6:00pm EDT
Lit Crawl: City of Notions
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Ed Barrett is author of more than ten books of poetry, including The Boston Trilogy: Rub Out (2003), Kevin White (2007), and Bosston (2008). His plays and libretto for opera include Rhapsody Antigone (1982) and Shaman (1987). Edward Barrett (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Senior Lecturer...
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Nick Flynn is the author of three memoirs, all published by Norton: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into fifteen languages, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (2010...
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Danielle Legros Georges is a poet, writer, and professor at Lesley University. In 2014 she was appointed Poet Laureate of the City of Boston, a position from which she acts as an advocate for poetry, language, and the arts, and creates a unique artistic legacy through public readings...
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Regie Gibson is an author, lecturer, and literarymusician who has lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba, and Europe. As a representative of the U.S., Gibson competed for and received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy. He and his work appear in love jones, a...
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Fred Marchant is the author of four books of poetry, including Full Moon Boat, The Looking House, and his most recent collection, Said Not Said, all from Graywolf Press. His first book, Tipping Point, won the 1993 Washington Prize from The Word Works, and was recently re-issued in...
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Tufts University
Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Her previous books include If a Storm (winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry), Figuring (Bull City Press), and Hawk Weather (winner the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award...
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Erick Verran is a writer and poet based in Allston, Massachusetts.
Established in 2014, The Boston Literary District is the first cultural district in the United States dedicated to letters. Our mission is to work with local writers, educational and literary organizations to raise the profile of Boston as a literary city and to increase participation...
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The BID is a private, non-profit corporation created and maintained by property owners. The BID serves the entire downtown community -- businesses, employees, residents, students, and more. Their mission is to transform and engage Downtown Boston through programs and supplemental...
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Originally hatched in a San Francisco pub in 1999, Litstock debuted as a free one-day reading series in Golden Gate Park. Founding writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware realized quickly that book lovers craved something grander. Against the backdrop of a technology-crazed San Francisco...
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8:00pm EDT
Lit Crawl: Words and Music
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Nick Flynn is the author of three memoirs, all published by Norton: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into fifteen languages, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (2010...
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Kelle Groom's memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, a Library Journal Best Memoir, Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, Oprah O Magazine selection...
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Kristin Hersh is the founding member of influential art punk band Throwing Muses and author of several books. Her most recent publication is the memoir "Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chestnut" (University of Texas Press). https://www.kristinhersh.com
Clea Simon is a music journalist whose latest suspense novel, World Enough, is set in Boston's music scene. Clea’s nonfiction books are Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings (Doubleday, 1997), Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads (Wiley...
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Established in 2014, The Boston Literary District is the first cultural district in the United States dedicated to letters. Our mission is to work with local writers, educational and literary organizations to raise the profile of Boston as a literary city and to increase participation...
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The BID is a private, non-profit corporation created and maintained by property owners. The BID serves the entire downtown community -- businesses, employees, residents, students, and more. Their mission is to transform and engage Downtown Boston through programs and supplemental...
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Originally hatched in a San Francisco pub in 1999, Litstock debuted as a free one-day reading series in Golden Gate Park. Founding writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware realized quickly that book lovers craved something grander. Against the backdrop of a technology-crazed San Francisco...
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8:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: A Night of Blackout Poetry with Ploughshares
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Matthew Lippman is the author of four poetry collections—The New Year of Yellow (winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Sarabande Books), Monkey Bars, Salami Jew, and American Chew (winner of the Burnside Review of Books Poetry Prize). He is the Editor and Founder of the web based...
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January Gill O’Neil is the author of two poetry collections, Misery Islands and Underlife, published by CavanKerry Press. A third collection, Rewilding, will be published by CavanKerry Press in fall 2018. She is the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, an assistant...
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Tim Suermondt is the author of three full-length collections of poems—Trying To Help The Elephant Man Dance (The Backwaters Press, 2007), Just Beautiful (New York Quarterly Books, 2010) and Election Night And The Five Satins (Glass Lyre Press, 2016)—along with three chapbooks...
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Established in 2014, The Boston Literary District is the first cultural district in the United States dedicated to letters. Our mission is to work with local writers, educational and literary organizations to raise the profile of Boston as a literary city and to increase participation...
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Originally hatched in a San Francisco pub in 1999, Litstock debuted as a free one-day reading series in Golden Gate Park. Founding writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware realized quickly that book lovers craved something grander. Against the backdrop of a technology-crazed San Francisco...
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Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Best known for our award-winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos—digital-first long stories and essays—and a lively literary blog. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in...
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8:30pm EDT
Lit Crawl: Regie Gibson Live!
Presenters 
Regie Gibson is an author, lecturer, and literarymusician who has lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba, and Europe. As a representative of the U.S., Gibson competed for and received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy. He and his work appear in love jones, a...
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Established in 2014, The Boston Literary District is the first cultural district in the United States dedicated to letters. Our mission is to work with local writers, educational and literary organizations to raise the profile of Boston as a literary city and to increase participation...
Read More →
Originally hatched in a San Francisco pub in 1999, Litstock debuted as a free one-day reading series in Golden Gate Park. Founding writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware realized quickly that book lovers craved something grander. Against the backdrop of a technology-crazed San Francisco...
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