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Poets and Pints with Porter Square Books at Aeronaut Brewery
Porter Square Books invites you to Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry with readings from three local poets, Julian Miller, published poet Laurie Rosenblatt, and Geraldine Zetzel. The event will feature a social hour from 6 until 7PM in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans. The formal reading will run from 7 until 8PM.
Find out more »Poets and Pints with Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books invites you to Aeronaut Brewery for another celebration of local poetry with "Poets and Pints," readings from three local poets: MEIA GEDDES, JOJO LAZAR, and ZENAIDA PETERSON. The event will feature a social hour from 6PM until 7PM in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans. The formal reading will run from 7PM until 8PM.
Find out more »Poets & Pints: October 11
Join Porter Square Books in their celebration of poetry: Poets & Pints The greater Somerville and Cambridge area is lucky to have such a vibrant poetry community. So, once a month we will gather at the community space at Aeronaut on the Duck Village stage, to celebrate that community with readings by three local poets. The event will feature a social hour from 6-7 in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans.…
Find out more »GrownUp StoryTime: A January To Remember
It may be cold outside but there is a heartwarming community of storytellers getting ready for the next show. Join Boston's GrownUp StoryTime at Aeronaut Brewing Company 7pm on Wednesday January 24th. Here's the deal: GrownUp Storytime is an hour of funny, heartwarming, crazy, amazing stories read aloud. Created by the original BooTown in Houston and now in Boston. Remember storytime before bedtime? Well this is just like that only replace a loved one with a weird stranger, warm milk with…
Find out more »Porter Square Books Presents: Poets & Pints Open Mic
Celebrate Valentine's Day by reading your favorite love poem or poem about love or poem about all of the complexities and challenges of love at Porter Square Books' first ever Poets & Pints Open Mic. As with other Poets & Pints this event will be taking place at the Duck Village Stage at Aeronaut Brewing. Sign ups will begin at 6PM during the normal Poets & Pints social hour and the "Open Mic of Love, etc" will follow a reading by NAUSHEEN EUSUF.…
Find out more »GrownUp StoryTime: Frost to Thaw
Do you dream of February transforming from Frost to Thaw? Come listen to some frosty stories that just might make your heart thaw...(read on to submit your story for consideration). Here's the deal: GrownUp Storytime is an hour of funny, heartwarming, crazy, amazing stories read aloud. Created by the original BooTown in Houston and now in Boston. Remember storytime before bedtime? Well this is just like that only replace a loved one with a weird stranger, warm milk with craft…
Find out more »Poets & Pints at Aeronaut Brewery
Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry: Poets & Pints. This event will feature a social hour from 6-7 in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans. The formal reading will be from 7-8 and will feature three local poets reading from their latest works. This month's Poets & Pints will feature Duy Doan, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets, in one of…
Find out more »Poets & Pints at the Aeronaut Brewery
Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry. The greater Somerville and Cambridge area is lucky to have such a vibrant poetry community. So, once a month we will gather at the community space at Aeronaut on the Duck Village stage, to celebrate that community with readings by three local poets. The event will feature a social hour from 6-7 in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans.…
Find out more »Books and Brews at Aeronaut Brewing Company
Books and Brews is a social book club for readers in their 20s, 30s, and the young at heart. We will be meeting every third Tuesday to discuss a new book, so mark your calendar and get excited to chat. Our December selection is "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafis. Copies will be available at all three locations of the Somerville Public Library. Stop by the Circulation Desk and say you're a Books and Brews member to pick up…
Find out more »January Books and Brews
Books and Brews is a social book club for readers in their 20s, 30s, and the young at heart. We will be meeting every third Tuesday to discuss a new book, so mark your calendar and get excited to chat. Our January selection is "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman. Copies will be available at all three locations of the Somerville Public Library. Stop by the Circulation Desk and say you're a Books and Brews…
Find out more »Grown Up Book Fair at Aeronaut Brewing
Join us on Sunday, October 13th from 2-6PM at Aeronaut Brewing for our Fall Grown Up Book Fair. The Grown Up Book Fair will have everything you love about school book fairs (including the pencil sets) plus beer! Since the Fair falls during Indigenous Peoples Day weekend, we're bringing a selection of great books by indigenous authors. Since we get pretty excited about Halloween around here, we'll also bringing great spooky, scary, and unsettling books. We'll round out our books with a selection of staff picks.
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.