LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series from Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, and Larissa Shmailo of Scribes Media. This event features Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) reading from his new poetry collection, Listen.
Join Ann and Hester (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) for an hour of writing prompts, critiques, and community! Writers of all stages in their writing lives welcome. A new workshop begins every Monday weeks of November 2, 9, and 16. Sessions are held 12:00 - 1:00pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Zoom. Space is limited.
Join Les Bleues Literary Salon for an online event with writers Jeff Bens, Sara Schaff, Tara Isabel Zambrano and our own Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009) and they talk about their works.
Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture present Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation, which showcases contemporary elegies and critical ruminations from the recent volume Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). The co-editors of the volume, Sequoia Maner, darlene anita […]
In this second-generation Holocaust memoir, Gruenberg, confronted with her elderly father’s flashbacks, explores the life of her aunt Mia, who disappeared in Germany in 1941. After her father’s death, Gruenberg traveled to Vienna, Germany and Israel to explore this lost landscape, and to trace the fates of Mia, their extended family, friends and neighbors. Join […]
Ella, Labrador Inuk (Nonfiction, June 2018), is involved in the BIPOC poetry group led by Straw Dog Writers' Guild member Nicole M. Young. Their group met for six months and will have a chapbook published. They will have a reading on Zoom on December 5th. Attendees will be able to purchase the book prior to […]
Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010) and Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) will co-host this online event. The Solidarity Salon is a performance series that features literary, musical, visual, theater, and movement artists who gather together to share their creations and aims to especially amplify the voices of women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ persons, and those […]
This online event will feature readings by our own Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009), as well as E.A. Aymar, Nandini Bhattacharya, Katie Gutierrez, Liliana Morrison, Danielle Williams, Lauren Woods, Benjamin Woodard, and Danielle Zaccagnino.
Celebrate the first night of Chanukah with the Vilna and author Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction, June 2007). In the early 2000s, a family crisis set Boston physician Lisa Gruenberg on the unexpected path to being a writer. In 2012, she received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and in 2019, she published her […]
Chapter and Verse is a free literary reading series sponsored by the Jamaica Pond Poets, usually on the second Friday of the month, from October through May. The operating committee members are Dorothy Derifield, Sandra Storey, Susanna Kittridge, Jennifer Markell, and Alan Smith Soto. Events have three readers followed by free refreshments. Open to all.
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 […]
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 […]