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Events
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- Monday, February 2nd at 7:00pm (Reading)
Cathy Linh Che &
will read at
The Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst College, as part of the Amherst College Creative Writing Visiting Writer Series. Che is the author of
Becoming Ghost, finalist for the National Book Award;
Split, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, & the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. She is also co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book
An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History. For more information, see
here.
- Monday, February 9th at 7:00pm (Talk)
Melanie D.G. Kaplan will talk about her new book,
Lab Dog: A Beagle & His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research, in conversation with
Susan Howe.
Lab Dog tells the story of Hammy, a beagle she adopted after four years in a research lab. Curious to know more about Hammy’s past, as well as the broader world of animal research, Kaplan—with Hammy in tow—embarks on a quest for answers: How did Hammy end up in a research facility? Why are we still using millions of animals a year in experiments? What have we learned from them? Is there another way? Kaplan is a longtime independent journalist whose travel & science writing has appeared in the
Washington Post, the
Wall Street Journal, &
National Parks magazine.
Howe is President & Founder of the Aisling Center in Belchertown, & has three former research beagles herself.
- Wednesday, February 11th at 7:00pm (Talk)
Local poets
Trace Peterson,
Martha McCollough, &
Ted Pearson will read from recent work. Peterson is a poet, editor, & literary scholar. Her books include
The Valleys Are So Lush;
Steep, winner of the Saturnalia Books Alma Award; &
Since I Moved In. She co-edited the groundbreaking anthology
Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics as well as
Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott. Peterson also edits the small press EOAGH which has won two Lambda Literary Awards & a National Jewish Book Award. McCollough is a poet & the author of
I Woke Up for This, Trash Witch,
Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, & the chapbook
Grandmother Mountain. Her poems have appeared in
Bennington Review ,
Pleiades ,
The Boiler, &
Bear Review, among others. Pearson has published thirty-two books of poetry, including, most recently,
Epistrophy; &
Early Autumn. He also co-authored
The Grand Piano, a ten-volume multi-authored experiment in collective autobiography.
