• Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00pm (Reading & book launch party)

Ron Welburn, who teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts here in Amherst & is the Director of the Certificate program in Native American Studies, will talk about his new book, Hartford’s Ann Plato & the Native Borders of Identity.

• Tuesday, March 8th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Lawrence Douglas will talk about his new book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk & the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial.   Douglas, who teaches in the Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought program at Amherst College, is author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law & History in the Trials of the Holocaust ; as well as two fine novels & numerous articles & short stories.

• Wednesday, March 9th at 8:00pm (Reading)

Alex Chee, celebrated author of Edinburgh will read from his long-awared new novel, The Queen of the Night.   Co-sponsored by the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.

• Thursday, March 10th at 6:00pm (Poetry reading)

Reginald Dwayne Betts will read in the Airport Lounge, Johnson Library Center, Hampshire College, from his recent collection of poetry, Bastards of the Reagan Era.   Betts is also author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, & Coming of Age in Prison; & Shahid Reads His Own Palm.

• Thursday, March 10th at 8:00pm (Poetry reading)

Poet Jericho Brown will read in Memorial Hall, UMass, Amherst as part of the University of Massachusetts MFA Program’s Visiting Writers Series.   Brown is author of two volumes of poetry, Please & The New Testatment.   He is a winner of the American Book Award & the Whiting Award.

• Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

Poets Dan Chelotti, Adam Clay, & Leslie Yalen will read from recent work.   Chelotti is author x & a new chapbook, Compost.   Clay is author is The Wash, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, & most recently, Stranger.   Yalen has published widely, her first book was The Hearts of Vikings.

• Saturday, March 26th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar will read from their recent poetry.   Byrne is a British poet, translator & editor of The Wolf magazine.   His most recent work is Everything Broken Up Dances.   Parmar, who teaches at the University of Liverpool, is review editor of The Wolf.   Her recent collection of poetry is Eidolon.   They will be introduced by local poet John Hennessy.

• Sunday, March 27th at 3:00pm (Poetry reading)

jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst.   Poets Michelle Gil-Montero & Sawako Nakayasu will read.   Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that follows the reading.     For more information go to the jubilat Event page.

• Monday, March 28th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Join Stellan Vinthagen in celebrating the publication of his new book, A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works.   Vinthagen is a professor of sociology, a scholar-activist, & the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action & Civil Resistance here at the University of Massachusetts where he directs the Resistance Studies Initiative.

• Thursday, March 31st at 8:00pm (Reading)

Physician, essayist, poet, Rafael Campo will read in the Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, from recent work.   Campo is author of Alternative Medicine, a collection of poetry & The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, & Poetry, among other books.   Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.