Bring your lunch and an appetite for poetry. Meet from 12 noon to 1:30, the first Thursday of the month at the Main Library (361 Washington Street, Brookline Village). Each month we will look at half a dozen poems of a well known poet. We will provide copies of the poems and lead a discussion after … Continue reading A Taste of Poetry at Brookline Village Library | Alan Ginsberg →

Changing of the Bard: An evening of poetry with Brookline poets laureate past & present Judith Steinbergh, Jan Schreiber and Zvi A Seslin reading The Poetry of New England.

Bring your lunch and an appetite for poetry. Each month the group will look at half a dozen poems by a well-known poet. The library will provide copies of the poems and lead a discussion after reading them. No sign-up or preparation is necessary. Taste of Poetry CD Wright This month the poetry of C.D. Wright

Double feature... Andrea Cohen and Lloyd Schwartz Andrea Cohen’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her most recent book of poems is Unfathoming (Four Way Books 2017). Other books include Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division, and The Cartographer’s Vacation. Cohen directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA and the Writers House at Merrimack College. Lloyd … Continue reading Brookline Poetry Series | Andrea Cohen & Lloyd Schwartz →

David Ricciardi discusses his novel, Warning Light, with Joseph Finder. In Warning Light, when a foreign airliner is forced to make an emergency landing at an Iranian airport, an American businessman is separated from the other passengers and secretly arrested on charges of espionage. Alone and against overwhelming odds, he soon finds himself battling for … Continue reading Warning Light | Book reading & discussion David Ricciardi →

Brookline's Poet Laureate, Zvi A Sesling, will present poets reading works in their original languages followed by the English translation. Random House Unabridged Dictionary (2006) defines poetry as "the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful imaginative or elevated thoughts".  Come by to listen to some beautiful works and see if the … Continue reading Poetry in Translation | Brookline Village Library →

The Underground Railroad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, by Colson Whitehead, is this year’s Brookline Reads selection. Join the Brookline Library for the finale of Brookline Reads for a discussion with Colson Whitehead about his book. Mr. Whitehead will then sign copies of his book. The event begins at 7 PM, and doors will open … Continue reading The Underground Railroad | discussion with author Colson Whitehead →

The May Brookline Poetry Series features A Van Jordan, with the opener Maya Phillips. Van Jordan is the author of four collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (2005), which was listed as one of the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics (2007); and The Cineaste (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013). Jordan … Continue reading Brookline Poetry Series | A Van Jordan →

The Friends of the Brookline Library are excited to announce the theme of this year's annual meeting: Leading Women. The speaker is prize-winning author of the best-selling "Eleanor and Hick", Susan Quinn. All are welcome!

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, a noted authority on ADHD, will talk about his heartwarming, humorous new memoir called, “Because I Come From a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist,” a paean to the mentally ill and those who love them, at Brookline Booksmith For more information call 617-566-6660.