{"id":3699,"date":"2025-07-31T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/?page_id=3699"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:19:46","slug":"the-bay-state-road-reading-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/calendar\/the-bay-state-road-reading-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bay State Road Reading Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay State Road Reading Series was established in 2025 with the goal of bringing accomplished, diverse, and exciting poets to give readings at Boston University. As part of the series, our readers agree to meet for an exclusive, hour-long Q&amp;A with the graduate poetry students enrolled in the Creative Writing Program to answer questions about craft, career, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next reading of the Bay State Road Reading Series will take place on Thursday, 3 December at 7:30PM in room 1750 of the Duan Family Center for Computing and Data Sciences (665 Commonwealth Avenue, 17th floor) and will feature a reading by Claudia Rankine.<\/strong> A catered reception, including a book sale and signing, will follow the event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1545\" height=\"1999\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3910 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2.png 1545w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2026\/08\/BSRRS-Poster-Fall-2026_Rankine_2-464x600.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1545px) 100vw, 1545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2026-2027 season of the Bay State Road Reading Series is made possible with support from the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the CAS Dean&#8217;s Office, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay State Road Reading Series was established in 2025 with the goal of bringing accomplished, diverse, and exciting poets to give readings at Boston University. As part of the series, our readers agree to meet for an exclusive, hour-long Q&amp;A with the graduate poetry students enrolled in the Creative Writing Program to answer questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19860,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3699\/revisions\/3911"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}