Bosch & Pomerantz at Suffolk

Daniel Bosch and Marsha Pomerantz will be reading at the Suffolk University Poetry Center, on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7 p.m.

Marsha Pomerantz’s collection The Illustrated Edge is out this year from Biblioasis. Her poems
and prose have appeared in journals in the US, UK, and Israel, and she has translated poetry, short fiction, and a novel from . She has enjoyed support from the MacDowell Colony and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, but is happy to have a day job at the Harvard Art Museums.

Daniel Bosch's book Crucible was published by Other Press in 2002. His poems, translations, and
reviews have appeared in Salamander, Poetry, The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Agni, Kill Author, Berfrois, Beloit Poetry Journal, ArtsFuse, and many other publications. He was the Director of Writing & Publishing at Walnut Hill School for the Arts for seven years, and he now teaches expository writing at Tufts University.

Co-sponsored by Salamander magazine and the Suffolk University Poetry Center. Sawyer Library, Third Floor, 73 Tremont Street, Boston MA.

A ROBERT FROST PLAY IN LOWEL

. "This Verse Business" is a one-man play starring Gordon Clapp – best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue and his Tony-nominated role as Dave Moss in the 2005 Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross -- as Robert Frost, the great American poet who “barded” around the country for forty-five years with his dry wit and “promises to keep.” Show runs from 10/20 to 11/13; online at http://www.merrimackrep.org/season./show.aspx?sid=101. The Merrimack Repertory Theatre is in downtown Lowell, just a short ride away on the Commuter Rail.

READING FOR WILD APPLES 8

A reading has been organized to celebrate the launch of the new (and final) issue of Wild Apples journal, organized around the theme of "Root, Trunk, Bough." TONIGHT, Thursday, October 20 at 7:30pm, at the Old Library, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA. With readings from Wild Apples writers -- Linda Fialkoff, Linda Hoffman, Kathryn Liebowitz, Greg Lowenberg, Susan Edwards Richmond, Sophie Wadsworth, and Stanley Euston -- and an exhibit of Wild Apples artists curated by Pam Cochrane and Alicia Dwyer, as well as live music by the Rootstocks.

OCTOBER BREAKWATER READING

The Breakwater Reading Series presents writers from the MFA programs of UMass-Boston, Emerson, and Boston University. This month's session features Drew Arnold and Danielle Jones-Pruett of UMass; Mike Brokos and Abriana Jette of BU; and Lauren Picard and Wesley Rothman of Emerson. Friday, October 21, 7pm, at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline (C-line to Coolidge Corner). Free and open to the public.

HENRI COLE AT HARVARD

Henri Cole, the author of 8 collections of poetry including Touch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011), teaches at Ohio State University and Harvard. He is poetry editor of The New Republic, and lives in Boston. This free and public reading is sponsored by the Harvard Department of English. Monday, October 24, 6pm, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

Parks & Halliday reading at BU

evening of Fiction and Poetry: Tim Parks and Mark Halliday
Thursday, October 13th at 7pm at the BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road

Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, plus a dozen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and, most recently, Machiavelli. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University, Milan, he writes regularly for the LRB and the NYRB. His non-fiction works include, Translating Style, a literary approach to translation problems; Medici Money, an account of the relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century; and, most recently, Teach Us to Sit Still.

Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His books of poems are Little Star (William Morrow,1987), Tasker Street (University of Massachusetts, 1992), Selfwolf (University of Chicago, 1999), Jab (University of Chicago, 2002), and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal appeared in 1991 from Princeton University Press. He co-authored with Allen Grossman a book on poetics, The Sighted Singer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

Free and open to the public. A reception will follow. There will also be books for sale. Supported by the BU Center for the Humanities, and the College of General Studies. This event serves as a prelude to this weekend's ASLCW conference at BU.

For more information, please contact Meg Tyler at 617-358-4199.

A ROBERT FROST PLAY

"This Verse Business" is a one-man play starring Gordon Clapp – best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue and his Tony-nominated role as Dave Moss in the 2005 Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross -- as Robert Frost, the great American poet who “barded” around the country for forty-five years with his dry wit and “promises to keep.” Show runs from 10/20 to 11/13; online at http://www.merrimackrep.org/season./show.aspx?sid=101. The Merrimack Repertory Theatre is in downtown Lowell, just a short ride away on the Commuter Rail.