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SUMMARY:BOSTON ORIGINALS: Midwinter Reading & Community Gathering
DESCRIPTION:The Woodberry Poetry Room invites you to its inaugural Spring 
 2024 event: a Midwinter marathon-reading and party\, featuring Carolina 
 Ebeid\, Shangyang Fang\, Elisa Gabbert\, Christianne Goodwin\, Steven Karl 
 and Patrick Pritchett. Our popular Boston Originals series is a joyful 
 opportunity to commune with fellow poets and learn more about the diverse 
 array of writers who are working\, living\, and creating in New England at 
 this time.\n\nEach of our honored guests will read for 8-10 minutes\, then 
 we will kick back\, hang out\, eat food\, listen to music\, buy books\, and 
 fortify ourselves for the year ahead. We also invite audience members to 
 bring their own new books and/or fliers for events\, workshops\, or 
 protests that they will be hosting or participating in this 
 Spring.\n\n\nIn-Person Event: Woodberry Poetry Room\, Lamont Library\, Room 
 330. Free and open to the public.\n\n \n\nCarolina Ebeid is a multimedia 
 poet and author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior  and the 
 chapbook Dauerwunder. She helps edit poetry at The Rumpus and Visible 
 Binary. From 2023-2025 she is the Bonderman Assistant Professor of poetry 
 at Brown University. \n\nShangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu\, China. A 
 former Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University\, he is the author of 
 the poetry collection\, Burying the Mountain. He is as an Assistant 
 Professor at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston. \n\nElisa Gabbert is 
 the author of several collections of poetry\, essays\, and criticism\, 
 including Normal Distance\, The Unreality of Memory\, and The Word 
 Pretty. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times. Her next 
 book\, Any Person Is the Only Self\, will be out from FSG in June.  
 \n\nChristianne Goodwin is a musician\, editor and writer\, who currently 
 lives in Providence. Oracle Smoke Machine\, an art-and-poetry collaboration 
 with the Boston-based artist Stephen Proski\, is out with Staircase Books. 
 The book launch will take place on March 2nd at the Katherine Small Gallery 
 in Cambridge. \n\nSteven Karl is the author of Dork Swagger (Coconut 
 Books\, 2013)\, Sister (Noemi Press\, 2016)\, and I HRT the Cult Years: 
 Empty Empire of Aftersong (VA Press\, 2024)\, as well as several 
 chapbooks\, including If Your Lungs Are Skyed Make the Scar Song Echo Until 
 All The Winged Things Bleed Your Poetry (Bloof Books\, 2023). Originally 
 from Philadelphia\, he lives in Boston and teaches at FIU. \n\nPatrick 
 Pritchett is the author of Sunderland\, Orphic Noise and Song 
 X. He has taught at Harvard and Amherst College and currently lectures in 
 Comp Lit at Rutgers.  \n\n \n\nPersons with disabilities who would like 
 to request accommodations or have questions about physical access may 
 contact Houghton Library's Administrative Coordinator Le Huong Huynh by 
 email or at 617-495-2443 in advance of the event.\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Woodberry Poetry Room (Lamont Library\, Room 330)\, Woodberry Poetry Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Christina Davis":MAILTO:davis2@fas.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Reading/Lecture
CONTACT;CN="Christina Davis":MAILTO:davis2@fas.harvard.edu
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