Local poet Katherine Hollander presents her award-winning collection My German Dictionary, joined by fellow local poet Tanya Larkin. My German Dictionary, which was awarded the 14th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by former USA Poet Laureate Charles Wright, is a guide to an idiosyncratic interior country, a map of the experience of absorbing and being absorbed by […]
Find out more »Celebrating Literature and History Inspired by the Saturday Club at the Omni Parker House, Kennedy Room, followed by Parker’s Bar, Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 3:30 pm • 60 School Street, Boston 02108 Readings from a new anthology with editor Martín Espada and poets Doug Anderson—Danielle Legros Georges—Everett Hoagland— Richard Michelson—Marge Piercy—Robert Pinsky—Lauren Marie Schmidt […]
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.