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…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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…
Find out more »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!
Find out more »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
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.