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Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library

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Roxbury, MA 02119
(617) 445-4340 www.bpl.org/branches/egleston.htm

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March 2018

Cuando llegamos | Writing Immigration Stories

March 24, 2018 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Free

Immigration stories can be about origins, family separation, trauma, struggle, success, survival, secrets, personal and cultural reinvention, political upheaval and the search for home, freedom and country. Right now it feels especially urgent to make our own stories visible in all their complexity. But where to start? Your story might be remembered, imagined, or reconstructed. What does this mean for the process of writing memoir or fiction? This short workshop is open to everyone, no matter your experience with writing.…

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June 2018

Don’t Just Stand There and Read It! Performing Your Writing | ¡No te pares ahí leyendo sin hacer nada! Interpretando tu escritura en vivo

June 23, 2018 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Free

Are you ready to share your writing--live? While spoken word artists write in a tradition that is oral, musical, performative, AND literary, what about performing our stories, essays, and poems that were written primarily for the page? How can we amp up the potential of the literary reading to connect with audiences and bring new dimensions to our work? We’ll talk about how to select material to read aloud, timing, pacing, projection, and eye contact. We’ll also look at examples…

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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.