Join patrons of the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday, January 6th to hear Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) read Sensitive. This tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense, too sensitive, too much. She's told to grow a thicker skin, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around […]
For its January 2024 All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer Series, Lesley University’s MFA Program inCreative Writing is honored to sponsor an international conversation and reading with Ukrainian poet and translator, Yuliya Musakovska; poet and translator Olena Jennings; and essayist, novelist, and poet,Askold Melnyczuk, founder of the celebrated literary magazine AGNI and currently publisher ofArrowsmith Press. […]
Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kevin Prufer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and on Zoom. KEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which […]
Join visiting writer Patricia Pearson (WFYP, June 2015), author of We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia. This event will be both in person and online.
PANELISTS: Tracey Baptiste, Chris Lynch, Patricia Pearson. Moderator: Sara Farizan. This event will be both in person and on Zoom.
Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kate Snodgrass (Emerita MFA Faculty for WSS) and Chris Lynch (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will be both in […]
Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Janet Pocorobba (Nonfiction, June 2006, Program Director). This event will be held both […]
Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with alums Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017) and Adria Karlsson (WFYP, January 2023). This event will be held both in […]
Join McNally Jackson Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow. RSVP Required. Shamar Hill, a Black and Jewish writer, is […]
Sometimes the hardest stories to tell are the ones that most need to be told. This class will focus on creating a safe space and a practice of self-care as […]
Join Odyssey Bookshop in person on Tuesday, January 23 at 7 PM, as local author D. Dina Friedman (Fiction, January 2016) presents her new collection, Immigrants. About the Book With sensitivity […]
The word “canon” in literary studies was intended to refer to humanity’s greatest writings—those which all "educated" people should know. Thanks to the work of critics and scholars of color, […]