The Tannery Series

05/14/2016

Did you know it rains poetry in our fair city? Our friends at Mass Poetry have an amazing new project bringing poems to the pavement of Boston. Check it out as you walk around this spring!

04/13/2016

Series co-founder and storyteller extraordinaire, Dawne Shand, was the featured on this super cool podcast! Take a listen and treat yourself to an excellent tale of "Alabama, Alcohol & Momma."

Apr 11, 2016 - TFTS #276 ”An Unlikely Cocktail: Alabama, Alcohol, and Momma" by Dawne Shand

03/02/2016

Looking for a great writing workshop? TTS founder Kirun Kapur will be teaching a one week poetry intensive at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in June. Find your voice in beautiful P-town!

The most basic elements of a poem are voice and breath. The first poems were intended to be heard, repeated. Modern technology takes us back to this earliest understanding of a poem, with podcasts, streaming, and digital recording. We will focus on writing which honors the voice, creating work that…

02/08/2016

Many thanks to Carla Power, Anila Quayyum Agha and our partners at the Peabody Essex Museum for a wonderful Sunday full of conversation and exploration. A special thank you goes out to all our workshop participants--a generous, spectacular bunch!

02/05/2016

Here we are in the Globe! Come join the conversation on Sunday at the Peabody Essex Museum.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/01/30/new-england-literary-news/GhXGzclYLq0VPSgFpfpWPN/story.html

02/04/2016

We're gearing up for one of our most exciting programs ever: Sacred Spaces. We'll explore Islam, the West, the secular, the divine and so much more. Artist Anila Agha and National Book Award finalist Carla Power will join us for a conversation that is personal, political and very timely. You come, too!
Sunday 2/7, 1pm @ the Peabody Essex Museum

01/25/2016

Where can Islam and the West come together? Where can the traditional meet the modern, the secular touch the divine, exclusion become understanding? Join The Tannery Series, for two unforgettable events. First, be part of a conversation between National Book Award finalist Carla Power (If The Oceans Were Ink) and Intersections artist Anila Agha about bringing together opposing forces and inhabiting a sacred space. Then, discover your own sacred spaces in a writing workshop lead by Power, Agha and Tannery Series founder Kirun Kapur. More info on our website. Join us at the Peabody Essex Museum!

01/19/2016

Want a preview of our next event? We'll be headed back to the Peabody Essex Museum to work with an incredible installation by artist Anila Agha. Take a peak here and get ready to join us for SACRED SPACES--a reading, conversation & writing workshop on Feb 7th.

Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha uses light and cast shadow to transform Rice Gallery into a sacred space of her own making that is open to all. “Intersections”…

01/14/2016

Tannery Series author, Major Jackson is featured this month on The Drum, a Literary Magazine For Your Ears! If you missed his November reading with us, you can catch him reading three poems in this great podcast.

Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears by The Drum Literary Magazine for free.

11/17/2015

Our friends at Mass Poetry are planning a spectacular fundraiser. Where else can you spend the evening with David McCullough, Robert Pinsky, Andre Dubus (plus a whole host of Massachusetts luminaries) AND support poetry programs, which reach thousands of public school students in underserved school districts? The Tannery Series will be there on Dec 7th. Please join us!

Join Massachusetts’ brightest leaders as they share the stage and a poem in support of Mass Poetry. Attend a remarkable evening, as exceptional leaders from diverse fields read a poem and reflect on its connection to their life and work. The evening is a fundraiser for Mass Poetry’s many wonderful…

10/24/2015

We're in the Boston Globe! The Boston Book Festival kicks into high gear today. Come join us at First Church Auditorium, 66 Marlborough Street, 12:30 p.m.

October 23 and 24, the Boston Book Festival takes over Copley Square. Here are 10 sessions you shouldn’t miss.

10/22/2015

Emily Dickinson and two smart, interesting modern girls come together in Cindy L. Rodriguez's debut novel--What could be better? Click below to learn more about Cindy and her wonderful book, then come talk with her this Saturday, when The Tannery Series heads to the Boston Book Festival.