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Book Launch: Author Ed Hamilton
Cervena Barva Press invites you to celebrate the Boston area launch of “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York,” by Ed Hamilton. The Chintz Age focuses on artists and their response to gentrification. In seven stories and a novella, Ed Hamilton takes on this clash of cultures between the old and the new, as his characters are forced to confront their own obsolescence in the face of a rapidly surging capitalist juggernaut. Ranging over…
Find out more »Carla Schwartz: Poetry, Avante-garde Piano, Shadow Puppets on Video
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 7 PM Carla performs poems from her book, Mother, One More Thing, with shadow puppets on video and other pieces on the piano with improvised vocals Duck Village Series Aeronaut Brewing Company 14 Tyler Street Somerville, MA Free
Find out more »Carla Schwartz performs poetry with video and photography from her Blog, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com
Friday May 20, 2016, 8 PM Carla performs poetry with video and photography from her Blog, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com Live at Richard Cambridge's Poetry Theatre Arts and the Armory main stage 191 Somerville Ave Somerville, MA $10 cover
Find out more »Misunderstood: Inverting the Workshop Model
Has your writing about POC, LGBTQ, or immigrant issues been misunderstood in the workshop? Have you been asked to make your narrator explain something cultural to readers that they would never (have to) explain within their own community? Part workshop and part story share, participants are invited to bring excerpts of their poems, essays, stories, anecdotes, and oral histories that have been—or that participants fear will be—misread, misinterpreted, or outright rejected due to cultural differences between the author/teller and the reader/recipient…
Find out more »Poetry Roundtable in Somerville
GLORIA MINDOCK, the Poet Laureate of Somerville, is pleased to host a Poetry Roundtable at the Arts at the Armory in Somerville on Saturday, January 20th at 1:00PM. Bring some poems to share for this special event, which is free and open to the public. Refreshments will served. Arts at the Armory Cervena Barva Press Studio, Basement B8 191 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA
Find out more »Solidarity Salon
Join the Solidarity Salon for a reading/performance/exhibit featuring: JAMES DARGAN, LISA DESIRO, SAMMY GREENSPAN, MIRANDA LOUD, LEE OKAN, and DEBORAH SCHWARTZ. Books and artwork will be available to purchase. Food and drinks for sale at the Arts at the Armory Cafe. Free admission and free parking.
Find out more »Dire Lit Series
Another round of the Dire Lit Series with JD SCRIMGEOUR, DAVID ATKINSON, and JANE ROSENBERG LAFORGE. J.D. Scrimgeour is a writer who lives in Salem, Massachusetts. His personal essays and poetry often focus on class and education, exploring what constitutes authentic learning in the exchange between student and teacher. Learning was a major theme in Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In & Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction, and his work on the subject…
Find out more »Dire Literary Series Finale with ELIZABETH GRAVER and other writers
Timothy Gager presents the finale of his long running Dire Literary Series. Readers include: ELIZABETH GRAVER’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001); Prize Stories:…
Find out more »Červená Barva Press reading at The Armory, Center for Creative Arts
Červená Barva Press and owner Gloria Mindock invite you to a reading at The Armory, Center for Creative Arts, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville MA on Saturday January 26 at 7:00 PM. Readers, Christina Chiu, Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard and Preston H. Hood III will read from Illness, Resiliency and Spirituality edited by Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard. Each Chapter-story of this book is about each person overcoming trauma with determination and resiliency no matter how difficult their journey.
Find out more »Women’s Voices: An Evening of Readings
Join us for an evening of powerful, moving and sometimes humorous stories by the students in Nadia Colburn’s Creative Non-Fiction Writing Class. These women will read from their works of memoir, personal essay and poetry that have helped each writer find and expand her own unique voice. Writers include: Janet Bednarz, Elaine Bennett, Rachael Petersen, Colleen Reilly, Wendy Rosen, Eileen Woodford, and Martina Woulfe.
Find out more »Somerville 2069 at Arts at the Armory
The Somerville Community Corporation works to keep Somerville equitable, inclusive, and affordable. As part of our 50th Anniversary celebration, we are hosting an event on October 26 inviting community members to imagine Somerville in 50 years. It's open to anyone - artists, students, teachers, poets, makers, kids - and we'd love to include poems or literary submissions and presentations from local writers and poets! 2069 - Imagine the future!!!
Find out more »Writers Helping Writers Reading & Raffle at Arts at the Armory
The Writers Helping Writers READING & RAFFLE is a free event to support the WHW need-based scholarship fund. Food and drink will be available. Donations are welcome. Supported by writers & friends of the arts community, this scholarship fund helps writers make their dream of pursuing a graduate degree at the Solstice Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program of Pine Manor College a reality! Raffle prizes include: Signed Books, Writing Critiques, and Gift Cards FEATURING READINGS BY: Solstice Student: Rebecca Connors Solstice Alum: Eileen Cleary…
Find out more »New England Poetry Club: New Poetry and Open Mic at Arts at the Armory
3 NEPC members read from their new books, plus open mic. Readers: Toni Bee Jennifer Martelli Chris O'Carroll
Find out more »Patricia Marx and Roz Chast presents YOU CAN ONLY YELL AT ME FOR ONE THING AT A TIME at Arts at the Armory
Enter code BOSTON to purchase tickets before 11⁄1. The perfect Valentine’s Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Every ticket to this event includes a copy of You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples.
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.