Events for September 25, 2018
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6:30 am
Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Writing Night
Is your writing stuck? Join us for a productive writing night. We work from simple, but fertile prompts, and spend most of our time writing. If you are up to it, you can share with the group. We are open to all writers and every genre. We promise you will leave with good material to mine for […]
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A Hawk & Whippoorwill roundtable reading featuring Abhay K.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by Cory Willingham, Editor of Hawk & Whippoorwill, a journal of poems of humanity & nature. About our featured reader: Abhay K. is the author of numerous collections of poetry, and editor of CAPITALS and100 Great Indian Poems. About our roundtable readers: SARA AFSHAR […]
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Phyllis Blackstone at Story Space
Phyllis Blackstone: started life in a large Caribou, ME farming family, and currently resides in Brunswick, ME - when she is not traveling the back roads of America in her tiny RoadTrek motor home. Her repertoire includes folktales and personal stories – both touching and hilarious - of her family and travels. Hosted By: Bruce […]
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Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Olga Tokarczuk for FLIGHTS
Olga Tokarczuk will be in conversation with translator Jennifer Croft and writer Askold Melynczuk as part of the Transnational Literature Series. For more information, please contact series curator Shuchi Saraswat at shuchi@brooklinebooksmith.com. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most celebrated and beloved authors, a two-time winner of her country’s highest literary honor, the Nike. She is […]
Find out more »September U35 Reading Series w/Mass Poetry
U35 is Mass Poetry's bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35, held once each January, March, May, July, September, and November. The series seeks to promote and bolster Massachusetts poets under 35 while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets under 35. If you are a poet under the […]
Find out more »Crime Fiction Authors in Conversation
Join us for an evening with local author EDWIN HILL, who will be discussing his debut mystery Little Comfort with award-winning investigative journalist and mystery writer HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, whose latest novel Trust Me was published in August. Little Comfort Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her […]
Find out more »Favorite Poem Project Video Premiere
In over 20 years of documenting poetry’s role in the lives of Americans, the Favorite Poem Project has made video portraits of people reading poems they love in Washington DC, Florida, Chicago, and California. Now, working with the BU Office of the Provost, the BU Arts Initiative, and BU Productions, we have finally been able […]
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.