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A Virtual Reading with Desirée Alvarez

May 5, 2020 - By Desirée Alvarez

Poet Desirée Alvarez (Volume 61, Issue 1) reads from her latest book, Raft of Flame (OmniDawn).

A Virtual Reading with Danusha Laméris

May 3, 2020 - By Danusha Laméris

The Massachusetts Review presents a virtual poetry reading with Danusha Laméris, featuring her poemfrom the Spring 2020 issue , "Detour." 

Amy Leach Reads Her "Safari"

January 15, 2016 - By Mass Review

Syria in Words and Music

January 15, 2015 - By Mass Review

Rasha Abbas and her English translator Alice Guthrie read original stories and nonfiction from Syria. The reading is accompanied by the Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble, with a program of all Syrian music, featuring master oud player Kinan Idnawi.

Erri De Luca's "A Dissenting Word"

January 15, 2015 - By Mass Review

In this video blog, Massachusetts Review editor and translator Jim Hicks reads selections from the English translation of Erri De Luca's A Dissenting Word. De Luca is currently being tried in Italy for expressing -- during an interview on the Italian site of the Huffington Post -- his solidarity with the Susa Valley's NO TAV activists, a resistance group that opposes the construction of a high-speed train line between Lyon and Torino. If convicted, De Luca could be sent to prison for up to five years.