Upcoming Author Events & Readings
11 upcoming author events and readings from Grolier Poetry Book Shop, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 8 · 7:00pm
Hugo Dos Santos and Anthony Walton read, introduced by Meia Geddes. Walton, who teaches at Bowdoin College, is the author of Mississippi: An American Journey and the poetry collection Cricket Weather, and co-edited The Vintage Book of African American Poetry with Michael S. Harper. Dos Santos is a Portuguese-American poet and translator. The reading can be attended in the shop or joined online.
Fri Oct 9 · 7:00pm
Cardboard House Press, which publishes Latin American poetry in bilingual editions, presents four poets: the Peruvian poets Victoria Guerrero-Peirano and Giancarlo Huapaya, with Judah Rubin and Honora Spicer, introduced by Jaime Francisco Matorras. The reading can be attended in person or online. Huapaya returns five days later to introduce William Rowe and Helen Dimos reading César Vallejo's Trilce.
Wed Oct 14 · 7:00pm
William Rowe and Helen Dimos read from their translation of Trilce, César Vallejo's 1922 collection, published by New York Review Books with the Spanish original, a more literal English version and a gloss for each poem. The translation won the Premio Valle-Inclán for translation from Spanish. Rowe is a British scholar of Latin American poetry, and the Peruvian poet Giancarlo Huapaya introduces.
Thu Oct 15 · 7:00pm
Arrowsmith Press and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute co-present the Ukrainian poet Yaryna Chornohuz, who has served in Ukraine's armed forces since 2020, first as a combat medic, and whose collections include Dasein: The Defense of Presence, with the poet and scholar Amira El-Zein, author of Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn. The novelist Askold Melnyczuk, founder of Arrowsmith Press, introduces.
Wed Oct 21 · 7:00pm
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator from the French whose collections include Songs & Ballads and The Upstate, is introduced by and in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin, the Boston-area writer whose books include Hammer Head, about leaving journalism to work as a carpenter, and Wake, Siren, a retelling of the women of Ovid. The reading can be attended in the shop or joined online.
Thu Oct 22 · 7:00pm
Andrea L. Fry launches Pawn Shop of Coincidence, her third poetry collection, published by the shop's own imprint, Grolier Poetry Press. Fry spent seventeen years as a cancer nurse practitioner, most recently at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and is the author of The Bottle Diggers and Poisons & Antidotes. Rob Bowers introduces her and joins her in conversation; the reading can also be joined online.
Thu Nov 5 · 7:00pm
Audrey Henderson and Alan Smith Soto present the Collected Poems of Mark Smith-Soto, the Costa Rican-American poet who edited International Poetry Review at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for many years and whose earlier books include Any Second Now and Berkeley Prelude. The reading can be attended in the shop or joined online.
Thu Nov 12 · 7:00pm
Tom Cole appears in conversation with Michael Bronski, who teaches women, gender and sexuality studies at Harvard. Bronski has written about gay culture and politics since the 1970s, from Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility (1984) to A Queer History of the United States, which won a Stonewall Book Award.
Wed Nov 18 · 7:00pm
Alfred Corn and Marilyn Hacker read, introduced by Lloyd Schwartz. Hacker won the National Book Award for Presentation Piece and has translated widely from the French; Corn has published a dozen collections since All Roads at Once in 1976; Schwartz is a Pulitzer-winning critic.
Wed Dec 2 · 7:00pm
Launch of the twelfth issue of spoKe, the Boston poetry annual Kevin Gallagher founded in response to the 2013 Marathon bombing, with readings by Kristin Prevallet, John Mulrooney and Nimi Wariboko, introduced by Gallagher, a poet and professor of global development policy at Boston University. Prevallet's books include I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time; Wariboko, born in Nigeria, teaches social ethics at Boston University's School of Theology.
Thu Dec 10 · 7:00pm
Four poets read: Rosemary Carroll, Miguel Coronado, Rob Macaisa Colgate and Nay Saysourinho. Colgate's debut, Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025), is built as an accessible art museum, its sections laid out as gallery rooms about life in a disabled body. Saysourinho's The Capture of Krao Farini, from Ugly Duckling Presse, is written in the imagined voice of a real sideshow performer brought to the United States around 1900.
