Highly suggested: Think/Do/Experience one, some, or all of the following things in the next few days: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 (tonight) Alice Bouvrie's (Film & Video Fellow '11) film Thy Will Be Done (see a clip, above) screens at the Marran Theatre at Lesley University, 7 PM, free. This documentary tells the story of male-to-female transsexual Sara Herwig in her journey to … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – October 11
Contrary to popular belief, artists don't pack up their practices for the month of October so they can concentrate solely on churning out witch-crashed-into-a-tree decorations for Halloween. No, they keep doing great stuff like this. Here's what past MCC Artist Fellows and Finalists are up to this month: The Boston Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, October 15, … [Read more...]
Jessica Bozek at the Boston Book Fest
The Boston Book Festival is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, workshops, and other bookish happenings on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at Copley Square in Boston. A number of past MCC fellows/finalists are among the presenters, including Jessica Bozek (Poetry Finalist '10), who joins poets Stephen Burt and Sandra Beasley for the reading/discussion Poetry: Personae, … [Read more...]
Autumn Leaves of Literature
The leaves turn in a bookish Massachusetts autumn. On Saturday, October 15, 2011, Copley Square in Boston turns from ordinary Square-ness into a temporary monument to the thing we call "book." The Boston Book Festival is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, workshops, and other bookish happenings. Among the presentations for adults and kids are these with past … [Read more...]
Cities of books
All artists - all humans - can stand to benefit from engaging other artists in their community. Poets and poetry lovers had an opportunity to do just that at this past weekend's Massachusetts Poetry Festival. And in the next week, New England writers have two opportunities to revel in the current work of prominent working writers. Boston Book Festival "Unintelligible scream … [Read more...]