Events for February 16, 2017 › Reading
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5:30 pm
Award-Winning Poet, CARL PHILLIPS
The Brandeis department of English is pleased to welcome CARL PHILLIPS, author of several books of poetry including Reconnaissance, winner of the 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. PHILLIPS has also published The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2015), and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004); and has translated […]
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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 […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.