Boston Book Festival

Allison Adair’s recent poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2015, Boston Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), Shenandoah, and Southwest Review, among other journals. Winner of the Fall 2015 Orlando Prize and the 2014 Fineline Competition, Adair is on the faculty at Boston College and has taught poetry workshops at GrubStreet since 2002.

Howard dePass Jr. is a spoken word poet and part of the art collective Caretakers of Humanity. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, he came to Boston for college and graduated from Boston University in the spring of 2014. Writing spoken word poetry for roughly four years now, Howard's work touches on spirituality, racial injustice, economic/social disparities, and love.