The next Two Page Tuesday will take place May 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM upstairs at Charlie's Kitchen, 10 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA 02138, and feature readings by Cardinal Belgrave Jr., Christina Sun, Georgie Nink, Grace Ramsdell, Mary Coons, Nick Trefonides, and Nina MacLaughlin.

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About Two Page Tuesday (Briefly)

Two Page Tuesday is a prose and poetry reading series in Greater Boston consisting of six(ish) readers reading two pages of brand-new work, after which are any number of social hours during which we encourage readers and attendees to socialize, eat, drink, and generally be merry.

Long readings are too long, short readings are just right, and we love a reason to get out of the house and hang out with our wonderful friends and literary community. Please note that we especially encourage folks to stick around for karaoke (starting at 9 PM) on nights we read at Charlie’s Kitchen.

Upcoming Events

  • May 13, 2025, upstairs at Charlie's Kitchen

    Readers: Cardinal Belgrave Jr., Christina Sun, Georgie Nink, Grace Ramsdell, Mary Coons, Nick Trefonides, and Nina MacLaughlin.

  • June 10, 2025, upstairs at The Banshee

Past Events

  • TPT #1: June 04, 2024 at The Banshee

    Readers: Alicia Method, Cardinal Belgrave Jr., Jonny Lipshin, Lisa Allen, Megan Waring, Nick Roberts, and Nicole-Anne Bales Keyton

  • TPT #2: August 13, 2024 at The Banshee

    Readers: Caitlin Ghegan, Krisela Karaja, Logan Buckley, Megan Waring, Nick Roberts, and Nick Snow

  • TPT #3: October 08, 2024 at The Banshee

    Readers: Ali Lanier, Alia Georges, Cardinal Belgrave Jr., Hope Jordan, Jessica Dolby, Mary Coons, Sabina Lindsey, and Shannon Kafka

  • TPT #4: November 12, 2024 at Charlie's Kitchen

    Readers: Abbie Gregory, Andrew Dolby, Celeste Amidon, Jessica A. Kent, Jonny Lipshin, Molly Korroch, and Zach Bond

  • TPT #5: December 03, 2024 at The Banshee

    Readers: Abbey Perreault, Drew Bevis, Jake Phillips, Jim Flanagan, and Meghan Miraglia

  • TPT #6: January 12, 2025 at Charlie's Kitchen

    Readers: Alicia Method, Allyson Boggess, Ben Sunday, Cardinal Belgrave Jr, Maddie Kaprich, Nick Roberts, and Utkarsh Dev

  • TPT #7: February 11, 2025 at The Banshee

    Readers: Andria Warren, Dan Bouchard, Gracie Schufreider, Keira Hadlich, Liz Young, and Logan Buckley

  • TPT #8: March 11, 2025 at Charlie's Kitchen

    Readers: Ben Roth, E.B. Bartels, Jonny Lipshin, Kate Pyontek, Nick Snow, and Rebecca Connors

  • TPT #9: April 15, 2025 at The Banshee

    Readers: Ali Lanier, Jessica Dolby, Kinno, Lisa Allen, Maggie Cooper, and Megan Waring

About Two Page Tuesday (Less Briefly)

Two Page Tuesday is a prose and poetry reading series for readers in the Greater Boston area 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 reading limit is two pages, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or the equivalent. Poets reading one page single spaced at 12 points is fine. This is a very serious requirement!
  • Bonus points if you can think of a funny way to end your reading mid-sentence (complete thoughts are also, of course, perfectly fine).
  • It’s got to be new work, by which we mean: unpublished, not read publicly before. Shown to beta readers is fine.
  • Readers should be living in Boston, or within I-95, or in the general area, but we can and will be flexible about this.

The motivating factor of its “two-page”edness is that a short reading is key. A secondary motivation behind the constraint is to encourage folks to show new work, in progress work, work 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, find and talk to a guy named 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, come to a reading and talk to somebody and we’ll get you on the email chain one way or another.