author of “Dreadful Young Ladies: And Other Stories” at the Boston Public Library Mark Modrall Featured at Story Space	7 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE Author Talk and Book Signing with BROOKE BARBIER HAMLET / SAINT JOAN	8 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Latina Poetry Reading in Celebration of Women’s History Month Latina Poetry Reading in Celebration of Women’s History Month PAUL-GORDON CHANDLER, Author of “In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran” at the Boston Public Library	9 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Workshop, Open Mic and Reception with CARMEN BARDEGUEZ-BROWN Chapter and Verse Reading at Loring-Greenough House	10 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Writing About Family: a free creative writing workshop	11 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN
12 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN TED SCHEINMAN, Author of “Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan” at the Boston Public Library	13 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Paula Dugan Featured at Story Space	14 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Emerson’s WLP Reading Series: AMY HEMPEL: CANCELLED Poets & Pints at Aeronaut Brewery Oral History Initiative: On (and With) ANNE WALDMAN	15 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Call for Submissions, Novelists: Embark From Perpetual Indians to Perpetual Foreigners, a Discussion of Latina/o Migrant Identities at the Boston Public Library Boston Writers of Color: Submit-a-Thon!	16 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN Free Online Meditation and Writing Session	17 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN	18 ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE HAMLET / SAINT JOAN
19 Young Writers and Illustrators: Meet & Greet All the Women in My Family Sing	20 BILL HARLEY Featured at Story Space Free Online Meditation and Writing Session	21	22	23 Chinatown Presents: Authors ANELISE CHEN & Q.M. ZHANG DANIEL MALLORY ORTBERG at Harvard Book Store	24 Cuando llegamos \| Writing Immigration Stories	25 Book Launch: SUSAN TAN’s “Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book Is a Classic”
26 Emerson Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: RICHARD HOFFMAN & LEAH CARROLL Poetry & the Body	27 Author JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM, Author of Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours, at the Boston Public Library Novelist Laura van den Berg at Suffolk University TIM TINGLE Featured at Story Space	28 AMINATTA FORNA in conversation with CLAIRE MESSUD at Harvard Book Store	29	30	31

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