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4:30 pm
Micheal Longley and David Ferry: A Dialogue In & About Poetry at the Poetry Center, 3rd floor of Sawyer Library
The Suffolk University English Department and The Poets' Theater are thrilled to host a dialogue in & about poetry with world-renowned poets and scholars Michael Longley (traveling all the way from Ireland!) and David Ferry, Suffolk University’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar. This event is free and open to the public. Coffee and tea will available. […]
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Karen Chase: Oedipus in the Back Seat with Patrick Donnelly: Little Known Operas at The Bookstore and Get Lit Wine Bar
Karen Chase New Work In Progress: Oedipus in the Backseat and Patrick Donnelly Little Known Operas The lush, lexically gorgeous and emotionally complex poems of Little-Known Operas guide us through the terrain of love, sex, same-sex marriage, illness, death, and art. “MARIA CALLAS WENT TO HAMBURG” from Little-Known Operas In 1959 when Maria Callas went […]
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Emerson College WLP Reading Series, David Mura Reading at the Bill Bordy Theatre
If you are a non-Emerson guest, please RSVP for this reading event at Eventbrite. A Stranger's Journey: Race and Identity in Poetry and Prose by David Mura David Mura is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His latest book is A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. He’s written two memoirs: Turning Japanese (a […]
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A Night in with Joyful Clemantine Wamariya
Join Read4Refugees (in collaboration with the Girls' Night In Boston Community) for a night in to raise money for refugees. Wear your best pajamas, bring a book to swap, and get ready to cozy up with other compassionate booklovers. The event will run from 7 - 9pm and feature a virtual reading and Q&A from the incredible […]
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.