Please join us as former Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish reads from and discusses his work. Sam has been writing poetry since the 1960s. His works include the award-winning “Apron Full of Beans” (2008), “Dead Beats” (2011), “Generations” (1970), “Songs of Jubilee” (1986), “1935: A Memoir” (1990), “Folks Like Me” (1993), “Cross a Parted Sea” (1996), and more. Wednesday, May 25th, 7:00-8:30 PM — New England Mobile Book Fair, 82-84 Needham St., Newton Highlands, MA 02461; 617-527-5817.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.