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Boston, MA 02108 United States

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September 2015

Suffolk University English Department Faculty Poetry Reading

September 29, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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Release Reading for Gregory Lawless’s FAR AWAY (Red Mountain Press, 2015) Thursday, October 8, 7:00pm - 9:00pm The Poetry Center at Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02108, on the 3rd Floor of the Sawyer Library Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the winner of the 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry and the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Cimarron Review, The National Poetry Review, Salamander, Cider Press Review, Third…

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November 2015

Reading with Poets Rebecca Kaiser Gibson and Gary Whited

November 4, 2015 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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Poets Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Opinel: Poems, Bauhan Publishing) and Gary Whited (Having Listened, Homebound Publications) will read from their work. Free and open to the public. Rebecca Kaiser Gibson teaches poetry at Tufts University. She has been published in Agni, Antigonish, the Boston Phoenix, Field, the Greensboro Review, the Harvard Review, MARGIE, Mothering, Northwest Review,Pleiades, Salamander, Slate, the Adroit Journal, 236 Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, and her works have been reprinted in an anthology called Cadence of Hooves, as well as featured in VerseDaily. Two of her chapbooks have been published: Admit…

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November 2017

Reading of “The Aeneid” with David Ferry

November 6, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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David Ferry's translation of The Aeneid is here! Join us in Suffolk University's Poetry Center to witness Ferry read from this masterpiece -- a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Books will be available for purchase.

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March 2018

Salamander: 25th Anniversary Celebration and Reading

March 1, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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Join Salamander as the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary on the evening of March 1 from 6-8 p.m. The celebration, which will take place at the Suffolk Poetry Center (Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd floor)  includes a gathering and a reading that will feature memoirist JANE BROX, poet ANDREA COHEN, and poet NATALIE SHAPERO. For more information, contact JENNY BARBER, at jbarber@suffolk.edu. The evening is free and open to the public.

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Novelist Laura van den Berg at Suffolk University

March 27, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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Laura van den Berg reads from her fiction at Suffolk University’s Poetry Center. Laura van den Berg is the author of two collections of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013) and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), and the novel Find Me (FSG, 2015). Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish her new novel, The Third Hotel, in August 2018, which has made the lists of most anticipated new books of 2018 at Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Hello Giggles. Her debut…

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October 2019

Micheal Longley and David Ferry: A Dialogue In & About Poetry at the Poetry Center, 3rd floor of Sawyer Library

October 10, 2019 | 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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The Suffolk University English Department and The Poets' Theater are thrilled to host a dialogue in & about poetry with world-renowned poets and scholars Michael Longley (traveling all the way from Ireland!) and David Ferry, Suffolk University’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar.   This event is free and open to the public. Coffee and tea will available.   We look forward to seeing you there!  

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November 2019

Poetry Readings and Translations with Alissa Valles at The Poetry Center

November 7, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center; Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, 73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
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This Thursday, November 7th, join us for a poetry reading and translations with famed poet and translator Alissa Valles.   We can’t wait to see you there!   For more information contact the English Department- english@suffolk.edu /6175738271

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