Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Fanny Howe and Haleh Liza Gafori

The Blacksmith House Poetry Series at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education has been bringing established and emerging poets to Harvard Square since its founding by Gail Mazur in 1973. The series is named after the Blacksmith House at 56 Brattle Street, site of the village smithy and the spreading chestnut tree of Longfellow’s 1839 poem “The Village Blacksmith.” On the evening of May 5, 2025, series director Andrea Cohen introduced Fanny Howe, author of Night Philosophy and a reader from the first Blacksmith House reading in 1973, and also Haleh Liza Gafori, whose most recent translation of Rumi is Water. This is the last poetry reading of the spring 2025 season. Click here: to listen.