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SUMMARY:Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary
DESCRIPTION:Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a reading with Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan (Poetry\, June 2014) and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016). \n\n\n\nRegistration required. This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grolier-poetry-book-shop-presents-cynthia-bargar-shari-caplan-and-hannah-larrabee-with-an-introduction-by-eileen-cleary/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Michelle Knudsen & Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Michelle Knudsen (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nMICHELLE KNUDSEN is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for children and teens\, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion\, which was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. Her other books include the picture book Marilyn’s Monster (NPR’s Best Books) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). She writes about love\, friendship\, dragons\, demons\, magic\, musical theater\, and\, sometimes\, giant spiders. She also writes occasional short stories for adults. Her next book will be LUIGI\, THE SPIDER WHO WANTED TO BE A KITTEN\, coming March 5\, 2024\, from Candlewick Press. \n\n\n\nPAMELA PETRO is a writer\, artist\, and educator. She works in both research nonfiction and memoir—often braiding the two together—and as a visual artist works with experimental forms of photography. In addition to the MFA\, she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St David. Her essays have been published in Lumina\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, Slab\, and Harvard Review Online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-michelle-knudsen-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Public Library Presents Story Time with Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join patrons of the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday\, January 6th to hear Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) read Sensitive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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 inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cambridge-public-library-presents-story-time-with-sara-levine/
LOCATION:Cambridge Public Library (O’Neill Branch)\, 70 Rindge Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:All Lesley Reads: Ukranian Writing in a Time of Russian Invasion
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nFrom 3:00 to 4:00\, Askold and Olena will join Yuliya from Ukraine\, for a conversation about poetry\,literature\, translation\, writing\, and the arts in Ukraine now and in the past\, exploring what it means towork as an international artist during war. From 4:00 to 5:00\, Yuliya will read from her poetry.Questions and responses will be invited after each event. This event will be both in person and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-lesley-reads-ukranian-writing-in-a-time-of-russian-invasion/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kevin Prufer & Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nKEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies\, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books)\, winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.  Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series\, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Among Prufer’s awards and honors are four Pushcart prizes and multiple Best American Poetry selections\, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. \n\n\n\nJASON REYNOLDS is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason’s many books include Miles Morales: Spider Man\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Correta Scott King Honor\, and Look Both Ways\, which was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book\, Stamped: Racism\, Antiracism\, and You\, is a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi. Recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature\, Jason has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, and CBS This Morning.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kevin-prufer-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - History as Story\, not Grocery List: Writing Factual Middle Grade
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-history-as-story-not-grocery-list-writing-factual-middle-grade/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
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SUMMARY:Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - Bringing History to Young Readers
DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS: Tracey Baptiste\, Chris Lynch\, Patricia Pearson. Moderator: Sara Farizan. \n\n\n\nThis event will be both in person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-bringing-history-to-young-readers/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kate Snodgrass & Chris Lynch
DESCRIPTION: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 person and online. \n\n\n\nKATE SNODGRASS served as the Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon (which she co-founded) until 2022. She is Professor Emerita of the Practice of Playwriting at Boston University. Snodgrass is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) National Chair of the Playwriting Program\, a former vice president of StageSource\, Inc.\, and a member of Actors’ Equity\, A.F.T.R.A.\, and the Dramatists Guild. \n\n\n\nCHRIS LYNCH is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels\, including Printz Honor Book Freewill\, Iceman\, Gypsy Davey\, and Shadow Boxer—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as well as Killing Time in Crystal City\, Little Blue Lies\, Pieces\, Kill Switch\, Angry Young Man\, and Inexcusable\, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris is the author of middle grade novel Walkin’ the Dog. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kate-snodgrass-chris-lynch/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Steven Cramer & Janet Pocorobba
DESCRIPTION: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 in-person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nSTEVEN CRAMER is the author of six poetry collections and has published poems and essays in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly\, Field\, The Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The New England Review\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry.  Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, he founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.  He writes poems and about poems.  If he could write more lucratively\, he doesn’t know if he would\, but he can’t so he doesn’t. Some of the poems from his latest collection\, Listen\, out in October 2020 from MadHat Press\, are available online through his website. \n\n\n\nJANET POCOROBBA writes memoir and essay and is currently writing a hybrid memoir about a co-op in a village in Vermont that incorporates personal memoir and social history. She is the author of The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me\, and has published other work in lit mags\, most recently “Stalking the Self: Finding a Point of View in Memoir\,” Writers’ Digest Sept/Oct 2021.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-steven-cramer-janet-pocorobba/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Jody Hobbs Hesler & Adria Karlsson
DESCRIPTION: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 person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nJODY HOBBS HESLER is the author of the story collection What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better (Cornerstone Press\, October 2023)\, and the novel\, Without You Here (Flexible Press\, September 2024). Her words also appear in Necessary Fiction\, Gargoyle\, Valparaiso Fiction Review (x\, x)\, Atticus Review\, Writer’s Digest\, Electric Literature\, CRAFT\, Arts & Letters\, and many other journals. She teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville\, Virginia; writes and copyedits for Virginia Wine & Country Life and Charlottesville Family Magazine; and serves as assistant fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review. \n\n\n\nOnce upon a time\, ADRIA KARLSSON may have been found teaching people\, training cats and dogs\, or tutoring dyslexic kids\, but now they spend their time writing and parenting. Their life seems full of unexpected twists\, but also adventure – as an author they get to ask lots of questions\, figure out answers\, and share what they’ve learned through make-believe. That’s definitely its own kind of happily ever after.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-jody-hobbs-hesler-adria-karlsson/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Shamar Hill\, Enzo Silon Surin\, and Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought\, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow. RSVP Required. \n\n\n\nShamar Hill\, a Black and Jewish writer\, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Cave Canem\, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published in the American Poetry Review\, the Missouri Review\, Washington Square Review\, and Poetry Northwest\, among others. He is working on his memoir\, In Defiance of All True Things\, and a poetry collection\, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born award-winning poet\, author\, educator\, speaker\, publisher and social advocate. He has taught\, performed\, and lectured at schools\, universities\, festivals and serves as a keynote speaker on topics such as social justice\, mental health reform\, the immigrant experience\, and racial disparities. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. He is also Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. \n\n\n\nMartha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry\, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022)\, and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry\, Dreaming the Mountain\, poems by Tue Sy (Milkweed\, 2023). Her tenth book of poems\, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019)\, won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; earlier books\, which have won several awards\, include three focusing on race and racism (Admit One: An American Scrapbook\, White Papers\, Blue Front). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and served for ten years as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-of-poetry-with-shamar-hill-enzo-silon-surin-and-martha-collins-2/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, New York\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T203000
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SUMMARY:Writing for Healing Workshop with Amy Mevorach
DESCRIPTION: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 you write\, in prose or poetry\, with the intent to heal and release. Drawing from the psychological insights of Judith Hermann\, Natalie Goldberg\, and Gabor Mate\, you will discuss the ways the body holds onto trauma and how expressing ourselves through writing can help us heal. Sharing your writing with the group is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\nThis class will meet in-person at CCAE on Wednesdays for 8 sessions. \n\n\n\nAmy Mevorach (Nonfiction January 2023) has published essays and fiction in The New York Times Modern Love column\, Boulevard Magazine\, CALYX Journal\, Glimmer Train Stories\, and other publications. Her award-winning poem “Eight” has been screened at film festivals in L.A. and Toronto\, and is available to watch on her website amymevorach.com. Amy has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Lesley University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-healing-workshop-with-amy-mevorach/
LOCATION:Cambridge Center for Adult Education\, 42 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T200000
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SUMMARY:D. Dina Friedman IMMIGRANTS Book Launch
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nWith sensitivity and wit\, Friedman creates a tableau of characters\, scenery\, sounds\, smells\, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. \n\n\n\nIn this compelling collection of stories\, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande\, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in multicultural New York\, where an old woman obsessed with anti-Semitism during the Black Death faces a moral dilemma when her housekeeper asks to borrow money to bail out her undocumented brother; and in a New England home\, where bats in the attic are threatening the last vestiges of stability for a divorced and desperate middle-aged white woman and her twenty-something Chinese American tenant. \n\n\n\nThese stories explore the deep ambiguities in how we perceive each other. Readers will grow to love Friedman’s characters\, flawed as they are\, as they grapple toward a deeper caring for the world around them. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nIn addition to this new short story collection for the adult market\, D. Dina Friedman is also the author of two award-winning novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon & Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux)\, and two books of poetry\, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2024). In Immigrants\, Friedman draws on her childhood in multicultural Queens\, her adulthood in rural New England\, her travels toIndia and the U.S./Mexico border\, and her years as an activist working for Middle East peace and immigration justice.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/d-dina-friedman-immigrants-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Odyssey Bookshop\, 9 College St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075\, United States
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