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Blacksmith House Poetry Series

October 7

 |  $5

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Date:
October 7
Cost:
$5
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Website:
https://ccae.org/blacksmithpoetry

Venue

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
42 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
About

Blacksmith House Poetry Series Begins on October 7th!

Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. The series is named after the Blacksmith House at 56 Brattle Street, site of the village smithy and spreading chestnut tree of Longfellow’s 1839 poem “The Village Blacksmith.”

All readings take place in person at 56 Brattle Street on Mondays at 8:00 pm.

Admission is $5 and tickets are available at the door.

FALL 2024 SCHEDULE

 

October 7
Robert Pinsky reads from his new collection, Proverbs of Limbo.October 21
Catherine Barnett reads from her new book, Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, with Danielle Chapman, whose latest collection is Boxed Juice.

October 28
Teresa Cader reads from At Risk, with Cammy Thomas, whose most recent collection is Odysseus’ Daughter.

November 11
Spencer Reece reads from his new book, Acts, with Pablo Medina, whose latest collection is Sea of Broken Mirrors.

December 2
Carl Phillips reads from his new collection, Scattered Snows, to the North, with Penelope Pelizzon, author of A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye.

December 9
David Semanki reads from his debut collection of poems, Ghost Camera, with Jason Schneiderman, whose latest collection is Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire.

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