Burns Library will be hosting the following events during the Spring 2024 semester. We invite you to join our mailing list to receive announcements directly. Most events are free and open to the public as well as our Boston College community.
Directions, parking, and accessibility information are available on our website.
Selected events are videorecorded and added to the Burns Library Lectures playlist on the Boston College Libraries YouTube channel.
Hosted in conjunction with Boston College Arts Festival and Department of English
Friday, April 26
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Burns Library
The Creative Writing Concentration is a special track of the English major. Brady Arquin, William Cornelisse, Kerin Dalton, Julia DiGregorio, Kathryn Gilmore, Isaiah Lopez, Beatriz Isabel Pugeda, and Sophia Shay are this year’s graduates. Seniors will read briefly from their work with a reception to follow.
Sponsored by Boston College Libraries, English Department, Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies, East European and Eurasian Studies Program, and Boston College Bookstore.
Tuesday, April 30
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Burns Library
Burns Library is pleased to host a celebration of two recent collections of poetry by Boston College faculty. Eric Weiskott will read from Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and Maxim D. Shrayer will read from Kinship (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Fellow faculty poets Allison Adair and Andrew Sofer will offer introductions and Burns Librarian Christian Dupont will moderate the program and discussion. Refreshments and book sales and signings will follow.
Eric Weiskott is Professor of English at Boston College. He grew up in Greenport, New York, a whaling village on the east end of Long Island. Weiskott is the author most recently of the poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and the scholarly monograph Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). His poems appear in Fence, Texas Review, and Exacting Clam.
Maxim D. Shrayer is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. He was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987. Shrayer is the author of over twenty-five books in English and Russian. He has published four collections of poetry in Russian, most recently Stikhi iz aipada (Poems from the iPad, Tel Aviv, 2022) and two collections in English, Of Politics and Pandemics (2020) and Kinship (2024).
