Category: Events

Poetry + Jazz

March 4, 2014 at 9:39 AM

Join us at the BU Playwright’s Theatre (949 Comm Ave) for a free evening of poetry and jazz! Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 Featuring BU’s very own Robert Pinsky! and Grammy award-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood, saxophonist Stan Strickland, and bassist John Lockwood!

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“The Matter with Words”, a talk with Tim Parks

October 17, 2011 at 3:45 PM

If you’re on campus, the ASLCW invites you to claim at seat in the Editorial Institute library tomorrow at 5:15 for a talk with novelist and translator Tim Parks. Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, […]

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BU in the Boston Globe

October 21, 2010 at 3:44 PM

Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured a short piece on John Irving’s Tuesday, October 19, 2010 lecture, sponsored by the Boston University Creative Writing Department. John Irving read from a work-in-progress, his thirteenth novel, and answered questions from the audience. The event was hosted by Leslie Epstein, Director of Creative Writing at BU. http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/10/21/novelist_irving_takes_twisted_path_to_bu/ Boston University’s own […]

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Women in Literary Arts (WILA) Conference

August 7, 2009 at 2:32 PM

BU Alumna, Erin Belieu, along with Cate Marvin are planning a Women in Literary Arts Conference, and there is a considerable amount of excitement about the proposed conference, and I think a lot of our grads, and current students may be interested in attending. It’s likely to be in the Boston area, either in late […]

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Notes on a Reading

June 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM

  On the twenty-third of June, 2009, we met at Newtonville Books for a reading in celebration of issue 69 of AGNI. Editor Sven Birkerts introduced himself with an apology; he’d just returned from a writers’ retreat, where several times daily he was made to stand behind a lectern introducing fresh new voice after fresh new voice. […]

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Charles Simic

June 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Here’s a link to the Charles Simic reading at the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture back in February. Video of the Faculty Reading should be available shortly. [View video]

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Rachel DeWoskin

May 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Creative Writing alumna, Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ’00), will be reading from her new novel Repeat After Me, her fiction debut (her wonderful memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing first appeared in 2005), on June 9th at the BU Barnes & Noble, starting at 7:00 pm, in their 5th floor reading room.  Congratulations, Rachel, and here’s hoping everyone can […]

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Commencement, May 2009

May 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Christopher Martin, Michael Towers, and Alexis Kozak, moments before the commencement ceremony began. After commencement, our three students celebrate with William Fancher. 

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