#WritersResist: Boston

Five days before Donald Trump swears to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr, writers & activists will gather in fifty cities across three continents for a counter-inaugural demonstration: #WritersResist.

Greater Boston’s diverse communities will join together on that day at the Boston Public Library to re-inaugurate our shared commitment to the rights and values essential to a democracy.

Readings and performances by Rob Arnold, Jabari Asim, Liana Asim, James Carroll, Martha Collins, Laura van den Berg, Martín Espada, Danielle Legros Georges, Jennifer Haigh, Krysten Hill, Rachel Kadish, Helen Elaine Lee, Giles Li, Jennifer De Leon, Marianne Leone, Michael Lowenthal, Pablo Medina, Alma Richeh, Paul Yoon, young writers from the Greater Boston area, and special guests.

The event is free to all.

For information about the Boston event, visit
http://criticalflame.org/writers-resist-boston

Greater Boston Writers Resist is co-sponsored by PEN New England, Beacon Press, Aforementioned Productions, AGNI, Arrowsmith Press, Black Ocean, Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Boston Book Festival, Boston Review, the Center for Arabic Culture, the City of Boston’s Office of New Bostonians, CONSEQUENCE magazine, Dominican Development Center, The Greater Boston Latino Network, Grub Street, Harvard Bookstore, Harvard Review, Louder than a Bomb, Mass LEAP, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Memorious, Ploughshares, The Poets’ Theater, PoemWorks, Post Road, Salamander, the UMASS-Boston Creative Writing MFA, the Woodberry Poetry Room, and The Critical Flame.

For more about Writers Resist, visit writersresist.org