-We offer excursions to literary events in Boston and beyond: students have attended readings and interacted with many professional writers, including Nobel Laureates (Louise Glück, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney), Pulitzer Prize-Winners (Franz Wright, Mark Strand, Philip Levine, Gary Snyder), American Poet Laureates (Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine, Jorie Graham, Galway Kinnell, Franz Wright, Sharon Olds), and other favorites (Marilynne Robinson, Gary Schmidt, Dave Eggers).
Playwrights ushering for Lynn Nottage’s play “Sweat” at the Huntington Theatre, Boston.Podcast-makers & storytellers put their names in the hat at The Moth, Boston.Our publishing coterie listens to a panel of lit journal editors at Porter Square Books, Cambridge.With Chris Anderson, at the Lit House, Gloucester.Debriefing after our visit with Marilynne Robinson at a Cambridge eatery.Literary gumshoes.Prof. Stevick won a StorySlam and was runner-up at a GrandSlam at the Somerville Theatre.