July 25: Pioneering Poets of Cambridge Guided Tour

Saturday, July 25, 2026
10-11:30 am
Registration required
Limited space available
Weather date: Sunday, July 26 at 10 am

About the tour

Join authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta (Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators) on a 90-minute tour west from Harvard Square, exploring some of the well-known poets and authors who have been part of Cambridge’s “literary-industrial complex.” The tour will begin and end at the former Out of Town News kiosk in Harvard Square. 

Learn about the first printing press in English America; poet Anne Bradstreet, one of Cambridge’s first colonial-era residents; slave narrative author Harriet Jacobs; and 20th century poets Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Adrienne Rich and May Sarton. And learn why Cambridge poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became one of the most famous Americans in the 19th century.

Note: This is a popular tour and is likely to sell out!