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Tagged: Literary

Writing Workshop with Eva Salzman: Imagining Reality

11-1-22

Join poet Eva Salzman for a Saturday morning workshop and explore the notion of truth in creative writing. We will be doing a close reading of two contemporary poems by British poet Simon Armitage and American poet Roger Mitchell as the springboard. Is it a lie to fictionalize reality for the purpose of art? In an age of distressing fake...

Writers in Your Neighborhood

3-7-22

Salem has a long, distinguished literary history that continues today. This special event will allow you to sample the writing of several authors who are members of the Athenaeum or North Shore residents — the prose and verse of your talented neighbors. Cozy up to your computer with a warm cup of something and get a taste of their work,...

Eric Fisher: Mighty Storms of New England—An Evening of Infamous New England Weather

2-17-22

The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Snowstorms, floods, droughts, heat waves, arctic blasts, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other atmospheric oddities come...

Michael Blanding: North by Shakespeare

1-20-22

Boston-based investigative journalist Michael Blanding tells the true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuth’s quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the English language’s most famous plays and gives us an insider’s view of the vibrant era of Elizabethan England and the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic...