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Tuesday, April 7th

W W Norton

Price: $29.95

 
ROBERT PINSKY'S
 
RECITATION CELEBRATION

Luminaries from Various Walks
of Life Read Poetry Aloud

$5 tickets on sale now.

Harvard Book Store is delighted to present ROBERT PINSKY and his RECITATION CELEBRATION, an evening of poetry readings presented by, well, not the usual suspects.

Orators will include...

JODY ADAMS

     James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Rialto restaurant 

TOM MAGLIOZZI

     Peabody Award-winning co-host of NPR's Car Talk

STEPHEN GREENBLATT

     John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and prize-winning author 

STEVEN PINKER 

     Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard and prize-winning author

MICHAEL HOLLEY

     Host of Celtics Now, co-host of WEEI's Dale & Holley Show, and best-selling author

BILL LITTLEFIELD

     Host of NPR's Only A Game, author, and veteran sports commentator

 

Poems will be selected from Mr. Pinsky's new anthology, Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud

CONTACT:

General Info:
617.661.1515

Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1

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Event Information

DATE: Tuesday, April 7th
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: First Parish Church Meetinghouse
On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Cambridge
TICKETS: Tickets for this event are $5 and can be purchased at Harvard Book Store, over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515, or online (see below). Please note that online sales end one day before in-store sales.

Robert Pinsky was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000. The author of numerous collections, he is the poetry editor of Slate and the creator of the Favorite Poem Project. He lives and teaches in Boston.

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