Poetry

In this new collection of essays, Henry draws on his 40-year career as an award-winning novelist, memoirist, editor, and teacher, as well as on the works of classical and contemporary literature that have served him as “equipment for living.” He develops a lexicon of 22 abstract terms, including Weather, Time, Handshakes,

Testify, Simone John's first full-length book of poems, experiments with documentary poetics to uplift stories of black people impacted by state-sanctioned violence.

This anthology includes 73 poems by 73 poets, written over the 73 days between President Donald Trump's election and inauguration. It remains as relevant in today as it was during the transition. That's no cause for celebration, of course--a clear majority of Americans never wanted this transition to happen in the first place. Most of us wanted a different result. But we got what we got. As an entire nation, in different ways, to different extents, we did this to ourselves. And so here we are.

This month's reading is hosted by Redivider, and features Emily O'Neill and Keegan Lester.

For more details on the event please contact bostonpulsepoetry@gmail.com.

Shadow-feast is a chronicle of dying--the awareness, denial, pain, and hope surrounding incurable illness, as well as the aftermath of grief as told from three points of view: Hers, His, and Theirs (the couple). The collection as a whole is a kagezen, or shadow-feast, a traditional Japanese meal offered to the dead.

Spare Change News is the nation's oldest street newspaper. Since 1992, the paper has been covering issues other media often ignore inequality, homelessness, culture and resistance. Spare Change News Poems: An Anthology by Homeless People and those Touched by Homelessness, spans over 15 years of poetry the paper has published.

A PSB Be the Change event 

THE JULY MEETING OF POETS & PINTS STARTS AT 8PM. THE READING WILL HAPPEN FIRST FOLLOWED BY THE SOCIAL HOUR.

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry.

Stephen is sometimes Stephanie and sometimes wonders how his past and her past are their own collective memory.