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10:00 am

Boston Book Festival at Copley Square

October 19, 2019 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Copley Square, Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02116 United States
Free

The Boston Book Festival returns for Year Eleven, and this time, it's a full weekend event for the first time ever. Festival events will take place in Copley Square on Saturday 10/19 and in Dudley Square on Sunday 10/20. Saturday highlights include keynotes by Marie Lu, Elizabeth Strout, Ben Crump, and David W. Blight, as […]

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10:45 am

Poetry at the Extreme at BPL McKim Exhibition Hall

October 19, 2019 | 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St
Boston, 02116 United States
Free

Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will be joined by contributors Maggie Dietz, Martín Espada, and Jill McDonough to read poems from their collections, as well as other collected poems demonstrating poetry at the heights and depths of emotion. Obama inaugural poet Richard Blanco, author most recently of How to Love a Country, will host what's sure to be a powerful […]

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.