Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Free Hybrid Lecture

Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance.

"The Teaching of Amenemhat" is the only ancient Egyptian literary work to describe the assassination of a king. Told from the perspective of the murdered Pharaoh Amenemhat I, the poem is remarkable for its grim subject matter and popularity in ancient Egypt and Nubia. While previous scholarship on “Amenemhat” has focused on the poem’s composition, Geoga’s lecture will focus on its enduring legacy after 1,000 years in circulation. Margaret Geoga will explore who read "The Teaching of Amenemhat," how they understood it, and how ancient interpretations differ from those of modern Egyptologists.

Free admission. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.

Please join us for our first in a series of free online book club meetings for books by headliners of the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Our first riveting read: Ross Gay’s Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude. Aren’t you grateful for this event?

Meet Ross Gay, one of our wonderful headliners for the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Ross is the award-winning author of four books of poetry – Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude – as well as three esteemed collections of essays – The Book of Delights, Inciting Joy, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights.

Check out Ross’ bio below:
Ross Gay is interested in joy.
Ross Gay wants to understand joy.
Ross Gay is curious about joy.
Ross Gay studies joy.
Something like that.