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The Knife Thrower’s Girl: Poetry Reading with Naomi Mulvihill

Egleston Square Branch Library 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States

Join local author Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) as she reads from her award-winning debut book of poetry, The Knife Thrower’s Girl. Naomi Mulvihill was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her chapbook, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press) was awarded the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s […]

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Hybrid Book Launch of Glove Shy: A Sister’s Reckoning — Janet Hurley in conversation with Sebastian Matthews

Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe 55 Haywood Street, Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Join Janet Hurley (Nonfiction, June 2008) in conversation with Sebastian Matthews at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe for the launch of her memoir Glove Shy. This is a hybrid event with limited in-store seating and the option to attend online. The event is free but registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance. This event includes a […]

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Kate Fussner with Rebecca Podos: The Song of Us

Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of The Song of Us with author Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021), in conversation with Rebecca Podos. Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. Kate holds her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts Boston, […]

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The Golden Land with Author Liz Shick at Chilmark Library

Chilmark Library 522 South Road, Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States

A debut novel that digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta's grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her grandmother's family and the violence she witnessed there. Full of rich detail and complex relationships, The Golden Land explores those personal narratives that might lie […]

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Reading with Karin Cecile Davidson and Jen Knox

Online Event

Two Dollar Radio Headquarters will be celebrating the release of Karin Cecile Davidson's (Fiction, June 2009) newest novel, The Geography of First Kisses, and Jen Knox's debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited. 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 […]

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Spiritual Refuge Series – Public Reading with Naomi Mulvihill 

North Kingstown Free Library 100 Boone Street, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States

Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) gives a public reading at the North Kingstown Free Library as part of the visiting writers Spiritual Refuge Series sponsored by St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

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Kate Fussner at Children’s Book World for The Song of Us

Children's Book World 17 Haverford Station Rd, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States

Join Children's Book World in Haverford, PA for a reading with Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021) from her debut novel, The Song of Us. Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found spending time with […]

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Virtual Book Banter with Karin Cecile Davidson

Online Event

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 […]

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Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series — E.B. Bartels (Nonfiction), Janet Hurley (Nonfiction), and Kate Kearns (Poetry)

University Hall Amphitheater 99 Brattle St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

The evening's reading will include E.B. Bartels, Visiting Writer, nonfiction, plus: Janet Hurley, Alum, nonfiction (June 2008), and Kate Kearns, Alum, poetry (June 2008), presented by Cambridge Common Writers. There will be a reception following the reading.

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[Working Title] reading hosted by L Scully

Faro Café 5 Arrow St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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.

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Kate Kearns discusses YOU ARE RUINING MY LONELINESS

Print: A Bookstore 273 Congress St, Portland, Maine, United States

“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 […]

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