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Robert Pinsky presents THE MIND HAS CLIFFS OF FALL with Gail Mazur and Jill McDonough at Porter Square Books
oin award-winning poet Robert Pinsky, Gail Mazur, and Jill McDonough for a reading from Pinskys' new poetry anthology The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, […]
Find out more »Craft on Draft presents – Writing Your Novel’s Biggest Moments at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Going big can be a challenge. Write too loud and your big moments become melodrama, not loud enough and they can lose their punch. Come hear how authors Rachel Barenbaum (A Bend in the Stars), Mark Guerin (You Can See More from up Here), and Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne (Holding on to Nothing) found the right […]
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.