Calendar Alerts: Poetry

Pine Manor College announces that the application deadline for the spring 2010 semester of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program is November 16, 2009 (not a postmark date; materials must be received by our offices before or on November 16). The spring 2010 semester begins with our winter residency, January 1 to January 10. For detailed program information and a downloadable application form, go to: www.pmc.edu/mfa

READINGS & EVENTS

Fiction writer and Solstice MFA writer-in-residence Dennis Lehane will be appearing (along with Solstice favorites Andre Dubus III and Tom Perrotta and a host of other luminaries) at the Boston Book Festival, scheduled for Saturday, October 24 in Copley Square, Boston. http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php NOTE from Kingdom Books: The ONLY poet scheduled for the festival so far is Robert Pinsky.

Pine Manor MFA Director and poet Meg Kearney’s latest book, Home By Now, is available for preordering from Amazon and will be available in stores starting October 15. She will be giving readings throughout the fall, beginning with a reading on Sunday, September 27 at 3 p.m. at Del Rossi’s Trattoria, RR 137, Dublin, NH. 603-563-7195.