Reception starts at 5:30PM with a special Write on the DOT menu:
Author's Ales: Narragansett (16oz cans) $3
Harpoon IPA $4
Reader's Respite: Twin Vines Vinho Verde $5/glass
"The Hemingway": Bacardi Limon, Peach Shnapps, & lemonade $6.50
Plus $5 appetizer specials of Cajun Fried Dill Spears, Whiskey BBQ Pulled Pork Tostada, Buffalo Bleu Cheese Fries, & Margarita
flatbread. (Thanks to Savin Bar & Kitchen for personalizing these specials for our attendees!)
Reading starts at 6PM in the private downstairs space.
Featuring: Eric Maxson, Willie Pleasants, Alexandra Sladky, & Liam Day
with Anna Ross, Krysten Hill, Sam Cha, Virginia Magboo, Natty Forsythe, & Fawzi Nicolas.
Come celebrate 1-year of Write on the DOT, the end of spring semester,
and the (close enough) beginning of summer.
Reader Bios:
Eric Maxson works in the Creative Writing Program at UMass
Boston. A former Savin Hill resident, he now lives in East Boston. His fiction
has most recently appeared in the Black
Warrior Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The details of
the first story he wrote are vaguely remembered, a young man named Eric with a
sleepwalking problem, but the title is clear—“I Came Down to Get Some
Underwear.”
Willie Pleasants is an author, poet, and the producer and host of her own cable show "Willie's Web" at Boston Neighborhood Network. Born a southerner, she has lived in Dorchester for over 30 years. Her main goal is to use her books and poetry to inspire and encourage reading among all ages.
Alexandra Sladky is from Augusta, GA. She holds a BA in Latin from
Mount Holyoke College and is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at
UMass Boston. If she could drink with a couple of famous writers she would drink with
Ovid and Catullus, very expensive red wine, paid for
by someone else. She lives in Brighton.
Liam Day is a graduate of Harvard College and the Bread Loaf School of
English. He spent a year playing professional basketball in Ireland,
before returning to the States to begin a career teaching. He is
currently the Director of Youth Development and Health Promotion at the
Boston Public Health Commission and Director of the Boston Area Health
Education Center. His poems have appeared in Slow Trains, Apt, and
U.M.P.h. Prose. His op-eds have appeared in the Boston Globe and Herald,
among numerous other publications. And his essays have appeared in The
Shoestring Traveler, Annalemma, Stymie, and the Good Men Project, to
which he is a regular contributor. He lives in Dorchester, on Jones Hill
to be precise, with his wife Nicole.
