Where:
CCAE
56 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$5
Event website:
https://ccae.org/happenings/events/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-suzanne-buffam-and-valerie-duff
Vievee Francis reads from her new book, The Shared World, with Matthew Olzmann, whose most recent collection is Constellation Route.
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Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. All readings take place in person at 56 Brattle Street on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5 and tickets are available at the door.
Vievee Francis
Vievee Francis is the author of four collections of poetry including The Shared World, Forest Primeval, Horse in the Dark, and Blue-Tail Fly. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry and elsewhere. She serves as an associate editor of Callaloo and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olzmann’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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