Book Banter is a free, fun, interactive event that streams live. Join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube! In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods […]
L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) hosted a curated evening of readings by queer Boston writers. There will be a few open mic slots at the end of the curated reading.
“You Are Ruining My Loneliness is a beautiful lyrical collection that moves with agile intelligence through poems that stand out for their imagery, apt figurative language, and varied poetic forms. In the poem “Night Walk,” where “rain puddles full as plums…each lit / with its own moon,” the speaker wonders,“I’m alone out here, or /seem to […]
Walk around the Pratt House Pollinator Garden and listen to Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006)'s Flower Talk to learn about flowers and pollinators. Parking available at Essex Library and Town Hall.
Join Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019) at Edgartown Books in Edgartown, MA for a signing of her debut novel The Golden Land.
The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading/workshop of a new play in development, (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius (WSS, June 2015), at the Boston Center for the Arts. (UN)HOUSED tells the story of a single mother, Elianie, and her recent college graduate daughter, Skylar, who has moved back home. As Skylar tries to navigate the […]
Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted, exhausted, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations. Harvard lecturer, speech pathologist, and mother, Rebecca Rolland (Fiction, June 2017) offers an essential, evidence-based […]
Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us - both built and natural - and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By […]
Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format, white space, word choice, metaphors, structure, rhythm, and more. In this seminar, writers will be asked to re-imagine scenes from a work-in-progress with an emphasis on how […]
Co-presented by The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, this event will feature Enzo Surin (Poetry, 2012), Roberto Carlos Garcia, Iyaba Mandingo, Geoffrey Philp, Saida Agostini Bostic, and Andre Bagoo. Hosted by Tanya Batson-Savage and Attillab Springer.
Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017), Eliot Cardinaux, and Rebecca Faulkner. Michael W Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly Amherst […]
Join McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow in the bar. RSVP required. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May […]