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A reading from Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Online Event

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 […]

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CCW Poetry Open Mic featuring Jennifer LeBlanc

Online Zoom Event

CCW Poetry Open Mic with featured poet Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012), author of Descent (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Join on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30pm Eastern to share your verse! We have 20 slots available, so sign-up here.

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Kevin Prufer – THE ART OF FICTION and Craig Morgan Teicher – WELCOME TO SONNETVILLE, NEW JERSEY

Online Zoom Event

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 […]

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Elegy: Poems of Loss and Hope, a Reading with Steven Cramer

Online Zoom Event

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 […]

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Breakwater Reading Series — Julia Leef

Online Zoom Event

Breakwater's online reading series will have its last event of the semester this Friday, April 30th. Featuring Lauren Fitch, Nicole Graev Lipson, Julia Leef (Fiction, June 2018), and Spencer Johnson. The Breakwater Reading Series brings together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction MFA candidates from UMass Boston, Boston University, Lesley University, and Emerson College.

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Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

Cambridge Common Writers is proud to host a celebration of Celeste Mohammed's (Fiction, June 2016) debut novel-in-stories, Pleasantview. Join us for a reading by Celeste, as well as appearances by some special guests! Click here to register for this Zoom event. Celeste Mohammed’s work has appeared in The New England Review, Litmag, Epiphany, and The […]

Building Alexandria Book Launch: Clarissa Adkins

Online Event

Join Clarissa Adkins (Poetry, June 2018) at the launch of her first poetry collection, Building Alexandria. The event will be hosted by Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) and Clarissa will be interviewed by Rex Arrasmith (Fiction, January 2018; Poetry, June 2020). “Clarissa Adkins has a mind I’d love to inhabit, fully attuned to the strangenesses […]

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Dr. Lisa Gruenberg discusses her memoir My City of Dreams with Dr. David Urion

Online Event

Join author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction, June 2007) for a special virtual conversation with Dr. David Urion about her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams. This event, hosted by the bioethics centers of Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will not only discuss Gruenberg’s personal journey, but will also […]

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White Whale Bookstore Presents Springtime Online Reading & Conversation: Karin Cecile Davidson & William Lychack

Online Zoom Event

Celebrating Karin Cecile Davidson's (Fiction, June 2009) Sybelia Drive and William Lychack's Cargill Falls. Karin Cecile Davidson is originally from the Gulf Coast. Her novel Sybelia Drive was published by Braddock Avenue Books in Autumn 2020. Her stories have appeared in Story Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Five Points Journal, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Fine Arts Work Center Summer […]

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Massachusetts Poetry Festival — Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic

Online Zoom Event

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, […]

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We Contain Multitudes: Supporting Diverse Diversity Within Asian American Voices

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Featuring Debbi Michiko Florence, Christina Soontornvat, Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011), Veera Hiranandani, and Mike Jung. Join Middle Grade authors as they share their experiences growing up as Asian Americans and how their backgrounds influence the books they write. Discussion will center on the need for MANY Asian American penned novels to reflect the diversity […]

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