Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2010 Event Descriptions

Poetry of Love, Loss and Healing

10:00am Boston Public Library Popular Reading Room 700 Boylston Street

In times of great happiness, and in times of great loss, many people turn to poetry, a form capable of distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are beautiful. Three brilliant poets, Kevin Young, editor of the new anthology The Art of Losing, Jill McDonough, author of Habeus Corpus, and Meg Kearney, author of the PEN/L.L. Winship Award-winning Home By Now, read and discuss poems of love, loss and healing. Hosted by Harvard professor and poet Stephen Burt. Sponsored by the Mass Poetry Festival.