Join us at the Burns Library as we celebrate the publication of new poetry books by Boston College faculty. Eric Weiskott (introduced by Allison Adair) will read from Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and Maxim D. Shrayer (introduced by Andrew Sofer) will read from Kinship (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Christian Dupont will moderate the event.

30 April 2024 @ 5 pm in the Burns Library, Fine Print Room at Boston College

Free and open to the public

Reception and book signing to follow

Eric Weiskott is Professor of English at Boston College. He grew up in Greenport, New York, a whaling village on the east end of Long Island. Weiskott is the author most recently of the poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and the scholarly monograph Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). His poems appear in Fence, Texas Review, and Exacting Clam.

Maxim D. Shrayer is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. He was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987. Shrayer is the author of over twenty-five books in English and Russian. He has published four collections of poetry in Russian, most recently Stikhi iz aipada (Poems from the iPad, Tel Aviv, 2022) and two collections in English, Of Politics and Pandemics (2020) and Kinship (2024).

Allison Adair is Professor of English at Boston College and the author of the poetry collection The Clearing.

Andrew Sofer is Professor of English at Boston College and the author of the poetry collection Wave.

Christian Dupont is Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Burns Librarian at Boston College.