Name: Poetry Headliners
Start: 2024-10-26T14:00:00-0400
End: 2024-10-26T15:00:00-0400

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Saturday October 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

16 - Goethe-Institut - 1st Floor

Award-winning poet Cynthia Manick and renowned author and three-time United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read from their books No Sweet Without Brine, and Proverbs of Limbo: Poems. Manick’s No Sweet Without Brine, voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism. In Proverbs of Limbo, Pinsky’s first new book of poetry in eight years, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders. Come listen to these engaging poets read their work and discuss their upcoming poems in this unmissable headline reading. Sponsored by Mass Poetry.

Presenters

Cynthia Manick

Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay, was named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine, and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023. She is the author... Read More →

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is the author of several books of poetry, including Gulf Music, Jersey Rain, The Want Bone, The Figured Wheel, and At the Foundling Hospital. His bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante sets a modern standard. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997... Read More →

Sponsors and Partners

Mass Poetry

Saturday October 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
16 - Goethe-Institut - 1st Floor

Poetry

Boston Book Festival

Cynthia Manick

Robert Pinsky

Mass Poetry

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