BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260226T230000Z DTEND:20260227T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260226T000000Z SUMMARY:BOSTON ORIGINALS: Midwinter Reading & Party DESCRIPTION:The Woodberry Poetry Room  invites you to a warm\, welcoming midwinter party and vibrant\, inspiring reading\, featuring poets Sherah Bloor\, Nate Klug\, Esther K. Heller\, KÁNYIN Olorunnisola\, Anna V. Q. Ross\, and Talin Tahajian. Our popular  Boston Originals  series celebrates the breathtaking range of aesthetics and poetics being practiced by writers who are creating in or around Boston at this time.  \n \n\nEach of our honored guests will read for approximately 8 minutes\, then we will all kick back\, chat\, eat delicious food (catered by Formaggio)\, listen to music\, buy (and share) books\, and fortify ourselves for the year ahead. We also invite audience members to bring their own new books\, as well as any fliers related to upcoming events\, workshops\, and/or political demonstrations that they will be hosting or engaged in this Spring.  \n\n \nIn-Person Attendance: Woodberry Poetry Room\, Lamont Library\, 6:00pm. Free and open to the public. \n \n\nOnline Attendance: Livestreaming available via the Woodberry Poetry Room YouTube Channel. \n\n \n \n\nSHERAH BLOOR’s first collection of poems\, The Gathering\, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in September 2026. She is the co-editor and co-translator of You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine (Copper Canyon & Penguin) and the editor-in-chief of Peripheries: a journal of word\, image\, and sound (Harvard University Press). \n\nESTHER K. HELLER is a poet\, artist\, PhD student (Comp Lit)\, and literary critic. She is the author of Ar:range:ments (Fonograf Editions\, 2025). Her writing has appeared\, among other places\, in The Georgia Review\, BOMB\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, and The Guardian. \n\nNATE KLUG is a poet\, translator\, and essayist. The author of  Rude Woods\, a modern translation of Virgil’s Eclogues (Song Cave\, 2013)\, Anyone (Phoenix Poets\, 2015)\, and Hosts and Guests (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets\, 2020)\, he works as a minister at the First Parish in Lincoln\, Massachusetts. \n\nKÁNYIN OLORUNNISOLA is a Nigerian poet\, journalist\, and filmmaker. He is the author of Ara’luebo: The Immigrant Monologues (Acre Books\, 2026) and the superblack exhibit  (Jackleg Press\, 2027). His work has appeared in Al Jazeera\, FIYAH\, Georgia Review\, Chicago Review of Books\, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from U. of Alabama.\n\nANNA V.Q. ROSS’s most recent book\, Flutter\, Kick\, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award\, the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry\, and was named a 2022 Best New Poetry Book selection by the New York Public Library. Recent work appears in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, Harvard Review\, Plume and on The Slowdown. She teaches creative writing at Tufts University.\n\nTALIN TAHAJIAN is from Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review\, The Adroit Journal\, Best New Poets\, The Rumpus\, Poetry Magazine\, TriQuarterly\, Pleiades\, West Branch\, The Georgia Review\, Iowa Review\, Oxford Poetry\, AGNI\, and elsewhere. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale and the assistant poetry editor of The Yale Review. \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 workshop.\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 STATUS:CONFIRMED UID:LibCal-16361862 URL:https://libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/16361862 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR