Events for April 12, 2018
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4:00 pm
Memoirist MARY KARR at Emerson
Emerson's WLP Reading Series is pleased to present a Q&A and reading with MARY KARR. MARY KARR is an award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling memoirist, and the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed, best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit. Her latest […]
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Latinx Poetry Reading in Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, PEGGY ROBLES-ALVARADO with Boston Poet Laureate DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES
Part of the 2018 Latinx Poetry Reading and Workshop Series at Harvard University ELIZABETH ACEVEDO was born and raised in New York City and her poetry is infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing […]
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A Poetry Reading Celebrating, and Featuring, David Ferry
Please join us for an evening with the esteemed poet and translator DAVID FERRY. featuring works read by friends and faculty of the Boston University Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum. Readers: Zachary Bos, Jonathan Han, Brian Jorgensen, George Kalogeris, Stephanie Nelson, Anita Patterson, Christopher Ricks, Meg Tyler, Jon Westling; with David Ferry as our final […]
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.