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Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
Unless noted otherwise all events are free & open to the public.
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- Monday, February 2nd at 8:00 P.M. (Poetry reading)
Slovenian poet
Tomaž Šalamun will read in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts as part of the M.F.A. Program’s Visiting Writers Series. Šalamun has had books translated into most of the European languages. He lives in Ljubljana & occasionally teaches in the USA. He has had ten volumes of poetry published in English including, most recently,
The Book For My Brother &
Woods & Chalices. He has won exuberant praise from many American poets, including James Tate, Robert Creeley, Robert Hass, who celebrates his “love of the poetics of rebellion,” & Jorie Graham, who calls his work “one of Europe's great philosophical wonders.”
- Thursday, February 5th at 4:00 P.M. (Book launch reception)
The Amherst College community will celebrate the publication of Professor Marni Sandweiss’
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love & Deception Across the Color Line in the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College.
Publishers Weekly called it “a remarkable feat of research & reporting that covers the long century from Civil War to Civil Rights...a uniquely American story of self–invention....”
There will be light refreshments at the reception & a brief reading by the author.
- Thursday, February 5th at 8:00 P.M. (Poetry reading)
Craig Arnold will read at from his recent collection of poetry,
Made Flesh, at Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115), Amherst College, as part of the
Amherst College Writing Center's Visiting Writers Series. Arnold is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. His first volume of poetry,
Shells, was a Yale Series of Younger Poets selection chosen by W.S. Merwin.
- Tuesday, February 17th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Group reading sponsored by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council. Readers will be
Noy Holland,
Caroline Klocksiem,
Elizabeth Porto, &
Susie Patlove. Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction,
What Begins With Bird &
The Spectacle of the Body. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers & Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative. In addition to a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, Klocksiem has received a Swarthout Award & a grant from the Arizona Arts & Letters Commission for her writing. She teaches college English & co-edits the online literary magazine
43opus. Porto’s writing has appeared in
Western Humanities Review;
Massachusetts Review;
Willow Springs; &
Southern California Anthology. Her awards and honors include an MCC Artist Fellowship in 2000 & the Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Award. Patlove’s poems have been published in the
Atlanta Review,
Monkscript,
Sanctuary, & other journals; in
Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women; & in
5-Minute Pieces. For more information go to the
Commonwealth Reading Series.
- Thursday, February 19th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Amity Gaige will read from
The Folded World, newly published in paperback. Gaige, who lives in Amherst & teaches at Mt. Holyoke College, is also author of
O My Darling. The
Chicago Tribune, which choose
The Folded World as one of the best books of 2007, wrote that it “ will appeal to readers who like to dive into the muck of internal & interpersonal conflicts, & break the surface with breath born of insight & empathy. Amity Gaige’s second novel lives up to the reputation she earned with her first one, as an original, compelling voice”. It was named ForeWord Book of the Year & best book of fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
- Friday, February 20th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
“Live Lit” Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work. Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction. Tonight’s readers TBA.
- Sunday, February 22nd at 3:00 P.M.(Poetry reading)
“Jubilat/Jones Reading Series” Kimiko Hahn &
Robyn Schiff will read from their recent work as part of the
jubilat/Jones Reading Series in the Trustees Room at the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street in Amherst. Hahn is autor of seven volumes of poetry, including
The Artist’s Daughter;
Mosquito & Ant &, most recently,
The Narrow Road to the Interior.
Schiff is author of
Worth, winner of an award from the Greenwall Fund by the American Academy of Poets, & the recent collection,
Revolver. Co-editor of Canarium Books, her work has been represented in anthologies including
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century &
Transatlantic Verse.
Thursday, February 26th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
CANCELED
Karen Condon will read from her novel
Are You a Survivor? Condon received her MFA in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in 1993. Her stories
have appeared in, among other journals,
The Iowa Review,
Bottomfish Magazine,
Sonora Review,
Kansas Quarterly, &
Fiddlehead, as well as in the anthologies
Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless &
A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors.
- Friday, February 27th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Jedediah Berry will read from his first, long-awaited & whimsically wonderful novel of mystery & fantasy,
The Manual of Detection. In this tightly plotted yet mind–expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella & a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in & through people's dreams. Berry’s short stories have appeared in numerous journals such as
Pindeldyboz,
La Petite Zine, &
Chicago Review; & in anthologies including
Salon Fantastique &
Best New American Voices 2008. He lives in Easthampton, MA, where he serves as assistant editor of Small Beer Press.