Upcoming Author Events & Readings
9 upcoming author events and readings from Cambridge Center for Adult Education, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Mon Oct 19 · 8:00pm
Natalie Shapero reads from Stay Dead with Kathy Fagan, author of The Unbecoming. Shapero teaches at Tufts and her poems work a deadpan, self-interrupting register; Fagan has published collections over four decades and won the National Poetry Series. The Blacksmith House series has run Monday readings in Cambridge since the 1970s.
Mon Oct 26 · 8:00pm
Robert Clinton reads from Wasteland Honey alongside Roland Pease, whose most recent collection is The Song(s) of Roland. Pease also spent years as an editor and publisher of poetry in the Boston area. The Blacksmith House series pairs two poets each Monday evening at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
Mon Nov 2 · 8:00pm
Pádraig Ó Tuama reads from The Weight of Time with Susan Stewart, whose most recent book is Bramble. Ó Tuama is an Irish poet and theologian who presents the podcast Poetry Unbound; Stewart is a MacArthur fellow and former Princeton professor who writes criticism as well as poems.
Mon Nov 16 · 8:00pm
Jennifer Barber reads from her new collection A Prevalence of Angels with David Orr, author of The Marvels. Barber founded and long edited the literary journal Salamander at Suffolk University. The Blacksmith House series runs weekly through the autumn in the Cambridge Center for Adult Education's Brattle Street house.
Mon Nov 23 · 8:00pm
John Skoyles reads from That's Where You Come In with Clay Ventre, author of Excellent Wildlife Photos. Skoyles taught for many years at Emerson College and served as poetry editor of Ploughshares. The Blacksmith House pairs an established poet with a newer one most weeks of the series.
Mon Nov 30 · 8:00pm
Robert Pinsky, whose latest books are The First Two Books of Poems and On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy, has the evening to himself; the season's other Mondays each pair two writers. Pinsky served three terms as Poet Laureate of the United States, founded the Favorite Poem Project, translated Dante's Inferno and has long taught at Boston University. Admission is $5 at the door.
Thu Dec 3 · 3:00pm
A lecture on Cambridge property given away rather than sold — a line of benefactors from the Gilded Age to the present who handed over land and buildings to disenfranchised neighbours instead of making grants. It treats the transfer of real estate as a distinct and more consequential kind of philanthropy.
Mon Dec 7 · 8:00pm
J. Allyn Rosser reads from Chronic Transience with Kate Stearns, author of Out Toward Morning. Rosser has won the Morse Poetry Prize and the New Criterion Poetry Prize and edits New Ohio Review. The reading closes the Blacksmith House series' autumn run at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
Tue Dec 15 · 3:00pm
An illustrated talk on twelve sites around Boston that carry real political, literary or social history and are nowhere near the Freedom Trail — buildings, parks and monuments spread across several periods. The Cambridge Center for Adult Education runs it at its Brattle Street house.