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Lit Crawl Boston 2024
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Thursday, June 6
 

6:00pm PDT

Black Seed Writers
Since 2011, via its magazine The Pilgrim and its imprint No Fixed Address Press, the Black Seed Writers Group has been bringing the news from the homeless community of downtown Boston. At this one-of-a-kind event, Black Seed writers and their editor, Atlantic columnist James Parker, present their reportage and editorials of remembrance, celebration, and defiance.
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Boston Figurative Art Center 285 Washington Street
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Boston Comic Arts Foundation Presents Jannie Ho
Join author/illustrator Jannie Ho (The Lost Mitten) as she illuminates the process of creating graphic novels. Bring your creativity and 'panel vision' as together we write and draw our very own comic strip. Sponsored by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation.
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
HUB Comics 19 Bow Street
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Live from the Underground: The HeyDay of College Radio
College radio’s weird, wacky signals offer music far outside the mainstream. But this wasn’t always the case. Fitchburg State professor Kate Jewell’s history explores how college and community DJs debated the democratic obligations of their signals and together constructed a way of doing radio that served many audiences and, ultimately, transformed popular music.
Speakers
avatar for Kate Jewell


Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
The Jungle 6 Sanbourn Ct.
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Redacted Poetry with QT Library
At this micro wedding chapel, participants select a page from a book by a queer author and use that page, markers, and a range of art supplies to create, decorate, and share blackout poems. It's emotion by subtraction! QT Library is a Boston-based collective of LGBTQIA+ artists and organizers preparing to open a brick-and-mortar lending library and community space.

Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Dearly Studio Bow Market #18
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Teens in Print: Youth Journalism Immersion
An initiative of WriteBoston, Teens in Print: Youth Journalism Immersion is an audio-visual experience of how teen reporters look at recent changes in the City of Boston. Topics engaged with (but not limited to) include community, communal spaces, the MBTA, public art, and gentrification. Come see what the next leaders of Boston’s journalist and literary community are up to!

Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Warehouse XI 11 Sanbourn Ct.
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Telling the Story of the Big Dig, with Ian Coss
Ian Coss – host of The Big Dig podcast which just won a Peabody Award – shocks and awes with images and stories of ambitious undertakings from our City's past and explores what and who will build our City for tomorrow.  Come for the insights, get the low-down on the drama.  “Who knew a story about infrastructure could be so entertaining?,” as one Big Dig listener commented.
Speakers
avatar for Ian Coss


Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Culture House 16 Union Square
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Honor a Trailblazer
Imagination! who can sing thy force? wrote Phillis Wheatley, the 18th century poet recognized as the mother of African-American literature. Dive into the treasure and influence of Wheatley and her work with Danielle Legros Georges and Artress Bethany White, editors of the groundbreaking new anthology Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters. Poet Denise Washington and drummer Robert Bellinger join the performance.
Speakers
avatar for Danielle Legros Georges

Danielle Legros Georges

Photo Credit: Jennifer Waddell
avatar for Artress Bethany White


Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Rococo Floral Co. 231 Somerville Ave.
  6-6:50pm

6:00pm PDT

Make Your Own Button with COVEN for Good
The women of COVEN  (a Charitable Organization of Very Enthusiastic Nerds) invite you to wear your lit-love proudly. Swing by to create a literary-themed button or color in lit-themed drawings. While you are there, step up to the Wheel of Fortune for a chance to spin the wheel, answer literary trivia, and win a prize that you know will be awesome because Very Enthusiastic Nerds selected it!
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Rebel Rebel (Patio) 1 Bow Market Way
  6-9:00 pm

6:00pm PDT

On-The-Spot Poems
Celebrated Boston-area poets write custom poems for Lit Crawlers. Offer a subject, word, image, or feeling, tell a story, or chat with the poets to discover a topic. Armed with honest-to-goodness clickety-clack typewriters, handmade paper, and their literary imaginations, they will create a poem for you in minutes – free of charge!
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Bow Market Courtyard 1 Bow Market Way
  6-9:00 pm

6:00pm PDT

Porter Square Books Pop-Up
Books by Lit Crawl Boston authors are available for purchase throughout the evening.
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Bow Market Courtyard 1 Bow Market Way
  6-9:00 pm

6:00pm PDT

Side Quest Books & Games
Thursday June 6, 2024 6:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Bow Market Courtyard 1 Bow Market Way
  6-9:00 pm

7:00pm PDT

Beer in Revolutionary Boston
When Paul Revere and John Hancock talked politics, they did so while imbibing in Boston's taverns. Join historian Brooke Barbier to learn about the key role that beer and drinking culture played during the American Revolution. The founder of Ye Olde Tavern Tours, she is the author of King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father. Grab a revolutionary flight of Remnant's beers and wet your whistle to shout Huzza!
Speakers
avatar for Brooke Barbier


Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Remnant Brewing (Beer Garden) 2 Bow Market Way
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Boston Poetry Slam
The words are flying fast and fierce at this competitive poetry event,  judged "NUPIC-style" (the haiku that gets the loudest audience response wins). Audience members are invited to throw down as well.  Sign up upon entrance. The competition is bracket-style until one person wins.  So get ready to rumble, er, slam!
Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
The Jungle 6 Sanbourn Ct.
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Murder Mystery
Twenty-five years ago, a group of children won a contest to tour a chocolate factory in England. Yesterday, they reunited after receiving some shocking news, and one of them was poisoned at the reunion. Oh, the horror! In this interactive murder mystery, you will question the suspects and analyze the clues to discover who did it amongst the chocolate,the gummies, and Gracie's Ice Cream.  

Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Gracie's Ice Cream 22 Union Square
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Conversations with Art: Ekphrastic Writing
Art urges us to look more closely at the world around us, and at ourselves. In this generative writing workshop, participants choose an image to have a “conversation” with and are given prompts and questions. After having this dialogue with art, the participants pick eight of their favorite lines and arrange them into a working draft of an ekphrastic poem.
Speakers
avatar for Alexis Ivy
avatar for Heather Nelson

Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Boston Figurative Art Center 285 Washington Street
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Keith Knight in Conversation with Joel Christian Gill
Psst, tucked between the shelves at one of the leading comic book stores in Greater Boston, cartoonists swap intel about how to tell stories through panel drawings. Listen in on the conversation with cartoonist (and Malden native) Keith Knight, creator of The K Chronicles, (Th)ink, and the new graphic novel I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! and Joel Christian Gill, the chair for Visual Narrative at Boston University. Gill is also the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence and illustrator of the graphic novel of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped From the Beginning.
Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
HUB Comics 19 Bow Street
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Let Evening Come
Poetry paired with wine!  Dionysus must surely be tickled. To celebrate Bloc’s summertime “Wine Night” in partnership with the Greater Boston natural winery Marzae, three local poets “pair” work from their latest collections with glasses of wine. Anne Pluto is the author of How Many Miles to Babylon, Linda Carney-Goodrich is the author of Dot Girl, and Deborah Leipziger is the author of Story & Bone.
Speakers
avatar for Deborah Leipziger
avatar for Elizabeth Pluto
avatar for Linda Carney-Goodrich

Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
BLOC Cafe 11 Bow Street
  7-7:50pm

7:00pm PDT

Two Truths and a Lie: Climate Fiction Edition
Authors Julie Carrick Dalton (The Last Beekeeper) and Nick Fuller Googins (The Great Transition) join forces with Erika Spanger from the Union of Concerned Scientists to host an offbeat climate quiz show. From climate utopia and technology to animal confusion and the extravagant lives of climate criminals, which climate stories are real, and which are pure fiction?  This very well could go into a "lightning" round!  
Speakers
avatar for Nick Fuller Googins

Thursday June 6, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Culture House 16 Union Square
  7-7:50pm

8:00pm PDT

Boston in 100 Words: 4th Annual Awards Ceremony
Come get your brevity on! The organizers of Boston in 100 Words invite you to celebrate the winning stories from this year's contest. This includes the big reveal of the original artwork created for each winning story and finalists sharing their stories as well. 
Thursday June 6, 2024 8:00pm - 8:50pm PDT
The Neighborhood
  8-8:50

8:00pm PDT

Boston Women Writers History Bingo
Deborah Norkin, president of the Boston chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, hosts this game-show-style trivia event. The panel consists of women writers savvy - but are they really? - to Boston's female literary history.  Cheer them on while playing along with Bingo game cards. Whoever has the most answers at the end of the event wins a prize.
Speakers
avatar for Deborah Norkin
avatar for Virginia Pye
avatar for Jessica A. Kent
avatar for Caitlin Avery
avatar for Dina Vargo


Thursday June 6, 2024 8:00pm - 8:50pm PDT
Boston Figurative Art Center 285 Washington Street
  8-8:50

8:00pm PDT

Exquisite Corpse
Join Massachusetts Center for the Book and author Courtney Sender to play a round of Exquisite Corpse! Participants contribute sentences to build a number of stories, which then are read aloud. Bring your creativity and humor – laughs are guaranteed!
Thursday June 6, 2024 8:00pm - 8:50pm PDT
BLOC Cafe 11 Bow Street
  8-8:50

8:00pm PDT

Los Lorcas: Poetry in Concert
The house band of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Los Lorcas is a synthesis of music, poetry, and spoken word – a rare and adaptable trans-genre animal. In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca – gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright and ebullient performer – poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up.  And yes, we too find it way cool that Grolier has a house band.

Thursday June 6, 2024 8:00pm - 8:50pm PDT
Warehouse XI 11 Sanbourn Ct.
  8-8:50

8:00pm PDT

The Here Comes Everybody Players
Enjoy the humor, pathos, and extraordinary language of the work of James Joyce as these veteran Lit Crawlers present short theatrical adaptations of Joyce’s literary work, with music by the HCE Trio. If you are not familiar with Joyce, this will be a great introduction. If you already know his work, you may recognize some familiar pieces – or discover some new ones!

Thursday June 6, 2024 8:00pm - 8:50pm PDT
Remnant Brewing (Beer Garden) 2 Bow Market Way
  8-8:50
 
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