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	The Last Two Seconds: Poems by Mary Jo Bang Price $16.00 Paperback Special Order


	Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido Price $18.00 Paperback Special Order


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	Roll Deep: Poems by Major Jackson Price $26.95 Hardcover Special Order

An Evening of Poetry with Boston Review

featuring

MARY JO BANG
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO
STEPHEN BURT
MAJOR JACKSON

presenting

The Last Two Seconds: Poems
Stay, Illusion: Poems
Belmont: Poems
Roll Deep: Poems

This event includes a book signing

Date

Dec

Wednesday
December 9, 2015
8:00 PM ET
(Doors at 6:30)

Location

Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store and Boston Review welcome some of contemporary poetry's most prominent figures, MARY JO BANG, LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO, STEPHEN BURT, and MAJOR JACKSON for a reading and book signing at the Cambridge Public Library. The evening will be introduced by Boston Review's poetry editors TIMOTHY DONNELLY, STEFANIA HEIM, and BARBARA FISCHER.

Featured Titles

Available for purchase at the event:

The Last Two Seconds: Poems
Stay, Illusion: Poems
Belmont: Poems
Roll Deep: Poems

Lucie Brock-Broido

Lucie Brock-Broido’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry. She has taught at Bennington College, Princeton University, and Harvard University. Her 2013 book of poetry, Stay, Illusion, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award.

Photo Credit: Karen Meyers

Major Jackson

Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry including the forthcoming collection The Absurd Man, Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn, finalist of a National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is the editor of Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in Agni, American Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

Photo Credit: Erin Patrice O'Brien

Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang is the author of seven books of poetry including Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Berlin Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. She served as the poetry co-editor of Boston Review from 1995 to 2005 and is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing is often praised for its deft mixture of post-modern elements with a disciplined, formal control of language.

Photo Credit: Kellie Spano

Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt is a poet, critic, and professor at Harvard University. In 2012, The New York Times called him “one of the most influential poetry critics of his generation.” He has published three collections of poetry and numerous works of criticism; his book, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is currently a professor of English at Harvard University.

Photo Credit: Alex Dakoulas

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