If you’re in Boston this November, do be sure to check out Ben and Annie’s reading at the Liberty Hotel…

ANNIE FREUD’s poetry collections include The Best Man That Ever Was (Picador, 2007) and The Mirabelles (Picador, 2010). She was Guest Editor of Magna Poetry 47 and teaches poetry composition workshops for the Poetry School in London. The Best Man That Ever Was received the Glen Dimplex New Writer’s Award and The Mirabelles has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize (2011). She is the daughter of the Artist Lucien Freud and the Great Grand daughter of Sigmund Freud. Freud is renowned for her live performances.

BEN MAZER’s recent poetry collections are Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press, 2010), January 2008 ( Dark Sky Books, 2010) and, as editor: Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010). He is also the editor of Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved (Graywolf Press, 2006) winner of The Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation. He is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics

This Friday through Sunday, over 80 poets will participate in a weekend-long poetry reading in Boston. Each poet has eight minutes of reading time. The participants range from the up-and-coming to the well established. Such an ambitious and impressive event promises to send thousands of words into the heads of thousands of poetry enthusiasts.

This is one of those events that makes having a private plane seem like an imperative life holding. Strictly for purposes of attending far-off readings, of course…

But if you’re in the area, definitely stop by, for eight minutes or eighty, and enjoy some of Boston’s best poetry voices.

Dark Sky Books author Ben Mazer is scheduled to read on Sunday afternoon. And next week’s featured poet, Elisa Gabbert, takes the stage Friday night.

Check out the rest of the line-up after the jump. And visit the Boston Poet Tea Party for venue information and contacts.

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