This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith.

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An Evening of Poetry: Barrow Street Press Poets

Ruben Quesada is a poet, translator, and editor. He edited the award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics. His writing appears in the Best American Poetry series, the New York Times Magazine, Orion Magazine, Harvard Review, The Believer, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, and elsewhere. His new poetry collection, Brutal Companion, won the Barrow Street Editors Prize, and was recognized as A Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California.

Carrie Bennett is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Mouth Is Also a Compass, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches writing at Boston University. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow and lives in Somerville, MA with her family.

Kevin McLellan is the author of: Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Poetry); in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology; Tributary; Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. Kevin’s poems have won award including the Third Coast Poetry Prize and the Oscar Wild Award. Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including: Berlin Short Film Festival; Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival; the Vancouver Queer Film Festival; and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival in which “Dick” won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/

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Run for the Hills

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiot

An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly.

Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all.

As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm?

Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.

Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Nothing to See Here, and The Family Fang, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age. Rakoff’s books have been translated into twenty languages, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, Authors’ Guild, PEN and more and has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Words. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and elsewhere, and her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger, is forthcoming.

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