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Virtual Poetry at the Library Series: featuring Steven Cramer & Joyce Peseroff

Online Event

Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) reads from his sixth collection, Listen (MadHat Press, 2020),  lucid, smart portrayals of  the “darker corners” of despair through scores of illuminating juxtapositions.  Experimenting with many verse forms to give shape to the mind’s restless shifts and associations—sometimes absurdly funny, bracingly honest, and always sharp in thought and craft—the lyric testimony of Listen reaffirms […]

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Wintonbury Library Poetry Series with Lori Desrosiers

Online Zoom Event

Spark your creativity, make connections, and share the gift of poetry! The P. Faith McMahon Wintonbury Library offers readings by notable poets and a warm, supportive atmosphere for sharing your own work. Featured poets for this event are Lori Desrosiers (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Benjamin Grossberg. Open mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during […]

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Hidden Timber Reading Series featuring Karin Cecile Davidson

Online Zoom Event

In light of so many cancelled book tours as of late, Hidden Timber Books is hosting other small press authors via Zoom for readings. Join them and alum Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009) as they discuss her debut novel, Sybelia Drive.

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Chris Lynch & Jami Brandli

Online Zoom Event

Chris Lynch has never been a New York Times bestselling author, not even close. But he has been publishing young-adult and middle-grade novels since 1993. One of them was a National Book Award finalist, and another was a Michael L. Printz award honor book. His next YA novel, Walkin’ the Dog, will be out with Simon & Schuster in 2022, […]

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Karen Zacarias

Online Zoom Event

This Residency's All Lesley Reads visitor is the award-winning playwright Karen Zacarías. Karen Zacarías has been named by American Theater Magazine one of the most-produced playwrights in the country, as well as one of the most-produced theater-for young-people playwrights. Her new play, The Copper Children, about an explosive child separation case set in 1905, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival […]

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Sharon Bryan & Tony Eprile

Online Zoom Event

Sharon Bryan is the author of four books of poems, most recently Sharp Stars, which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She edited Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, and co-edited, with William Olsen, Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life. Her awards include NEA Fellowships in Poetry, arts grants from Tennessee and Washington, and an Arvon […]

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Steven Cramer & Rachel Manley

Online Zoom Event

Steven Cramer published his sixth poetry collection, Listen, this year. Previous collections include Clangings and Goodbye to the Orchard, 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 the Book. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the […]

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Alumni Pajama Party and All-Genre Invitational

Online Zoom Event

We at Cambridge Common Writers are pleased to invite you to the second virtual Alumni Pajama Party and All-Genre Invitational at the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program's January residency. We've got an excellent line-up of readers from all genres and hope to see you there! Aqueela C. Britt (Fiction, June 2018)Fabia Oliveira (Nonfiction, 2017)Lisa […]

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