Join us for a participatory reading from Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems at the Arnold Arboretum (Main Entrance located at 125 Arborway, Boston, MA). Come enjoy the trees and read a poem from Tree Lines; copies of the book and xeroxes of specific poems from it will be available at the reading. Feel free...

Friday, May 5th, 1 to 2 p.m. Five poets whose collections have been published by the Washington, D.C.-based Word Works will read poems that explore the physical and metaphysical presence of birds. Their poems observe and describe different species, with their various behaviors, and consider birds as harbingers, emissaries, and omens, as figures of hope,...

At the Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (one block from the Park Street T station).