Poetry Is Not a Luxury Day 1: Poetic Freedom (Live Podcast Taping)

Grounded in the sentiment of Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” this two-day gathering brings contemporary artists and poets together with museum audiences to explore poetry’s ability to invoke sensuality, caesura, and care. Designed by 2023 Poet-in-Residence Ama Codjoe, this convening of discussion and exchange will illuminate poetry’s role in enabling humans to imagine, dream, and craft the kind of language that precipitates political action, communal nurturing, and social change.

Free with RSVP. Registration is…

Poetry Is Not a Luxury Day 2: Poetic License

Grounded in the sentiment of Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” this two-day gathering brings contemporary artists and poets together with museum audiences to explore poetry’s ability to invoke sensuality, caesura, and care. Designed by 2023 Poet-in-Residence Ama Codjoe, this convening of discussion and exchange will illuminate poetry’s role in enabling humans to imagine, dream, and craft the kind of language that precipitates political action, communal nurturing, and social change.

Free with RSVP. Registration is required. Please…

Join Elizabeth Metzger in conversation about Lying In, with Timothy Donnelly.

Celebrated writer Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red, will visit Paris Gibson Museum of Art for a book reading, discussion, and signing of her new novel, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition and GrubStreet are delighted to present the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut event series, featuring Shilpi Suneja, author of House of Caravans! Prize-winning author Daphne Kalotay will join the author in conversation

JJJJJerome Ellis presents an improvisational lecture-performance on his ongoing research on music, stuttering, race, and nature.

In this improvisational lecture-performance, composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis will share some of his ongoing research on intersections between music, stuttering, race, and nature. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, he’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century black runaway slaves who stuttered.

The event will be livestreamed via the Harvard University Department of Music Youtube Channel.

1 to 2 PM — Creative Writing Prize Showcase
Featuring readings by award-winning student writers Mialise Carney, Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, Celeste Jones, Sharon K. McClain, James T. Morrison, Alejandro Perea-Sanchez, Jacob Reina, Kaylee Ruiz, and Alberto Saldaña Uribe. With introductions by student writer Stella Velez.

2:30 to 4 PM — Debut Authors
Featuring readings by alumni authors Pilar Christiana Graham, Padraig Hogan, and Gabriel Ibarra. With introductions by alumni writer Angela Chaidez Vincent, and a book signing to follow.

4 to 6 PM — Break
Dinner on your own.

6 to 7:30 PM —…

Kaleidoscope members and their guests are invited to peek behind the covers—and behind the curtain—of Milkweed Editions. Join Milkweed Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager, author and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, and Milkweed Fellow Moheb Soliman to learn more about the Seedbank series of world literature and how these books come to life.

Join Jennifer duBois for a reading and conversation about her latest novel The Last Language.

Join Shilpi Suneja for a reading and conversation about her debut novel House of Caravans.