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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 5 - Laureates of the Caribbean with Enzo Surin
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival\, this event will feature Enzo Surin (Poetry\, 2012)\, Roberto Carlos Garcia\, Iyaba Mandingo\, Geoffrey Philp\, Saida Agostini Bostic\, and Andre Bagoo. Hosted by Tanya Batson-Savage and Attillab Springer.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/brooklyn-caribbean-literary-festival-5-laureates-of-the-caribbean-with-enzo-surin/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival":MAILTO:contact@bklyncbeanlitfest.com
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio\, Eliot Cardinaux\, and Rebecca Faulkner
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton\, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017)\, Eliot Cardinaux\, and Rebecca Faulkner. \n\n\n\nMichael W Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts\, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly Amherst Poetry Festival) and is the associate editor of the Naugatuck River Review. Michael is also on the Board of Directors for Faraday Publishing\, a nonprofit press with the mission of amplifying marginalized voices. His poetry has been published in Rust + Moth\, Crab Creek Review\, The Indianapolis Review\, and Palette Poetry\, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-of-poetry-music-with-michael-mercurio-eliot-cardinaux-and-rebecca-faulkner/
LOCATION:Anchor House of Artists\, 518 Pleasant Street\, Northampton\, Massachusetts\, 01002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Shamar Hill\, Enzo Silon Surin\, and Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought\, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow in the bar. RSVP required. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born\, award-winning poet\, educator\, librettist\, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, May 2023)\, which interrogates the socio-political framework of a democracy at war with itself and its humanity\, and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry. He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2022)\, and the recipient of a number of honors including a Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation and grants from the New England Poetry Club and Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. Surin’s work has been featured in numerous publications including by the Poetry Foundation and in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets and has been commissioned by the Boston Opera Collaborative. He is Founding Editor and Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, Inc.\, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. \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\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/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, New York\, 10038\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Salem Public Library Reading Series - Celia Jeffries
DESCRIPTION:Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction\, 2008) will kick off the Friends of the New Salem Public Library’s Local Author Series with a reading from Blue Desert. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/new-salem-public-library-reading-series-celia-jeffries/
LOCATION:New Salem Public Library\, 23 S Main Street\, New Salem\, Massachusetts\, 01355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Working Title Boston - Queer Poetry Night!
DESCRIPTION:L Scully’s (Nonfiction\, January 2023) reading series\, “Working Title” will host the next event at the Lucy Parsons Center. Reader list and further details TBA.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/working-title-boston-queer-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Lucy Parsons Center\, 358 Centre St A\, Jamaica Plain\, Massachusetts\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Toni Morrison with Amy Mevorach
DESCRIPTION:Toni Morrison wrote\, “It seems to me that the best art is political\, and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful simultaneously.” In this seminar\, participants will read Morrison’s first novel\, The Bluest Eye\, and several of her essays or speeches\, exploring how Morrison uses a colonial language — English — to decolonize literature and restore Black culture and community. You don’t have to consider yourself a writer to join the class\, only a willingness to approach Morrison’s work with an eye for a writer’s craft and intention. \n\n\n\n6 Wednesdays\, 7-8:30pm Begins Sep. 20. This class will meet in-person at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Limited availability. \n\n\n\nInstructor\, Amy Mevorach \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/writers-read-toni-morrison-with-amy-mevorach/
LOCATION:Cambridge Center for Adult Education\, 42 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Red Shoes; a Phantasmagoric Ballet on Paper" Chapbook Launch
DESCRIPTION:A reading and multimedia presentation to celebrate the publication of Shari Caplan’s (Poetry\, June 2014) “The Red Shoes; a phantasmagoric ballet on paper.”
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-red-shoes-a-phantasmagoric-ballet-on-paper-chapbook-launch/
LOCATION:Somerville Theatre\, 55 Davis Square\, Somerville\, Massachusetts\, 02144\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Inflectionist Reading Series 11: Toti O'Brien\, Michael Mercurio\, Patrick Meeds
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems\, critical essays\, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry\, The Inflectionist Review\, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club)\, Lily Poetry Review\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Bear Review\, Sugar House Review\, Rust + Moth\, Coal Hill Review\, the Common\, and elsewhere.  \n\n\n\nMichael curates What The Universe Is: A Reading Series\, which happens monthly on Zoom. He is the Director of Community Engagement for the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering discourse of enduring value rooted in the work and experiences of the global majority\, and he also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival\, held each September at Emily Dickinson’s house. You can find out more about Michael at poetmercurio.com. \n\n\n\nToti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome\, living in Los Angeles\, she is an artist\, musician and dancer. She is the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX\, 2020)\, An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press\, 2020)\, In Her Terms (Cholla Needles Press\, 2021)\, Pages of a Broken Diary (Pski’s Porch\, 2022) and Alter Alter (Elyssar Press\, 2022). \n\n\n\nPatrick Meeds lives in Syracuse\, NY and studies writing at the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center. He has been previously published in Stone Canoe literary journal\, the New Ohio Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, the Atticus Review\, Whiskey Island\, Guernica\, The Main Street Rag\, and Nine Mile Review among others. \n\n\n\nThe reading will be followed by a Q&A with the poets.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-inflectionist-reading-series-11-toti-obrien-michael-mercurio-patrick-meeds/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Join Brown Bookstore for the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo’s debut book All Water Has Perfect Memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife changes forever for six-year-old Nada when Iraq’s invasion of her birth country of Kuwait pushes her mother to immigrate with her to the United States. Just as she finally settles into her strange new existence apart from her father in Rhode Island\, learns English\, and grasps the fact that she is there to stay\, Nada begins discovering revelation after revelation that changes her perspective on her world and family. \n\n\n\nWith an imaginative blend of folklore and history that explores the relationship between our bodies\, ancestors\, and the lands that hold us\, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers through the author’s ancestral origins-the coast of Palestine\, Kuwait\, and the shores of Rhode Island- and explores generations of silence and eventually\, connection.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-all-water-has-perfect-memory-by-nada-samih-rotondo-2/
LOCATION:Brown Bookstore\, 244 Thayer Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02912\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T190000
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SUMMARY:U35: Mass Poetry Reading Series featuring Shari Caplan
DESCRIPTION:U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35. The series seeks to promote and bolster young Massachusetts poets while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets. If you are a poet under the age of 35\, sign up to read via Mass Poetry’s website! This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nFeatured poets: \n\n\n\n\nJordan Barnes\n\n\n\nShari Caplan (Poetry\, June 2014)\n\n\n\nNathan Erwin\n\n\n\nDariana Guerrero\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility Information: \n\n\n\nTrident Booksellers & Cafe and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Readings take place in the upstairs cafe. Please reach out to daniel@masspoetry.org and they will do their best to accommodate any and all requests.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/u35-mass-poetry-reading-series-featuring-shari-caplan/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 338 Newbury Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02115\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T153000
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SUMMARY:Displaced: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Faraday Publishing and UMass Museum of Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the exhibition ‘Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness‘\, this reading and conversation considers the struggle of navigating between multiple\, often contentious\, identities. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) will be in conversation with Samuel Miranda\, moderated by Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/displaced-a-poetry-reading-and-conversation-with-faraday-publishing-and-umass-museum-of-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Emily Dickinson Museum\, 280 Main Street\, Amherst\, Massachusetts\, 01002\, United States
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