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Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
All events are free & open to the public.
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- Friday, April 1st at 8:00 P.M.
“Live Lit” University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Students, Mark Mendoza, Julie Choffel, & Monica Fambrough, read from their recent work.
- Saturday, April 2nd at 2:30 P.M.
Amherst resident
Dede Wilson, author of many books on baking & cooking, like
Bake it to the Limit,
The Wedding Cake Book, &
Appetizers for Dummies, has a new book,
Wedding Cakes You Can Make: Designing, Baking, & Decorating the Perfect Wedding Cake. Rumor has it that she will be demonstrating
some techniques & passing out samples!
See more!
- Sunday, April 3rd at 3:00 P.M.
Gian Lombardo &
Dennis Barone will read. Lombardo is author of
Between Islands, a collection of poems & verse translations, as well as two collections of prose poetry:
Standing Room,
Sky Open Again & most recently,
Of All the Corners to Forget. Lombardo is director of Quale Press. Barone is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry & essays, including
Echoes,
Temple of the Rat, &
Separate Objects: Selected Poems. He teaches English at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford.
- Thursday, April 7th at 8:00 P.M.
Piotr Sommer is one of Poland's most celebrated contemporary poets. In addition, as editor of the world literature journal,
Literatura na Swiecie,
& a prolific translator, he's been instrumental in bringing postwar American, Irish, & English poetry to Poland. Co-sponsored by Amherst College.
- Sunday, April 10th at 3:00 P.M.
“Jubilat/Jones Reading Series” Poets
Maggie Nelson &
Gillian Conoley will read at the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst.
Nelson is author of two collections of poetry,
Shiner &
The Latest Winter, as well as a new work,
Jane: A Murder, a novel in verse, described as 'part elegy, part memoir, part detective story'. Conoley is editor of
Volt.
- Sunday, April 10th at 6:30 P.M.
Old Crow Review Literary Bash Featuring poets
Connolly Ryan &
Janet Aalfs & the music of
José Ayerve. Ryan's poetry has
appeared in many journals, including
Slope. Aalfs has two volumes of poetry,
Reach &
Against the Odds. Ayerve is leader of the indie band
Spouse.
- Tuesday, April 12th at 8:00 P.M.
Catherine Newman, author of
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the
Wild Magic of Growing a Family, will read from her new book. Newman works at Amherst College & is the author of the child-raising journal,
Bringing Up Ben & Birdy on
BabyCenter.com. Her work has been published in numerous magazines & anthologies, including the
New York Times' best-selling
The Bitch in the House. Co-sponsored by Amherst College.
See more!
- Thursday, April 14th at 8:00 P.M.
Poet extraordinaire,
Dara Wier, author of numerous volumes of poetry, including
Hat on a Pond,
Our Master Plan, & most recently,
Reverse Rapture, will read in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts.
See more!
- Friday, April 15th at 8:00 P.M.
“Live Lit” University of Massachusetts M.F.A. students, Bill Peters & Cynthia Roderick will read from their recent work.
- Saturday, April 16th at 8:00 P.M.
Poetry reading by
Robert Fitterman. Fitterman is the author of eight books of poetry, including three installments
of his ongoing poem
Metropolis, the latest of which is
Metropolis XXX: The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.
He is the editor-publisher of
Object literary journal, & with novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he
co-wrote the feature film
What Sebastian Dreamt, which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.
- Monday, April 18th at 8:00 P.M.
Marilyn Krysl has published more than a half-dozen volumes of poetry, including
Soulskin &
Warscape with Lovers;
several volumes of short stories including
How to Accommodate Men &
Mozart, Westmoreland & Me. She is Director
of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, & co-edits the literary journal
Many Mountains Moving.
- Thursday, April 21st at 8:00 P.M.
"Anne Halley Poetry Prize" Sponsored by
Mass Review, the winner of the 1st annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize,
Diane Wald, will read from her prize-winning volume,
Yellow Hotel.
- Friday, April 22nd at 8:00 P.M.
Don Share &
Jacquelyn Pope, will read. Share is the author of a collection of poems,
Union,
& is translator of several books, including
Heart: Selected Poems by Miguel Hernandez. He was Poetry Editor of
The Partisan Review & is now Poetry Editor of
The Harvard Review.
Pope's first book of poems,
Watermark, won the Marsh Hawk Press
Poetry Prize for 2004 & will be published in March, 2005. Her poems appear
in
The New Republic,
Agni,
Gulf Coast, & other journals.
- Saturday, April 23rd at 2:00 P.M.
Humorist & public radio commentator
Chuck Goldstone will talk & read from his new collection of witty, silly &
absurd essays which wisely rub “our noses in the problems we create for ourselves,...reminding us we should know better.”
- Saturday, April 23rd at 4:00 P.M.
Poet
Jorie Graham will read at the First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, across from the Emily Dickinson Museum.
Graham is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory at Harvard University. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including
The Dream of the Unified Field:
Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Materialism;
Region of Unlikeness;
The End of Beauty;
Erosion;
Hybrids of Plants & of Ghosts; & most recently,
Overlord.
The reading is part of the Emily Dickinson Museum's "A Little Madness in the Spring" program. For more information about the program, click
here.
- Wednesday, April 27th at 8:00 P.M.
Sam White &
Andrea Baker will read from their new poetry collections published by Slope Editions. White is author of
The Goddess of the Hunt
is Not Herself. His poems have appeared in such journals as
Ploughshares,
The Paris Review,
Jubilat, &
Verse, among others.
Last year his story about reading poetry aloud to passers-by in Times Square, New York, appeared in
Poets & Writers. Baker is author of the new collection
Like Wind Loves a Window, is author of a chapbook,
Gilda, published by the Poetry Society of America, & is editor of
3rd Bed.
- Thursday, April 28th at 8:00 P.M.
Poet
August Kleinzahler will read from his recent work in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts. Kleinzahler is author of many volumes of poetry, including
Red Sauce, Whiskey &
Snow : Poems,
Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club : Poems: 1975-1990, & a collection of autobiographical essays,
Cutty, One Rock : Low Characters Strange Places, Gently Explained.
- Friday, April 29th at 8:00 P.M.
“Live Lit” University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Students, Sara Veglahn, Jason Schwartz, & Joseph Cardinale, will read from recent work.
- Saturday, April 30th at 8:00 P.M.
Andrew Joron, author of several collections of poetry, including
The Removes &
Fathom, will read.