Literary Benefit for One Fund Boston

The Boston literary community is holding a reading this Thursday, May 2, at 6 p.m., at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston, to support those most affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. Among those reading are Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate; Sue Miller, author of While I Was Gone and The Lake Shore Limited; Fanny Howe, poet, fiction writer and essayist; author and AGNI editor Sven Birkerts; and poet Jill McDonough. Others will be named later.

A donation of $10 is suggested, and all proceeds will go to One Fund Boston. The organizers' fundraising goal is $5,000.

This reading is sponsored by Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Grub Street, BU Center for the Humanities and College of General Studies, the Woodberry Poetry Room, Consequence Magazine, the Mass Cultural Council, Suffolk University Poetry Center, the Academy of American Poets, the ALSCW, the Mass Poetry Festival, Harvard Bookstore, Black Ocean, Aforementioned Productions, the National Writers Union and the Boston Poetry Union.

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