Events

Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Ellen Steinbaum at the Hotel Marlowe.

Ellen
Steinbaum is a poet and journalist.  She is the author of two poetry
collections, Afterwords and Container Gardening.  From 2002 until February
2009 she wrote a literary column for The Boston Globe.  She now writes a
blog, Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe, which can be found at her
web site, ellensteinbaum.com.  She is also the author of a one-person play
CenterPiece, which she has performed.

Please note: this is an off-site event
to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe

About PEN New England

PEN New
England is an organization of writers and all those who love the
written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in
New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England
is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of
International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world,
and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is
honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books
to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year.
The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members
and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and
essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit
the PEN
New England website.

Join Porter Square Books for an evening of poetry with E.B. Moore and Christine Tierney.

E.B. Moore's work has appeared in Lost Magazine, The Charles
River Review, andThe Brattler, as well as in Summer Home Review
I & II, anthologies of work selected from the William Joiner
Center. She is a recipient of a full fellowship from The Vermont Studio
Center, and a literary prize fromThe Beacon Hill Times, as well as
The Mary C. Bartlett Prize for her poetry. Moore lives and writes in
Cambridge.

Christine Tierney's work has appeared in poemmemoirstory and one of
her poems was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. She was a John Woods
Scholar from Western Michigan University and received an MFA in
creative writing from The University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast
Writing Program. She is an Afterschool Director at a nonprofit program
in Cambridge.

"[Greenberg] creates poignant subtexts involving fundamental human
values and emotions like love, desire, honesty and malice…skillfully
explores issues that range from the profoundly tragic to the
delightfully funny."

Kirkus Reviews

"[A] terrific new collection…. It is as though Bellow or Alfred Kazin
were transported to post-millennial New York, bringing their toughness
and romanticism to bear on our softer and more familiar world…. This
book, with its intrepidity, humor, and dark insight, offers its own,
irrefutable justification for the 'writer's life."

Adam Kirsch, Tablet

A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg
is the author of the memoir Hurry Down Sunshine, published in sixteen
countries and chosen as one of the best books of 2008 by Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, and Library Journal. He is a
columnist for the Times Literary Supplement. His writing has
appeared in such varied places as O, The Oprah Magazine and The
New York Review of Books.