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No meetings in January
Monday, February 2nd
SAM CORNISH reads from his new book, plus members
reading love poems. Members, please bring a love poem or two!
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Monday, April 6th
Panel on Publishing by Poets Who Edit:
The Perils of starting a press
DOUG HOLDER, editor Ibbetson Street Press,
VALERIE LAWSON, founder, editor Off The Coast,
GLORIA MINDOCK, founder, editor Cervena Barva Press
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
DOUG HOLDER is also a founder of Bagel Bards, and publishes their
anthologies along with Steve Glines. Doug has three new chapbooks,
The Man in the Booth, No One Dies At Au Bon Pain, and
Wrestling With My Father, all garnering excellent reviews.
VALERIE LAWSON is also the former editor of South Shore Poet,
a prize-winning slam poet, has traveled to Europe and Ireland on
youth poetry cultural exchange programs, and edits Off the Coast
with Michael Brown.
GLORIA MINDOCK was also the founder and former editor of the
Boston Literary Review, and has two new chapbooks, and the
forthcoming Blood Soaked Dresses, which will be translated
into Romanian. She also works as a social worker.
Monday, April 20th
ALICIA BORINSKY, Frivolous Women and Other Sorrows
COLA FRANZEN, translator of Spanish poetry
TINO VILLANUEVA, a founder of the Chicano Renaissance
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
ALICIA BORINSKY is also a winner of Latino Literary Award,
Guggenheim fellowships, and an author of both fiction and poetry.
COLA FRANZEN's fiction and scholarly work has won the Harold
Morton Landon translation award and is also the author of 17 books
of translations including the poets of Arab Andalusia.
TINO VILLANUEVA is the winner of the American Book Award in 1994
and writes in both Spansih and English. He has been called one of
the founders of the Chicano Renaissance, and received his PhD
from Boston University, where he currently teaches.
Monday, May 4th
Poets Who Edit:
VIVIAN SHIPLEY, editor of The Connecticut Review,
JACK BEDELL, editor of Louisiana Literature
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Sunday, June 7th
Family Poetry Day
Featuring winners of our children's contests
East Lawn
Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge
Sunday, June 28th
Salute to JOHN UPDIKE with
CHRISTOPHER LYDON, journalist, tv and radio celebrity,
X.J. KENNEDY, poet and editor, and
F.D. REEVE, poet, scholar and novelist
East Lawn
Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge
Sunday, July 12th
Golden Rose reading with CHARLES SIMIC
Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate
East Lawn
Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge
Sunday, July 26th
PAUL MULDOON poet, professor, poetry editor at the New Yorker
East Lawn
Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge
Sunday, August 23rd
Poet and editor NATHALIE HANDAL will speak about
Language for a New Century, a new book from
Norton on poetry from the Middle East, Near East, and Far East.
She will be briefly interviewed by MICHAEL ARCHER, founder
and editor of Guernica: Magazine of Art and Politics.
They will be joined by poets MARTHA COLLINS, DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN
FRED MARCHANT and AFAA WEAVER reading from the anthology.
East Lawn
Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge
Monday, September 14th
RICHARD FEIN reads from With Everything We've Got,
an anthology of Yiddish poetry. Richard Fein is the author
of seven collections of poetry, including Mother Tongue.
His collection Kafka's Ear won the Maurice English Award.
Also, LEN KRISAK reads his winning poem for
the NEPC Der-Hovanessian Translation Award.
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Monday, October 5th
The winner of The Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award,
ANNA ROSS, reading from her chapbook, Hawk Weather,
and ANDREW SOFER and SARAH GETTY, co-winners of the
Rosalie Boyle/Norma Farber Award, RICHARD HOFFMAN, winner
of the Gretchen Warren Award, and other prize winners.
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Monday, November 2nd
JIM KATES, poet, literary translator and editorial
co-director of Zephyr Press, also serving as president of
ALTA, reads his translations of the Russian poet Mikhail Aizenberg
(Say Thank You, Zephyr Press 2007) and the French poet
Jean-Pierre Rosnay (When a Poet Sees a Chestnut Tree,
Green Integer Press, 2009.
And other NEPC prize winners.
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Thursday, November 12th
Reading by St. Petersburg Review
with ELIZABETH HODGES, DMITRY GOLYNKO, and
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Monday, December 7th
May Sarton Awardees Reading
FRED MARCHANT and AFAA WEAVER.
Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
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