Bookworms Gather In Copley Square For The Boston Book Festival

WBZ NewsRadio’s Jay Willett reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Click clack, go the typewriters for this pop up Poetry
ten at the Boston Book Festival. Visitors give authors something
meaningful in their lives to write about. A place, a person,
maybe an injured athlete.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Or Jason Tato.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
He inspires me my views.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, you're like, maybe hoping he's on the fast track
to recovery. No, I wanted to take their time.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Daniel Johnson is executive director of Mass Poetry. Here, they're
having folks write odes to their zip codes. Each number
in your hometown represents the amount of words you have
to write in a line.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
We have some workshops on everything from writing you know,
about grief you know. There's a small press feature with
four great presses from the Boston area.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Authors from all over are gathered here for keynote speeches,
and of course there's plenty of books on sale and
almost everywhere you look at Copley Square. J Willette WBZ,
Boston's news radio