Two Page Tuesday

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

TPT #6
January 14, 2025 at

Charlie's Kitchen (upstairs), 10 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Let’s ring in the new year with more new poems and stories and memoirs and all the good things! We’ll be at Charlie’s this month, so we can also keep the good times rolling at karaoke at 9pm after the reading.

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

Readers (subject to change): TK

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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