Massachusetts Poetry in Hard Times: Ifeanyi Menkiti, David Ferry, Suji Kwock Kim, Jill McDonough, Gail Mazur, and Lloyd Schwartz join Christopher Lydon to read the best of classic and contemporary Massachusetts poets.  Each of the participants will read work of a classic Massachusetts author — including, among others, Emily Dickinson, Frank O’Hara, and Phillis Wheatley -- then they will read the work of a fellow panelist.  More details at http://www.fordhallforum.org/programs/masspoetry.
 
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University.  Founded in 1908, the Ford Hall Forum is the nation’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series.