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< March 2013 >

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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Join Amherst resident David Toomey in celebrating the publication of his newest book, Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own.   Toomey, who teaches here at the University of Massachusetts, is also author of Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet & The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics.
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Amherst resident Lane Heymont will read from his new book, The Freedman & The Pharaoh's Staff.   Set in the Reconstruction Era, this genre-bending historical fiction fantasy follows two former slaves in a dangerous & gripping time travel adventure battling Hitler & the Ku Klux Klan for possession of an ancient Pharaoh’s staff.   A strong advocate for diversity, Heymont set out to address the lack of minority characters in the fantasy genre by introducing readers to a diverse palette of characters, all torn between encrusted beliefs, self-hatred, fear, & the possibility of freedom & redemption & human dignity.
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Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins will read from recent work.   DuMars is author of two collections of poetry, Big Pink Umbrella & Dreams for Breakfast; as well as a collection of short stories, Lights in the Distance.   Higgins is author of three volumes of poetry: The Boy with No Face, Time Gentleman, Please, & Frightening New Furniture; as well as a collection of essays, Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews.   DuMars & Higgins have run the the acclaimed “Over the Edge” reading series in Galway City, Ireland, since 2003.
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Jennifer Clarvoe will read from recent work.   She is author of two volumes of poetry—Counter-Amores & Invisible Tender, which won the Poets Out Loud Prize & the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.
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Lysley Tenorio will read from his new collection of stories, Monstress, at the University Club, University of Massachusetts, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Manoa, & The Best New American Voices & Pushcart Prize anthologies.
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Clark Coolidge will read at Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Coolidge is author of over 20 volumes of poetry.   His newest books are 88 Sonnets & the immense, long-awaited A Book Beginning What & Ending Away.   Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dal, Jack Kerouac & movies, makes him, in poet Peter Gizzi’s words, “a one-man avant-garde.”

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