Two Page Tuesday

Six(ish) readers reading two pages of new work followed by social hour(s)

TPT #5
December 3, 2024 at

The Banshee (upstairs), 934 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02125

While we had a great time over at Charlie’s Kitchen in November, we’re looking forward to getting back to our roots at The Banshee for the last Two Page Tuesday of the year! We’ve got a great lineup of brand-new (to TPT) readers, and we COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED. See you on the 3rd!

As ever, socializing is strongly encouraged before and after the reading.

Readers (subject to change): Abby Perreault, Drew Bevis, Jake Phillips, Jim Flanagan, Lava Premal Panta, Meghan Miraglia

About

Two Page Tuesday is a prose and poetry reading series in Boston for local readers that grew out of a “literary folks” bar night that grew out of a very post-pandemic desire to build some kind of writing community. The reading piece of it came about when we thought, “Hey, it’d be fun to hear what folks are working on.”

The idea is to host a social night under the guise of a prose and poetry reading. We’ll start the reading late, whenever all the readers arrive and whenever we feel like starting. Until that point, we expect and encourage the folks in attendance to eat, drink, and be merry. During the reading, we expect respectful oos and ahhs and lots of clapping and encouragement. After the reading, we expect more merriment, eating, drinking, whatever. We like readings, and we also know that calling it a reading will get us on all the event lists and things (whereas saying “hey, we’re meeting at a bar!” does not, and not everybody likes bars anyway).

The constraint for readers is roughly as follows:

The motivating factor of its “two-page”edness is that it being a short reading is key. Long readings are too long and short readings are nice, and the secondary motivation behind the constraint is to encourage folks to show new work, in progress work, shit they’d otherwise maybe not think “polished” enough to share. The idea to create a space to hear what our local Boston poets and writers are writing now, not what they’d hastily shoved into some portfolio in a writing workshop six years ago.

If you’re interested in reading, come find Danny at one of the readings. Someday we’ll have a real mailing list you can sign up for online somewhere; for now we have a list that gets copied from one email blast to another. We probably won’t get social media, though. In the meantime, just come to a reading and talk to somebody and we’ll get you on the email chain one way or another.

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