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6:30 pm
A Hawk & Whippoorwill roundtable reading featuring Abhay K.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by Cory Willingham, Editor of Hawk & Whippoorwill, a journal of poems of humanity & nature. About our featured reader: Abhay K. is the author of numerous collections of poetry, and editor of CAPITALS and100 Great Indian Poems. About our roundtable readers: SARA AFSHAR […]
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Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith presents: Olga Tokarczuk for FLIGHTS
Olga Tokarczuk will be in conversation with translator Jennifer Croft and writer Askold Melynczuk as part of the Transnational Literature Series. For more information, please contact series curator Shuchi Saraswat at shuchi@brooklinebooksmith.com. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most celebrated and beloved authors, a two-time winner of her country’s highest literary honor, the Nike. She is […]
Find out more »September U35 Reading Series w/Mass Poetry
U35 is Mass Poetry's bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35, held once each January, March, May, July, September, and November. The series seeks to promote and bolster Massachusetts poets under 35 while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets under 35. If you are a poet under the […]
Find out more »Favorite Poem Project Video Premiere
In over 20 years of documenting poetry’s role in the lives of Americans, the Favorite Poem Project has made video portraits of people reading poems they love in Washington DC, Florida, Chicago, and California. Now, working with the BU Office of the Provost, the BU Arts Initiative, and BU Productions, we have finally been able […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.