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Events

< June 2016 >

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.

Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.   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.   (There will be a repeat of this on Wednesday, June 15th & Monday, June 27th.   Choose your day!)   The July discussion will feature Patrick Modiano’s Honeymoon.  
Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.   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 a repeat discussion.   There also will be one on Monday, June 27th.   Choose your day!)   The July discussion will feature Patrick Modiano’s Honeymoon.  



Leora Fridman, Andrea Lawlor, Kelin Loe & Betsy Wheeler will read from recent work.   Fridman is author of numerous chapbooks & My Fault—chosen by Eileen Myles as winner of the 2015 Cleveland State University Press First Book Poetry Competition.   Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College, edits fiction for Fence, & has been awarded fellowships by Lambda Literary & Radar Labs.   Lawlor’s poems & stories have appeared in jubilat, The Brooklyn Rail, & MiPOesias, among other journals.   Loe’s poems have appeared in jubilat & Epiphany Magazine.   Her publications include These Are the Gloria Stories & The Motorist.   Wheeler founded Pilot Press & is author of Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, Mentor Detours & Start Here.   Her poetry has appeared just about everywhere!
Eileen Myles & Arthur Flowers will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible.  For more information, go here.
Michael Greenebaum will lead a discussion of The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.   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 a repeat discussion.)   The July discussion will feature Patrick Modiano’s Honeymoon.  
Dara Wier & Zachary Schomburg will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible.  For more information, go here.
Noy Holland & Evie Shockley will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go here.
Betsy Wheeler, Chris Dombrowski & Amelia Gray will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible. For more information, go here.
Heather Christle & Mitchell S. Jackson will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible.  For more information, go here.
Matthew Zapruder & Emily Pettit will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible.  For more information, go here.
Paul Lisicky & Joy Williams will read in Auditorium 135, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.   Tickets may be purchased at the door for $5 per evening.  The venue is air-conditioned & wheelchair accessible.  For more information, go here.

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