Meridians and the Poetry Center at Smith College invite the local community to a night of poetry and conversation celebrating the life and work of Rhina P. Espaillat. The evening’s events will bring Ms. Espaillat—a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who has published eleven collections of poetry—to Smith College along with scholars Nancy Kang, and […]
Find out more »Walker Building, Room 232 Free and open to the public. Please RSVP by November 28 at this EventBrite link: https://yujinko.eventbrite.com Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given visitor access. ---- The Afterlives of Shakespeare's Original Stage Conditions: From Boston to Seoul Yu Jin Ko is Professor of English at Wellesley College, where he teaches Shakespeare, […]
Find out more »Story Club Boston is a storytelling/reading event with featured guests tellers and an open mic portion. I like other shows, we allow stories to be told from memory or read from the page. The theme of our next show is “Lucky.”
Find out more »Louisa May Alcott was one of many literary greats who stepped forward in the late 19th century to support Old South Meeting House’s fundraising efforts after its narrow escape from demolition and during its first years as an independent nonprofit organization. On the evening of the Little Women scribe’s 186th birthday, join us at the […]
Find out more »It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new […]
Find out more »Shannon Messenger, author of the middle-grade Keeper of the Lost Cities series, presents Flashback, the highly anticipated seventh book. Tickets for this event are $5 and can be used as a coupon off of the book. Buy tickets in-store (no fees), by phone at 781-431-1160 (no fees), or online at store.wellesleybooks.com (fees apply). Please note […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.