Events for July 7, 2018
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2:00 pm
Remain Free: An Author Talk with GAUTAM NARULA
In 2011, Troy Anthony Davis, a black man convicted of murdering white police officer Mark MacPhail in cold blood, was the world's most famous death row inmate. In the twenty-two years since the murder, Davis had faced four execution dates. The day after one of those execution dates, a fifteen-year-old named Gautam Narula wrote Davis […]
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Dire Literary Series with Stephanie Laterza, Paul Beckman, and Simeon Berry
FREE Stephanie Laterza is the recipient of a SU-CASA 2018 artist-in-residence award from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her poetry has been featured in L'Éphémère Review, Ovunque Siamo, A Gathering of the Tribes, Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Meniscus Magazine, and is forthcoming in First Literary Review-East. Her short fiction has been […]
Find out more »Write Down the Street: A Reading at JP Porchfest
Poets and writers from Write Down the Street creative writing classes will read fiction, poetry, and memoir from many experiences and perspectives. Readers include Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Marjorie Saintil-Belizaire, Carmen-Isabel Belizaire, Zachary Saintil-Belizaire, Carolyn Jackson, and more! Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta is a partnership between GrubStreet, one of the nation's […]
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.