Michael Lowenthal (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) will feature in White Whale's virtual events series for his latest, Sex with Strangers. He'll be joined by local author and professor, William Lychack, author of Cargill Falls, for a reading. Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and The Paternity Test. His short stories and essays […]
Boswell presents an evening with writer Michael Lowenthal (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty), author of Avoidance, The Paternity Test, and now Sex with Strangers: Stories. For this event, Lowenthal will be in conversation with Stephen McCauley, author of My Ex-Life. Recognizing that any partner is unknowable on some level, Michael Lowenthal writes about how intimacy can […]
In this workshop, led by poet and professor Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), some of the great poetic influences (think John Keats and Wallace Stevens, or Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich) will be explored and two prompts will be provided to inspire you to invite influence into your work. Steven Cramer’s sixth poetry collection, Listen, was […]
Kevin Prufer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books), winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series, and Professor in […]
Steven Cramer’s (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) sixth poetry collection, Listen, was published in 2020 by MadHat Press. He is the author of five previous collections, most recently Clangings (2012) and Goodbye to the Orchard (2004), which won the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named an Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for […]
In April 2021, Salem, MA will be the epicenter of contemporary American poetry, offering rare opportunities to hear the nation’s best poets read and discuss their work in intimate and engaging forums. Join Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016), Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), Christine Jones (Poetry, January 2014), and Kyle Potvin as they read from […]
In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a […]
Join poets Tim Carver, Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), and Tom Schmidt for a poetry reading focused on the themes of grief, mourning, and moving toward hope. This reading will feature a short reading from each poet and an opportunity for Q&A after. Tim Carter is the author of Remains (BOAAT Press 2020) and teaches creative writing and rhetoric in […]
Join Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012) with Jane Brox (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jeffrey Harrison for a reading hosted by Susanna Kittredge at Chapter and Verse.
When coronavirus started closing down New England in March 2020, life changed dramatically. People quickly rethought their approaches to work, school, shopping, socializing and more. In response, Lily Poetry Press created an anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus, edited by Eileen Cleary and Christine Jones, which features poems by Kevin Prufer, Annie Finch, Daniel Summerhill, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Anne-Marie Oomen, […]
Bajan author and filmmaker Shakirah Bourne joins Greenlight (virtually!) to launch her debut middle grade novel, Josephine Against the Sea, a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology!Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make […]
The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer’s life. Petro twines her story around that of Wales by viewing both through the lens of hiraeth, a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate, deriving from an old usage meaning ‘long […]