2012 Dog Days Poetry Marathoon

The Boston Poetry Collective has posted the full schedule for its 2012 Dog Day Poetry Marathoon.

This series of readings and 15-minute talks on literary topics, spread over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 17th-19th, will take place at Outpost 186 in Inman Square, Cambridge. An unofficial flyer suitable for printing and distribution can be downloaded from the Boston Poetry Union meetup site (or click on the image above). Friday: 7:00 - 10:00pm; Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00pm & 7:00 - 10:00pm; Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00pm

For more information about the event, visit http://bostonpoetry.blogspot.com/ or email bostonpoetry@gmail.com.

Words and art this month at Lorem Ipsum

 

TONIGHT at Lorem Ipsum Books in Cambridge, the opening reception of YOUNG GHOSTS, the gallery installation for the month of May from local graffiti artist, Black Math, featured in a Weekly Dig interview this week. [Event page]

FRIDAY, MAY 20: the Sig Amet reading series session featuring Janaka Stucky, Dot Devota, Matthew Henriksen (author of Ordinary Sun) and Brandon Shimoda (author of The Girl Without Arms, whom Tomaž Šalamun describes as "an Ur-being, a totally new creature [... whose] language changes natural laws."), as well as poems read from Destroyer of Man, a posthumous collection of poems by Boston-area punk rock renaissance man, Dominic Owen Mallary. Start time, 7:30 PM. [Event page]