Imbolc has come and gone and the days are getting longer. Celebrate the first stirrings of spring with a little poetry. Below are updated listings for February 2016 poetry readings in Boston, Massachusetts and environs. All readings are in Massachusetts unless otherwise noted.
Friday, February 5, 7 pm
Jen Grow, Kathy Flann, and Gint Aras
Out of the Blue Art Gallery Too
541 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
Saturday, February 6, 7:30 pm
Everett Hoagland, Susan Grace, BJ Nooth, and Catherine McLaughlin
Your Theatre Inc
136 Rivet St.
New Bedford
Wednesday, February 10, 7 pm
Mary Buchinger, Margaret Guillemin, Monika Totten, Gwendolyn Jensen, Adnan Adam and Kathryn Hellerstien
Hastings Room
First Church Congregationalist
11 Garden Street
Cambridge
Thursday, February 11, 6 pm
Daniel Bouchard, Kate Colby, Ruth Lepson, and Chloe Garcia-Roberts
Boston Originals Series
Woodberry Poetry Room
Lamont Library
Harvard University
Cambridge
Thursday, February 11, 7:30 pm
Christian Wiman
Rehm Library
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester
Friday, February 12, 7:30 pm
Paula Bonnell, Tom Daley, and Kevin Gallagher
Chapter and Verse
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain Centre
Sunday, February 14, 12 pm
Gregory Hischak and Terry Johnson
Poetry: The Art of Words
11 North St
Plymouth
Sunday, February 14, 3 – 5 pm
Danielle Legros George and Jennifer Jean
Poetry Reading to Benefit the Falmouth Service Center
Calliope: Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library
575 West Falmouth Highway
Falmouth, MA
$20, suggested donation
Wednesday, February 17, 7 pm
Alessandro De Francesco
McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown St.
Providence, RI
Wednesday, February 17, 7:30 pm
Claire Keyes and John Ronan
Gloucester Writers Center
126 East Main Street
Gloucester
Saturday, February 20, 6:30 pm
Pablo Medina, Jennifer Barber, Eleanor Goodman, and Sam Cha
reading original works and new translations
Us & Them: Boston
Arts @ the Armory Cafe
191 Highland Ave #1A
Somerville
Sunday, February 21, 2 pm
Sarah Howe and Amanda Hope
Brookline Poetry Series
Brookline Public Library Main Branch
361 Washington St.
Brookline
Monday, February 22, 8 pm
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson and Michael Morse
Blacksmith House
56 Brattle
Cambridge
Tuesday, February 23, 6 pm
Joseph Donahue and Ed Roberson
introduced by Keith Jones
Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm
Favorite Poem Project Reading
Introduced by Robert Pinsky, Members of the community read their favorite poems
Boston University, BU Hillel
213 Bay State Rd
Boston
Saturday, February 27, 5 pm
Let the Bucket Down: third issue, launch reading
with Gerrit Lansing, Amanda Cook, Lori Lubeski, Ruth Lepson, Levi Rubeck, Suzanne Mercury, Margo Lockwood, Michael Franco, Audrey Mardavich, and Patrick Doud
Gloucester Writers Center
126 East Main Street
Gloucester
Thursday, February 25, 2:30 pm
A. Van Jordan
McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown St.
Providence, RI
Garden of Words 