Bill Corbett Is Taking His Literary Salon To Brooklyn

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May 17, 2012

Poet and art critic Bill Corbett (Courtesy of Nicholas Altenbernd)

For more than 44 years, Bill Corbett has been a linchpin of literary life in Boston. He's a celebrated poet, memoirist and art critic, a professor of writing at MIT and the director of a small press publishing house called Pressed Wafer.

Along with his wife Beverly, he's made his home at 9 Columbus Square in the South End a hub for writers and artists to come together and share food, drink, ideas and conversation.

Now, after more than four decades, Bill is closing his South End salon and leaving Boston for, where else: Brooklyn. But before he goes he's leaving us with a few impressions of his many rich years in this city.

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Bill and his wife Beverly will be speaking about their literary years in Boston Thursday, May 17 at 7 p.m. at Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room.

This segment aired on May 17, 2012.