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Blue Front: A Workshop Performance
Conversations about race in America are always difficult and painful, doubly so when the theme is lynching. Poet Martha Collins has confronted this communal crime head on in her moving book-length poem, BLUE FRONT, about the lynching of Froggy James by an inflamed white mob in 1909 Cairo, Illinois. Martha’s father was only five at the time, but he always remembered what happened that day. BLUE FRONT has been adapted for the stage by Poets’ Theatre Literary Director, David Gullette,…
Find out more »Earfull: CELESTE NG and RICHARD RUSSO
Writers reading. Songwriters singing. It’s the return of Earfull - Spring 2018 Edition - at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Join them for an amazing series of authors and musicians coming together for intimate performances on the Branch Line patio. Show at 7:00pm. Doors at 6:30pm. Our May 22 event features Celeste Ng and Richard Russo, as well as musical acts Vapors of Morphine and Audrey Harrer.
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.