• Friday, February 11th at 8:00 P.M.

“Live Lit”  Christopher Harris & Tony Friedhoff of the University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Program will read from their recent work.

• Sunday, February 13th at 3:00 P.M.

“Jubilat/Jones Reading Series”  Verse Press Valentine's Day Extravaganza. Verse Press poets Rob Casper, Peter Gizzi, Aimee Kelley, Travis Nichols, & Lori Shine will read at the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst. Click here for more information.

• Thursday, February 17th at 8:00 P.M.

Claire Messud will read in Memorial Hall at The University of Massachusetts. Messud is author of three books—two novels, The Last Life & When the World was Steady, two novellas published under the title, The Hunters, as well as numerous short stories & articles.

• Thursday, February 17th at 8:00 P.M.

Rachel Hadas, will give a poetry reading at Amherst College in Fayerweather Hall 115. Hadas is author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Laws, Indelible & Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems.

• Friday, February 18th at 8:00 P.M.

“Live Lit”  Students from the University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Program read from their recent work. Tonight is a First Year Extravaganza.

• Saturday, February 19th at 8:00 P.M.

Ted Greenwald, author of numerous volumes of poetry will read from his most recent volume, Up and Up.

• Tuesday, February 22nd at 8:00 P.M.

Luis Urrea, author of many books, including the award-winning Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction, Across the Wire, The Fever of Being & most recently, The Devil's Highway: A True Story. Co-sponsored by Amherst College. See pictures of the event.

• Thursday, February 24th at 4:30 P.M.

Russian Poet Katia Kapovich will read from her recent volume of poetry, Gogol in Rome, in Webster Hall at Amherst College.

• Friday, February 25th at 8:00 P.M.

Noah Eli Gordon & Dorothea Lasky will give a poetry reading. Gordon is author of two volumes of poetry: The Frequencies, & most recently, The Area of Sound Called the Subtone. Lasky's poems have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Phoebe, Lungfull!, & Castagraf & are forthcoming in 6X6 & The Boston Review. Two chapbooks, Alphabets and Portraits & Hatmaker's Wife are forthcoming.

• Saturday, February 26th at 2:00 P.M.

Party & talk. Chris Couch & Stephen Weiner, authors of The Will Eisner Companion & Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel, will talk about their books & the graphic art of the late Will Eisner.  They will be joined by the legendary founder of Kitchen Sink Press, Denis Kitchen.

• Sunday, February 27th at 4:00 P.M.

Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, is author of Resource Wars : The New Landscape of Global Conflict, & Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum, will talk to the Episcopal Peace Fellowship at the Grace Episcopal Church parish hall in Amherst. Everyone is welcome.