10/29: Boston Book Festival
***THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***
The Boston Book Festival returns to Copley Square with a kick-off on Friday, October 28 and continuing all day on Saturday, October 29. Join 200 fiction, nonfiction, YA, and kids authors for a day of readings and discussions, book signings, workshops, and other lively literary events. The BBF will also feature kids activities, walking tours, the Copley Square Street Fair, live music, food trucks, and more. And it’s all FREE. Celebrate the power of words, together once again.
Mass Poetry is excited to be partnering with this year’s Boston Book Festival 2022, and will be hosting a variety of interactive poetry workshops, readings, and more at the Festival! Come drop by to hone your poetic craft, grab some food, and enjoy the ambiance of Boston’s best writers at this highly-anticipated book festival!
Mass Poetry’s Schedule of Events – Saturday, October 29th
For updates and last-minute event changes, visit Boston Book Festival’s Full Schedule of Events.
11:00-11:45
(Workshop) Crafting the Verse Novel: Rebecca Caprara, Rajani LaRocca, and Kip Wilson
Goethe Institut Workshop Space
11:00-12:00
Poetry Reading: 2021 Mass Book Award Winners with Peter Gizzi, Gail Mazur, and Enzo Silon Surin
Goethe Institut Foyer
12:15-1:00
Headline Reading: Michael Ansara & Andrea Cohen
Goethe Institut Foyer
12:15-1:00
(Workshop) Your Pictures As Poetry and Prose: Writing From Your Photo Stream: Kelly DuMar
Goethe Institute Workshop Space
1:30-2:15
Tree Lines: A Celebration of Ecopoetics: Charles Coe, Martha Collins, Erica Funkhouser, and Deborah Leipziger
Goethe Institut Foyer
1:30-2:15
(Workshop) The Silence After a Bell: Crafting Poems Beyond Language: Allison Adair and Sandra Lim
Goethe Institute Workshop Space
2:45-3:30
Headline Reading: Quintin Collins & torrin a. greathouse
Goethe Institut Foyer
2:45-3:30
(Workshop) Documentary Poetry: Enriching Historical and Cultural Inquiries With Lyrical Investigation: DeMisty D. Bellinger, Margot Douaihy, and Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Goethe Institute Workshop Space
3:45-4:45
The Future Is Now: Motherhood and the Body in a Post-Roe World with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Jennifer Militello, and Anna V. Q. Ross
BPL Newsroom Cafe
4:00-4:45
(Workshop) Sex, Mess, and Erotic Potential: Queer Literary Methods: Sofia Fey and Rita Mookerjee
Goethe Institute Workshop Space
6:00 Doors; 6:30-7:30
Poems & Pints: Margot Douaihy, Ross Gay, Mikko Harvey, Porsha Olayiwola
Room & Board