• Wednesday, September 16th at 7:30 P.M. (Poetry reading)

Poets Joan Larkin & Honor Moore will read in Converse Hall at Amherst College to celebrate the publication of Poems from the Women’s Movement, edited by Honor Moore.   The anthology presents 58 poets whose work defines an era, among them Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, May Swenson, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Ann Waldman, Sharon Olds, Diane Di Prima, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, Alice Notley, & Eileen Myles.   Several students from the Five Colleges will join them in reading other poems from the anthology.

• Thursday, September 17th at 8:00 P.M. (Poetry reading)

Richard Wilbur will read in Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, at Amherst College.   Wilbur a former Poet Laureate, is winner of the National Book Award & two Pulitzer Prizes.   He is a translator of Moliére; a number of children's books including Opposites, More Opposites, & amp; a Few Differences; & many volumes of poetry, includingCollectged Poems & New & Collected Poems.

• Wednesday, September 23rd at 5:00 P.M. (Book launch party)

Celebrate the publication Robert Feldman's new book, The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships.   Feldman, who teaches in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts, is the recipient of the College Outstanding Teacher Award & was a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Education Fellow.   He is author of Understanding Psychology & P. O. W. E. R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College & Life.   His new book, The Liar in Your Life, describes how we lie two to three times in a ten-minute conversation.   From the 'white lies' of social niceties ('It's so nice to see you') to lies told with intent ('I promise to give you 20 per cent of the total funds transferred to your vital bank account'), deception & dishonesty play a huge—and crucial—role in our society at every level, from the school yard ('I didn't do it!') to the halls of government ('Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes').   You'll discover the truth about lying—why we all do it, what it costs us, how children learn to lie, who it benefits, why we're so often ready to accept the lies we're told, & how it can both succeed in helping us & fail with catastrophic results.

• Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 P.M. (Poetry reading)

Poet Dara Wier will read from her new Selected Poems in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts.   Wier teaches poetry in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts & co-directs the Juniper Intiative for Literary Arts & Action.   She is author of many volumes of poetry, including Hat on a Pond, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, & Voyages in English.   She is the recepient of literary awards including the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize & the Pushcart Prize, & has also received fellowships & grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, & the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

• Tuesday, September 29th at 8:00 P.M. (Reading)

Sigrid Nunez, will read from recent work.   Nunez has published five novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, & The Last of Her Kind.   Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes & four anthologies of Asian-American literature.   A Feather on the Breath of God was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award.   It also received the Association for Asian American Studies Award for best novel of the year.   Mitz, a mock biography of Virginia & Leonard Woolf’s pet monkey, won the Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.   Sigrid Nunez has also been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, & a residency from the Lannan Foundation.   Sponsored by Amherst College Creative Writing center.

• Wednesday, September 30th at 5:30 P.M. (Book launch party)

Help us celebrate the publication of a new book Elizabeth ("Betsy") Krause.   Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern, exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century.   Krause combines novelistic & ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe & the United States, & manifested themselves, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate.   Krause, who teaches in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts, has published in many journals, including The Nation, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, & Journal of Modern Italian Studies; & is the author of A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy.   Music provided by Jazz Sketches, with Doug MacMillan & Chris Brashear.