Lit Crawl Boston 2019: Full Schedule

6:00pm EDT

826 Boston's Lovelorn Literary Trivia

Is an ex-partner, unrequited love, or disastrous relationship getting you down? You’re not alone when you have books! Join us and the many lovesick characters of fiction as we test our bookish cred in a game of Literary Trivia, hosted by Margaret Willison and Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein. We can’t wait to raise a glass with you to jilted love!

Presenters

Meredith Goldstein

Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for the Boston Globe. Her advice column, "Love Letters," is a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn that has been running online and in the paper since 2009. The first season of the Love Letters podcast launched... Read More →

Margaret Willison

Margaret Willison is a Boston native who was born and raised in Jamaica Plain. She now works as a librarian, podcaster, and culture writer. She runs a pop culture newsletter called Two Bossy Dames with another librarian, is 1/3 of the Appointment Television podcast, and appears regularly... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Capital One Café 799 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Interactive, Phase 1

6:00pm EDT

A Little Box of Yes

Join writers Ethan Gilsdorf, Molly Booth, Tim Weed, and fellow writer turned host Brian David Mooney for improvisational storytelling based on Synapsis, a new storytelling prompt and game from Storymatic Studios. Here’s how it works: The storytellers will draw cards from the Synapsis box. The cards prompt them to write one sentence, which they will imagine comes from a certain kind of story. As each writer improvises answers about the story from the sentence, they begin to discover the story, setting, and characters. Audience participation welcome!

Presenters

Brian David Mooney

Brian David Mooney is a recipient of a 2019 creation grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA to support his novel, The Secret Report of Frank Dodge. He has published essays, fiction, and poetry in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary, Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse... Read More →

Ethan Gilsdorf

Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, memoirist, essayist, critic, poet, teacher, performer, and nerd. He is the author of the travel memoir investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, and his work has been included in Best American Essays 2016. His essays, articles, reviews, commentaries... Read More →

Molly Booth

Molly Booth writes books about Shakespeare and feelings. She's the author of the Young Adult novels Saving Hamlet and Nothing Happened. She graduated from Marlboro College and went onto earn her English MA at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Molly is a freelance writer and... Read More →

Tim Weed

Tim Weed’s short fiction collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, made the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist and was a finalist in the short story category for the American Fiction Awards and the International Book Awards. His first novel, Will Poole’s... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Room & Board 375 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 1

6:00pm EDT

Music and Modern Irish Poetry

Boston-based drama group the Here Comes Everyone Players will present an evening of modern Irish poetry that reflects the energy and freshness of a changing society and how these changes are addressed by a new generation of younger poets, mostly women. The experience of motherhood, the question of the Irish language, the pull of the past, and the dilemmas of the present are treated with passion, lyricism, simplicity, and humor. The show will include Irish music.

Presenters

Sheila Gleeson

Sheila Gleeson grew up in County Kildare and is a graduate of University College Dublin and Boston College. Gleeson has had a major interest in Irish traditional music, culture, and language since she was a teen. She is the Chair of the Board at the Irish Pastoral Center in Boston... Read More →

Donal O'Sullivan

Donal O’Sullivan has performed many times in the Boston area as an actor, narrator and (once) as a circus ringmaster. A founder member of the Here Comes Everybody Players (HCE), he is pleased to be the session host for HCE presentation of Modern Irish Poetry for Lit Crawl Boston.The... Read More →

Gillian Mackay

Gillian Mackay-Smith is an actor in the Boston area. She has performed locally with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Bad Habit Productions, Fresh Ink Theatre Company and Apollinaire Theater Company, among others, and devised work with New Exhibition Room and Project: Project. She... Read More →

Zoe Clark

Zoe Clark was lucky enough to encounter the Here Comes Everybody Players through their affiliated Finnegan’s Wake reading group, the Thirsty Scholars, whose meetings consistently constitute the high point of her week. Although a software engineer by trade, Zoe like to consider... Read More →

Lidia Chang

Lidia Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores the intersection of print culture, gender, and music performance practices in England during the long eighteenth century. Chang holds a Master’s degree in Historical Performance from... Read More →

Sean Connor

Sean Connor has been playing Irish Music on the fiddle since the age of eight. Mainly taught by his father, a native of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo and his mother from Connemara, he plays with a ferocious energy and desire to keep the style and tradition of old alive and kicking. Connor plays... Read More →

Tony Keegan

Tony Keegan plays a range of traditional Irish percussion instruments including the bodhrán, bones, and spoons. He is a regular player around Boston and frequently performs with the Here Comes Everybody Players. He is a regular participant in the annual “Craiceann” bodhrán festival... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Newbury Comics 348 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Poetry, Phase 1

6:00pm EDT

No Fixed Address

Since 2015, No Fixed Address Press has been publishing in broadsheet form the work of writers from the homeless community of downtown Boston. At this one-of-a-kind reading, publisherJames Parker will present a program of writers from the NFAP roster. There will be poetry, protest, prayer, memoir, and reportage from the streets and shelters of the city. Broadsheets will be on sale.

Presenters

James Parker

Born in London in 1968, James Parker is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of Turned On, a biography of Henry Rollins. He lives in Brookline.

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Poetry, Phase 1

6:00pm EDT

Youth Spoken Word Poetry Slam

Some of the most exciting new talents in Boston and beyond will compete in a fast-paced, engaging poetic competition where "the points aren't the point, the point is the poetry." For the past several years, MassLEAP has brought young people together from all parts of the community to tell their stories and elevate their generation's collective voice through poetry slam festivals, youth leadership programs, and community events. Don’t miss your chance to see tomorrow’s poetry superstars—today!

Presenters

Mass LEAP

Mass LEAP (Literary Education and Performance): is dedicated to building and supporting spaces for youth to experience the transformative power of their own voices in community with one another. We exist as a platform for young people, artist-educators, and organizers to foster positive... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Childs Gallery 169 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Poetry, Phase 1

6:00pm EDT

Immigrants in Conversation

“Immigrants in Conversation” brings together voices from the Italian American writing community of New England in this Italian American Writers Association (IAWA)–sponsored event to read about the immigrant experience from their own work and the work of other writers they admire. Readings will explore the ways in which the immigrant experience lodges in the bones and minds of generations of Americans and will illustrate the relevance and relationships between and among immigrants over time.

Presenters

Jennifer Martelli

Jennifer Martelli is the author of MyTarantella, as well as the chapbook After Bird, winner of the open reading in 2016. Her work has appeared in Verse Daily, Italian Americana, The Bitter Oleander, and Iron Horse Review, winner of the Photo Finish contest. Jennifer Martelli is... Read More →

Marianne Leone

Marianne Leone is the author of Jesse, a Mother's Story. Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Solstice, Coastal Living, Post Road, Bark Magazine and Ann Hood’s book of essays, Knitting Pearls, among others. She had a recurring role on HBO's hit show, “The Sopranos... Read More →

Julia Lisella

Julia Lisella’s poetry books include Always , Terrain, and Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ovunque Siamo, Mom Egg Review, Gravel, Exit 7, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ocean State Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, VIA, and many others. Modernist Women Writers and... Read More →

Laurette Folk

Laurette Folk ‘s fiction, essays, and poems have been published in Upstreet, Waxwing, Gravel, Flash Fiction Magazine, Mom Egg Review, pacificREVIEW, Boston Globe Magazine, and forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2019. Her novel, A Portal to Vibrancy won the Independent Press Award... Read More →

Vincent Panella

Vincent Panella grew up in Queens and lives in Vermont. Three of his books are a family history subtitled Growing up Italian in America, a novel Cutter’s Island, based on a little known event in the life of Julius Caesar, and Lost Hearts, a collection of short stories critics call... Read More →

Olivia Kate Cerrone

Olivia Kate Cerrone is the author of The Hunger Saint, a historical novella about the child miners of Sicily, which won a 2018 American Fiction Award. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work has received the Jack Dyer Prize from the Crab Orchard Review, the Mason’s Road Literary Award... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
Johnny Cupcakes 279 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Reading, Phase 1

7:00pm EDT

One-Star Reviews

Think The Great Gatsby is the G.O.A.T.? Did Charlotte’s Web make you cry—in a good way? Do you adore Toni Morrison’s Love? Chances are someone else disagrees with you—passionately. Comedian Wes Hazard will read hilarious Goodreads one-star reviews of classic literature. Your job? To guess which celebrated canonical works are being panned. Contestants with the three highest scores will each win a pair of VIP badges to Boston Book Festival 2019!

Presenters

Wes Hazard

A New England native, Wes Hazard has been named as one of “5 Boston Comedians to Watch” by the Boston Globe. A writer, storyteller, and comedian, Hazard brings wit, energy, and honesty to the stage, qualities that have made him a regular performer in Boston venues as well as at... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Room & Board 375 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 2

7:00pm EDT

The Great American Poetry Challenge

Get ready to flex your poetry muscles in this competitive creative challenge! Attendees will be grouped into five teams, and each team will be appointed an established poet — Anna V.Q. Ross, Febo, Ben Berman, Enzo Silon Surin, or Colleen Michael — as their team cheerleader. Mass Poetry will provide a series of prompts (e.g., a certain number of lines, a certain meter, in the style of a certain poet). Each team will have up to 20 minutes to write their poem. For the last 15 minutes, one member from each team will read their poems aloud, and the winner will get a prize, including a gift card from Aeronaut Brewing!

Presenters

Anna V.Q. Ross

Anna V.Q. Ross is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Poetry and author of the poetry collection If a Storm and two chapbooks: Figuring and Hawk Weather. Her recent work appears in the Southern Review, Harvard Review, the Nation, and the Baffler. She teaches at Emerson College... Read More →

Febo

Febo is a poet, actor, youth worker, lover, and friend. He founded the adult slam poetry scene in the city that birthed and raised him, Lowell, MA. He also co-founded FreeVerse! an organization that works with Lowell's youth to better understand themselves through poetry. He has been... Read More →

Colleen Michaels

Colleen Michaels's poems have been published in journals and anthologies, printed on bar coasters, painted on the stairs to Crane Breach, and projected at the Peabody Essex Museum. She directs the Writing Studio at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, where she hosts the Improbable... Read More →

Ben Berman

Ben Burman is the author of two books of poetry, Strange Borderlands and Figuring in the Figure, and the newly released small book of short prose, Then Again. He has received awards from the Mass Center for the Book and New England Poetry Club and fellowships from the Massachusetts... Read More →

Enzo Silon Surin

Enzo Silon Surin, Haitian-born poet, educator, publisher, and social advocate, is the author of the chapbooks, A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto and Higher Ground. He is the recipient of a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation and is a PEN New England... Read More →

Sponsors

Aeronaut Brewing Co.

In December 2013, friends /housemates/cofounders: Dan, Ben and Ronn set out from a Somerville backyard on a journey that would become Aeronaut Brewing Co. On the first day of Summer 2014, we launched in the loading bay of a historic envelope factory, creating Somerville's first craft... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 2

7:00pm EDT

Nixes Mate: History, Literature, and Boston

Nixes Mate is named after the navigational hazard in Boston Harbor where, during the colonial period, pirates and mutineers were hung and gibbeted as a warning to recalcitrant sailors. Nixes Mate has published poetry and fiction that ties Boston and New England’s sense of place and history to itself and to the greater world. Through the spoken word, presenters will explore gender roles, racial identity, and man-made disasters that have shaped Boston for better or for worse.

Presenters

Jennifer Martelli

Cindy Veach

Cindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood, named a finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Journal, Sugar House Review, Salamander, and... Read More →

Lauren Leja

Lauren Leja is a writer, photographer, snapshot collector and rescuer of the forgotten. She has a website, invisiblecommute.com, in which she documents her wanderings with a daily photo. She lives in Boston.

Michael McInnis

Michael McInnis lives in Boston and served six years in the Navy chasing white whales and Soviet submarines. He was the founder of the Primal Plunge, Boston’s first and only bookstore dedicated to zine and underground culture and small press literature. When he is not writing, McInnis... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Johnny Cupcakes 279 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Poetry, Phase 2

7:00pm EDT

Writers Behind the Bar

This session, sponsored by GrubStreet, brings together great local writers who also know how to mix a mean Old Fashioned. Award winning story teller Jannelle Codianni will serve as MC and will mix up some great conversation between the authors. Temple Bar bartender Haley Hamilton writes a weekly column dedicated to booze, bar culture and other vices at Mel Magazine and is at work on her first memoir, All My Friends Have Pineapple Tattoos. Before Joe Fox could find Manhattan on a map, he knew it was a drink. A former MacDowell Fellow, he is at work on a memoir about his late father, a long-time barman at the fabled Algonquin Hotel. James Stotts is the bar manager of Bistro 5 in Medford as well as a celebrated poet whose most recent collection is Since. Writers who drink may be a tired cliche, but we know that writers behind the bar have some of the best stories to tell.

Presenters

Joe Fox

Before Joe Fox was old enough to find Manhattan on a map, he knew it was a drink. A former MacDowell Fellow, Joe Fox is writing about his late father, an Irish immigrant and lifelong barman to New York’s literati at the fabled Algonquin Hotel.

James Stotts

James Stotts is the bar manager of Bistro 5 in Medford. He’s also a celebrated poet and translator whose work has appeared in AGNI, the Critical Flame, and elsewhere. He's also published two poetry collections: Since and His Body A Feather.

Haley Hamilton

When not serving drinks at Temple Bar, Haley Hamilton writes a weekly column dedicated to booze, bar culture and other vices at Mel Magazine. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator program, she’s also at work on her first memoir, All My Friends Have Pineapple Tattoos.

Sponsors

GrubStreet

GrubStreet is one of the nation's leading creative writing centers. They believe that narrative transforms lives, builds bridges, and produces empathy. By rigorously developing voices of every type and talent and by removing barriers to entry, GrubStreet fosters the creation of meaningful... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Acote Salon 132 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Reading, Phase 2

7:00pm EDT

Writers Talk About Writing

...AFTERWORDS are uncommon books that blend personal essay and literary criticism. Four Afterwords authors — Stephanie Reents (writing on Blood Meridian), Stacie Williams (writing on The Fortress of Solitude), Adam Colman (writing on 10:04), and Alden Jones (writing on Wild) — discuss their creative approaches to blending literary criticism with memoir, read briefly from their work, and end with a trivia contest based on the authors they wrote about.

Presenters

Stephanie Reents

Stephanie Reents, born in 1970, grew up in Boise, Idaho. She is the author of the The Kissing List, which was an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, an account of her attempt to come to terms with the strange void at the heart of Cormac... Read More →

Adam Colman

Adam Colman has written for the Believer, KCRW, McSweeney's Organist podcast, and more. His book on the origins of the addiction aesthetic has also recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Alden Jones

Alden Jones’s most recent book is The Wanting Was a Wilderness, coming soon from Fiction Advocate. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won of the New American Fiction Prize, the Lascaux Book Prize, and an Independent Publishers Book Award in Short Fiction. Her memoir, The... Read More →

Stacie Williams

Stacie Williams is the director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Midnight Breakfast, Belt, LitHub, VICE, New York Magazine, Catapult, Gordon Square Review, and The Rumpus. Bizarro Worlds (November 2018) is part of Fiction... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Newbury Comics 348 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Reading, Phase 2

8:00pm EDT

"Honey, I'm Holmes"

Honey, I’m Holmes: An Improvised Sherlock Holmes Mystery will feature some of the area’s best improvisers creating and solving a crime in the zaniest ways possible, based on audience suggestions!

Presenters

Honey, I'm Holmes

Honey, I’m Holmes: An Improvised Sherlock Holmes mystery features some of the area’s best improvisers creating and solving a crime in the zaniest ways possible, based on audience suggestions! Brought to you by the creative minds of John Herman, Michelle Boncek, and some of the... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
Room & Board 375 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 3

8:00pm EDT

Boston in 100 Words

Jane De León Griffin, Director of Boston in 100 Words, will be hosting an evening exploring micro-fiction, or in other words, very, very short stories. This is an opportunity to learn more about what makes a very short piece of writing a “story” and how short narrative fiction can really be. Has micro-fiction always been a popular literary genre, or has it taken on new meaning in the age of text messaging and tweets? This event will explore these questions and more. Audience members will also get the chance to try their hand at writing their own short-short stories and creatively play with the format.

Presenters

Jane De León Griffin

Jane De León Griffin is Director of Boston in 100 Words and Associate Professor of Spanish at Bentley University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is the author of the 2016 book, The Labor of Literature. De León has dedicated much of her academic research to the study... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
J.P. Licks 1106 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 3

8:00pm EDT

Four Stories

Four Stories is a literary series bridging Greater Boston’s nightlife and arts community. In this special installment hosted by Sari Boren, we will be featuring Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a PEN American Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist; David Blair, the author of three books of poetry and a recent collection of essays, Walk Around; Brad Felver, whose debut collection of stories, The Dogs of Detroit, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; and Melanie Pryor, a nonfiction writer who focuses on women, the wilderness, and the coastal and bush landscapes of Australia where she has spent most of her life. So come experience Four Stories. It’s like a nineteenth-century salon complete with socializing and witty banter. Corsets optional.

Presenters

Brad Felver

Brad Felver is a novelist, essayist, and teacher of writing. His debut collection of stories, The Dogs of Detroit, won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.His fiction and essays have appeared widely in magazines such as One Story, New England Review, Colorado Review, Hunger Mountain... Read More →

Sari Boren

Sari Boren is an essayist and playwright who has published in Copper Nickel, Lilith Magazine, The Southeast Review, Alimentum, Hobart, and Pangyrus, among others. In 2019 her solo play, Exhibiting, premiered at the Newton Theatre Company and her short play, To Rest, premiered... Read More →

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, poet, and PEN American Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, The Millions, Joyland, Large Hearted Boy, Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly... Read More →

David Blair

David Blair is the author of three books of poetry, Ascension Days, Friends with Dogs, Arsonville, and a forthcoming poetry collection, Barbarian Seasons. Walk Around is his first collection of essays. It features essays that originally appeared in storySouth, The Critical Flame... Read More →

Melanie Pryor

Melanie Pryor writes nonfiction about women, the wilderness, and the coastal and bush landscapes of Australia where she has spent most of her life. Her personal essays are published in the leading Australian literary magazines Meanjin, Southerly, and Overland. Her latest work Salt... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 3

8:00pm EDT

Silent Book Club

Always wishing you had more time to read? Trying to meet more bookish folks? Then Silent Book Club is perfect for you! Treat yourself to a session of self-care by making time for yourself, enjoying a lovely beerage, and meeting new people. We’ll start off with some mingling to break the ice, have some leisurely reading time, and wrap up together by sharing book recommendations. The book is not assigned; just bring the one you are currently reading and dive in! The first ten attendees can receive a mini-manicure, compliments of MiniLuxe!

Presenters

Manasa Davuluri

Manasa Davuluri moved from California to Boston a year ago and has been trying to stay warm ever since. Here to pursue a master’s in teaching, she’s been sucked into East Coast living and looks forward to exploring her new home even further. In addition to founding the Boston... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
MiniLuxe Back Bay at 296 Newbury Street 296 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Interactive, Phase 3

8:00pm EDT

Poetry is Busy

Poetry Is Busy is a multidisciplinary experience, a rich mixture of arts that intertwine; expanding the way we perceive literature and readings.

Presenters

Porsha Olayiwola

A Jamaica Plain resident, Porsha Olayiwola is the Artistic Director at MassLEAP, a literary nonprofit organization in Massachusetts serving youth artists. She also co-founded The House Slam, a poetry slam venue at the Haley House Bakery Café in Roxbury that offers a free poetry slam... Read More →

Yara Liceaga-Rojas

Yara Liceaga-Rojas is a queer Afro Caribbean Puerto Rican poet, performer, curator and coordinator of cultural events, and an educator. She is the curator of Poetry Is Busy and the recipient of the recent Live Arts Boston grant. She is also a 2018 New England Foundation for the Arts... Read More →

Lilly Evelet

Lilly Evelet is a mixed Indigenous womxn and an interdisciplinary artist whose works center of emotionally-excavating topics around humanness.

Pampi

Pampi is founder of In Divine Company, an activist multimedia contemporary temple dance theater collective. A 20+ year newcomer-settler-resident of Massachusetts and Wompanoag land, Pampi is a darker-skinned nonbinary second-genx casteD-Bengali culture worker who flourishes in the... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
Newbury Comics 348 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Poetry, Phase 3

8:00pm EDT

Food Will Keep Us Together

When we break bread, strangers become friends. In this session, we’ll share stories of how food affects relationships in communities, across generations and borders. Students of Boston University’s Gastronomy program will share original works. Authors Crystal King (The Secret Chef),Dariel Suarez (A Kind of Solitude), and Grace Talusan (The Body Papers), will share excerpts from their recently published books. Hosted by Deborah Norkin, Food Writing Editor at Pangyrus Literary Magazine. Come early to score a free pretzel from Fat Boyfriend Bakery!

Presenters

Artress Bethany White

Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the 2018 Trio Award for her poetry collection, My Afmerica. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review,Tupelo Quarterly, the Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Solstice, Poet... Read More →

Michelle-Marie Gilkeson

Michelle-Marie Gilkeson is a recent graduate of Boston University's Culinary Arts program and a master's candidate in the university's Gastronomy program. She holds a master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Roosevelt University. Her writing and recipes have appeared in... Read More →

Crystal King

Crystal King is a novelist, culinary enthusiast, and marketing expert. She is the author of The Chef’s Secret, about famous Renaissance chef, Bartolomeo Scappi. Her first novel, Feast of Sorrow, about the ancient gourmand Apicius, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First... Read More →

Deborah Norkin

Deborah Norkin is the Food Writing editor of Pangyrus Literary Magazine. Her features, essays, and fiction have appeared in newspapers and magazines. She lives in the Boston area where she produces and hosts author and literary events.

Dariel Suarez

Dariel Suarez is the Cuban-born author of the novel The Playwright's House (forthcoming, Red Hen Press) and the story collection A Kind of Solitude, winner of the 2017 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. He is a City of Boston inaugural Artist Fellow and the Director of Core Programs... Read More →

Grace Talusan

Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, she is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council... Read More →

Sponsors

Fat Boyfriend Bakery

Fat Boyfriend Bakery was founded on December 12, 2012 by Caldwell Brands. Their mission is simple: to produce and distribute the highest quality craft food and beverage products. Fat Boyfriend Bakery believes the snacks you're enjoying with your beverage of choice should emphasize... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2019 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
Johnny Cupcakes 279 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

Reading, Phase 3

9:00pm EDT

Awkward Afterparty: PoemJazz with Robert Pinsky and Friends

Wrap up your Lit Crawl evening and meet up with fellow crawlers at Boston’s smartest new performance space—WBUR CitySpace—for a PoemJazz performance. Using his voice as a musical instrument, Robert Pinsky, along with musicians Stan Strickland on reeds and vocals, Hankus Netsky on piano, and John Lockwood on bass, will improvise a conversation between the melodies of spoken sentences and the melodies of music. Will there be awkward mingling and hesitant dancing? Almost certainly. Will you want to be there? Most definitely. Sponsored by 90.9 WBUR. Cash bar.

Presenters

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. He has served three terms as United States Poet Laureate. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world. Known worldwide, Pinsky’s work has earned... Read More →

Sponsors

WBUR

Thursday June 6, 2019 9:00pm - 9:45pm EDT
WBUR CitySpace 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

Music Poetry