Resources
Poetry Websites:
http://www.poets.org/ -- Gives you biographies, poems, literary terms, historical context, and recordings of poets reading their own work. It's a good place to go if you like a poem and want to read more work by that author.
http://www.newpages.com/ -- Gives a comprehensive list of current literary journals.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ -- Gives articles, news, blogs, recordings, poems, links, etc.
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ -- Offers a complete collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. A good resource to keep in mind when we're studying sonnets.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas/ -- An online journal that publishes sestinas.
Literary Readings:
There are two good listserves in Boston that notify you whenever there is a poetry/fiction reading coming up. The first is Daniel Bouchard's (faculty member at MIT) listserve, who you can contact at his email address: bouchard@mit.edu. (Just write to him and ask him to put you on his listserve.) The second good listserve is sent out by the AGNI literary journal. You can sign up for that listserve on their website.
Upcoming readings:
Thursday, November 5, 5 pm
Nathaniel Tarn
WPR Recording Session
Woodberry Poetry Room
Lamont Library, Room 330
Harvard University
Thursday, November 5, 7 pm
Tomaz Salamun
(Dis)locations: Poetry and Place: a reading and conversation
Moderator: David Rivard
Barrister's Hall
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st floor
Friday, November 6, 3 pm
Alan Bernheimer
Woodberry Poetry Room
Lamont Library, Room 330
Harvard University
Friday, November 6, 7 - 10 pm
Opening Reception: SOMEWHERE FAR FROM HABIT: THE POET AND THE ARTIST'S BOOK
10 poets paired with 10 book artists. Work from Joy Harjo, Aaron Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Robert Pinsky, Michael Burkard, E. Ethelbert Miller, Tom Sleigh, Lucie Brock-Broido, Liam Rector and Jason Shinder. The book artists include Buzz Spector, Ben Blount, Kerri Cushman, Audrey Niffenegger, Margot Ecke, Richard Minsky, Shawn Sheehy, Karen Kunc, and Beatrice Coron.
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA
Friday, November 6, 7:30 pm
Marguerite Bouvard, Richard Hoffman, and Elizabeth Quinlan
Chapter and Verse
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain Centre
Friday, November 6, 8 pm
Nathan Graziano, Daniel Crocker, and Rebecca Schumejda
Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street
Cambridge
Saturday, November 7, 3 pm
Nathaniel Tarn, Jorie Graham, Kevin Goodan, Nadia Herman Colburn & Ruthann Rudel
Continuities Readings & Discussions: Poetry & Ecology
In this new series founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn, Kevin Goodan, Jorie Graham and Nathaniel Tarn explore the relationship between poetry and the natural world. Faced with ecological devastation, species extinction, climate change and toxic waste, how does the poetic imagination influence the choices we make and help effect change?
The Burren
247 Elm Street
Davis Square
Somerville
Saturday, November 7, 6 pm
Joanna Howard and Brian Oakley
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
Sunday Nov 8, 12:30 pm
Nancy Brady Cunningham
The Art of Words/Mike Amado Memorial Series
11 North St
Plymouth, MA
Sunday, November 8, 2 pm
8th Annual Tribute to Anne Sexton by poets Victor Howes, Lois Ames,
Suzanne Berger, and Robert J. Clawson.
Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Ave.
Jamaica Plain, MA
Sunday, November 8, 3 pm
Bill Coyle and Frannie Lindsay
featured followed by Open Mic
Concord Poetry Center
Emerson Umbrella for the Arts
40 Stow Street
Concord, Mass
Monday, Novenber 9, 5 pm
David Baker
Tisch Library Room 314
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Monday, November 9, 7 pm
Brian Foley, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli
The Rendezvous
78 3rd St.
Turners Falls, MA
Monday, November 9, 8 pm
Henri Cole and Marilyn Chin
Blacksmith House
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 pm
Sam Cornish, Charles Coe, and Susan Donnelly
The Piemonte Room
Boston City Hall
Boston
Thursday, November 12, 7 pm
Dmitry Golynko and Eugene Ostashevsky
St. Petersburg Review and New England Poetry Club sponsored
Common Room 136
Yenching Library
Harvard University
2 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Free
November 12, 7 pm
Fred Marchant, Ben Mazer
The Library Reading Room (2nd floor)
The New England Institute of Art,
10 Brookline Place West
Brookline
Thursday, November 12, 7 pm
John Koethe
MIT Room 32-141
[enter at 32 Vassar Street - the Dr. Seuss building]
Poetry@MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Friday, November 13, 7 pm
Carolyn Gregory
Jamaicaway Books,
676 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
Saturday, November 14, 3 pm
Quincy Lehr and Rick Mullin
Powow River Poets Reading Series
Jabberwocky Bookshop
50 Water Street
Newburyport, MA
Saturday, November 14, 6 pm
Oni Buchanan and Karl Gartung
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
Saturday, November 14, 7 pm
Rick Moody, Frank Bidart, Margot Livesey, John Buffalo Mailer, Steve Almond, Lise Haines and Kim Chinquee, Sam Cornish, Richard Hoffman, Tino Villanueva, Tam Lin Neville and Douglas Holder
The Center for the Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Ave.
Somerville
$10 admission
Monday, November 16, 7 pm
Nick Flynn & Douglas A. Martin
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Harvard University
Monday, November 16, 8 pm
Ron Slate and Leslie Harrison
Blacksmith House
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Thursday, November 19, 7 pm
David R. Slavitt
reads from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
Harvard Coop
Harvard Square
Saturday, November 21, 10:30 am
David Daniel and Marylou Ferrante
HCAM TV Studios
77 Main St.
Hopkinton, MA
Saturday, November 21, 3:30 pm
Wendy Mnookin and Daniel Tobin
Brockton Library
304 Main Street
Brockton, MA
Saturday, November 21, 4 - 6 pm
Celebrate new Pressed Wafer titles by Aaron Tieger, Kevin Bowen, Margo Lockwood. George Scialabba, August Kleinzahler,
Maged Zaher and Gerald Coble.
Brief readings by Tieger, Bowen, Lockwood and Taylor Stoehr.
The Plough and Stars
912 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge
Saturday, November 21, 6 pm
C.S. Carrier, Deborah Bernhardt and James Copeland
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
Sunday, November 22, 3 pm
Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Small Animal Project Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square
Cambridge
Sunday, November 22, 3-5 pm
Adelaide Cummings, Susan Nisenbaum Becker, and Bert Stern
Calliope
West Falmouth Library
575 West Falmouth Highway
Falmouth, MA
Donation: $5. Refreshments provided
Tuesday, November 24, 6 pm
Eileen Myles and Mark Doty
Act-Up Poetic Retrospective
In conjunction with the exhibit "Act-Up New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993'" the poets will be joined by Harvard undergraduate poets, who will recite works by poets whose works have compelled attention to the AIDS crisis, among them Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Thom Gunn, Tony Kushner and James Merrill.
Thompson Room
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Harvard University
Monday, Novemberr 30, 8 pm
Joseph Massey and Claire Donato
Deja Brew Pub
57 Lockes Village Rd
Wendell, MA
sliding scale $1-$5
Monday, November 30, 8 pm
Phil Fried and Karen Chase
Blacksmith House
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Tuesday, December 1, 7 pm
Joan Houlihan with Fred Marchant
Suffolk University
Sawyer Library, 3rd floor
73 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Wednesday, December 2, 7pm
Joan Houlihan
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December 3, 6 pm
Mary Olivery
Coolidge Corner Theater
sponsored by Brookline Booksmith and Beacon Press
Coolidge Corner
Brookline
$5
CONTACT: Michelle J. Richard - Beacon Press - 617.948.6580
Friday, December 4, 7:30 pm
Deborah Di Nicola, Anne Fowler, and Steven Riel
Chapter and Verse
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain Centre
Saturday, December 5, 3 pm
Carol Weston & Douglas Rothschild
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square
Cambridge
Saturday, December 5, 6 pm
Kate Greenstreet and Joshua Harmon
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
Monday, December 7, 7 pm
Fred Marchant and Afar Michael Weaver
Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave off Kirkland
near Memorial Hall
Cambridge
Monday, December 7, 8 pm
Fanny Howe and Martha Ronk
Blacksmith House
56 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Tuesday, December 8, 2:30 pm
Lisa Robertson
Writers On Writing Reading Series
McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown St.
Providence, RI
free and open to the public
Saturday, December 12, 7 pm
New Poets of RI
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
Monday, December 14, 8 pm
Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich
Small Animal Project Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square
Cambridge
Saturday, December 19, 3:30 pm
Faye George and Everett Hoagland
Brockton Library
304 Main Street
Brockton, MA
Saturday, December 19, 6 pm
Kevin Holden and Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
Ada Books
717 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
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