Brookline Main Library

May featured reader:

PABLO MEDINA was born in Havana, Cuba and moved to New York City at the age of 12. He has published 13 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation, including most recently the poetry collections, Cubop City Blues (Grove Press, 2012), and The Man Who Wrote on Water (Hanging Loose Press, 2011). His work has appeared in magazines and journals worldwide and has been translated into several languages. He has received fellowships from the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, the state arts councils of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He currently lives in Boston and is professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College.

Timing:
• 1:30 PM • Doors open
• 1:45 PM • Open mike sign-up
• 2 – 4 PM • Poetry readings

The Brookline Poetry Series meets once a month on Sunday afternoons (usually the 3rd Sunday of the month in Brookline Main Library but check the library calendar for confirmation), September through May. Usually, one or two established poets read, followed by an open mike. In the years since our inception in 2001 we have featured the best contemporary voices in American poetry, as well as many fine local poets.

We are dedicated to providing a forum for poets of all experience to listen and read their work. In 2005, the Boston Globe named us the Best in Boston for our open mike.

We welcome all Boston-area poets to our series – poetry@brooklinelibrary.org