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Translating Cuban Poetry: Reading & Collaborative Workshop
Poets, translators, and the community at large are invited to the Woodberry Poetry Room to take part in this one-time collaborative translative intensive focused on the work of Cuban poet, dissident journalist & Guantanamo survivor JORGE OLIVERA, who is currently a visiting writer with Harvard Scholars at Risk. The two-hour event will feature a brief overview of 20th and 21st century Cuban poetry by the renowned poet Pablo Medina, a short reading by Olivera, followed by a workshop (facilitated by New…
Find out more »Oral History Initiative: On (and With) ANNE WALDMAN
Moderated by poet and scholar JOSHUA KOTIN (author of Utopias of One), this oral history conversation will focus on the communities that have emerged around or intersected with the life and work of poet, performer, activist and relentless force-for-the-good ANNE WALDMAN---including stories about individual poets, friends, and thinkers she's engaged with as well as such organizations as the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics/Naropa University and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. A brief trailer for the forthcoming documentary about…
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.