• Thursday, December 1st at 8:00pm (Poetry reading)

Poet Peter Gizzi will read from his new collection of poetry, Archeophonics in Memorial Hall, UMass, as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Gizzi is author of numerous chapbooks & volumes of poetry, including, most recently, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011.

• Saturday, December 3rd at 11:00am - 12:15pm (Children’s book reading & party)

Much-published Amherst resident Corinne Demas & a new collaborator, her daughter Artemis Roehrig, will read from their new books for children: Does A Fiddler Crab Fiddle? & Are Pirates Polite?   Demas is author of many books for children, including The Littlest Matryoshka, as well as fiction, biography & poetry.   These are Roehrig’s first two books.   Demas & Roehrig will be donoting their profits to the Amherst Survival Center.   There will be a book donation drop-off box for the Survival Center.

• Sunday, December 4th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)

jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Poets Joshua Beckman & Jeffery Yang will read.   Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that follows the reading.     For more information go to the jubilat Event page.

• Tuesday, December 6th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Discussion)

Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of Ben Lerner’s ironic first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station.   Feel free to bring your lunch.   Amherst Books will provide coffee & water.   There is a 10% discount on the book until the end of the month.   All are welcome.   (This discussion will be reprised on Thursday, December 15th.)

• Tuesday, December 6th at 6:00pm(Book launch party)

Help us celebrate new books by Megan Lewis, Harley Erdman, Nieves Romero-Diaz, Priscilla Page, & Judyie Al-Bilali.

• Thursday, December 15th at 12:10pm - 1:00pm (Noontime Book Discussion)

Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of Ben Lerner’s ironic first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station.   Feel free to bring your lunch.   Amherst Books will provide coffee & water.   There is a 10% discount on the book until the end of the month.   All are welcome.   (This is a repeat discussion from Tuesday, December 6th.)