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URL:https://lindacarneygoodrich.com/events/boston-book-festival-poetry-mak
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SUMMARY:Boston Book Festival: Poetry Makes Us Brave
DESCRIPTION:Boston Book Festival\n\nSaturday\, October 25 at 11:00am to 12:
 30pm \nPoetry Makes Us Brave Linda will present with Krysten Hill\, Rachel
  Dillon\, Deborah Leipziger\, and Tzynya Pinchback \nVenue: The Goethe Ins
 titute\, 170 Beacon Street\, Boston Ma 02116.\n\nAudre Lorde said\, "but w
 hen we are silent / we are still afraid / So it is better to speak." Poetr
 y calls on us to be both courageous and vulnerable. How do we find the cou
 rage to write the truth about our lives? How can we witness change and cha
 os in brave ways? This panel features five poets who will discuss how poet
 ry can make us feel braver and share some of their bold words. In her firs
 t collection\, Dot Girl\, Linda Carney-Goodrich breaks new ground in her s
 earing poems of redemption and transformation. She takes us by the hand an
 d guides us through her childhood\, coming of age in Boston and surviving 
 foster care. Rachel Dillon's poems show both the revery and destruction of
  humans moving through the natural world\, while asking us to be brave for
  what is to come. Our hands are needed to repair what has been broken and 
 to hold close what we cherish. Krysten Hill's How Her Spirit Got Out is a 
 lively\, urgent song. With intensity\, audacity\, and a darkly comic wit\,
  Hill grapples with the question of how to fight "a city that knows you're
  unarmed\," rendering each poem as a weapon and a shield\, and using both 
 for self-defense. In Story & Bone\, Deborah Leipziger delves into matters 
 at the core of our very being: identity\, heritage\, and belonging. Tzynya
  Pinchback writes the Black woman body in nature\, in illness\, and in joy
  as a deliberate act. Pinchback is currently participating in the "Writing
  the Land Project\," connecting writers to conserved landscapes across the
  Northeast. Sponsored by Mass Poetry\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Readings
LOCATION:The Goethe Institute\, 170 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, U
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