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Shrayer’s ‘Zion Square’
Zion Square (Ben Yehuda Press, 2025) is a new poetry collection from Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer. It is a book of war, love, despair, and mourning. Shrayer says he worked on the … Continue reading
Sublime poetry
Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism (Broadstone Books, 2024) is a collection of poetry by 1976 Boston College graduate Michael Brosnan. According to the publisher: “In this profound volume of experimental poetry, Michael Brosnan exhibits exquisite control as he employs (and … Continue reading
Kinship
Kinship, a new poetry collection from Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer, weaves together some of the principal themes in modern Jewish history, exploring such topics as ancestry in Eastern Europe, the Shoah, antisemitism, … Continue reading
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Poet Solmaz Sharif
Solmaz Sharif, author of the poetry collection Customs, will give a public reading as part of a two-day residency at Boston College. Her reading will take place on April 25 in Devlin 101 beginning at 5 p.m. Look, an earlier … Continue reading
Joy Harjo: Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature
Award-winning poet, musician, and performer Joy Harjo will present “Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature” at Boston College on February 21 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Harjo was the first Native … Continue reading
New poetry from Pluto
How Many Miles to Babylon? (Lily Poetry Review, 2023) is a new poetry collection from Anne Elezabeth Pluto, a faculty member in the Woods College of Advancing Studies. Pluto ponders sorrow, grief, and endurance in what is described as “an … Continue reading
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Poems from Eric Weiskott
Professor of English Eric Weiskott, a scholar of poetry and poetics, has a new poetry chapbook, Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023). From the publisher: “His work is a shipboard reverie about the American boat we’re all in. Prose … Continue reading
Politics and the pandemic
Maxim D. Shrayer, award-winning author and professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, explores the impact of election-year politics and COVID-19 in his new volume of poems titled Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. … Continue reading
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