• Thursday, March 2nd at 7:00pm (Talk)

Ousmane Power-Greene will read from his debut novel, The Confessions of Matthew Strong, as part of Amherst College’s Visiting Writer Series, in the CHI Think Tank (Frost Library, 2nd floor).   Power-Greene is the Program Director of Africana Studies & an Associate Professor of History at Clark University.   He is also author of Against Wind & Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement.   For more information, see the Amherst College Creative Writing Center website.

• Monday, March 6th at 6:30pm (Talk)

Ousmane Power-Greene will read from his debut novel, The Confessions of Matthew Strong, in the Theater, New Africa House, UMass, Amherst.   Power-Greene is the Program Director of Africana Studies & an Associate Professor of History at Clark University.   He is also author of Against Wind & Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement.   For more information, check here.

• Thursday, March 9th at 5:30pm (Talk)

Doctor Keith McCormick will talk about his new book Great Bones: Taking Control of Your Osteoporosis in the Woodbury Room, Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst.   McCormick is an American modern pentathlete & U.S. Army veteran who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as an alternate.   He is a practicing chiropractor who also specializes in sports injuries & osteoporosis.   His previous book, Whole-Body Approach to Osteoporosis: How to Improve Bone Strength & Reduce Your Fracture Risk has been one of our best sellers.

• Tuesday, March 21st at 4:00pm (Reading)

Edie Meidav will read in Shaw Hall, Mount Ida Campus, UMass, 100 Carlson Avenue, Newton from her most recent novel, Another Love Discourse.   Meidav, who teaches in the Creative Writing Program at UMass in Amherst, is author of several novels, including Lola, California & Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon, as well as a short story collection, Kingdom of the Young. For tickets & more information, see here

• Tuesday, March 21st at 7:00pm (Reading)

Alex Chee will read from new work in the CHI Think Tank (Frost Library, 2nd floor) as part of Amherst College’s Visiting Writer Series.   Chee, bestselling author of the novels, Edinburgh & The Queen of the Night, & the essay collection, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, is most recently the editor of The Best American Essays 2022.   He is author of numerous essays & winner of many awards.   For more information, see the Amherst College Creative Writing Center’s website.

• Friday, March 24th at 6:00pm (Poetry reading)

2023 Juniper Literary Festival: Reading   CAConrad & Hoa Nguyen will read in the Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall, UMass, Amherst, as part of the Juniper Literary Festival.   CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry & ritual since 1975. They are the author of 9 books, including AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration, which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award.   They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, & a Lambda Award.   Nguyen is a poet & educator.   Her books include Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 & the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots.   Her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor’s Literary Award, & the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.   For more information & to register go to the Juniper Literary Festival web page.

• Saturday, March 25th at 4:00pm (Reading)

2023 Juniper Literary Festival: Alumni Reading & Conversation   Sadie Dupuis ’14, Shastri Akella ’14, Sueyeun Juliette Lee ’06, & Callum Angus ’17, will read in the Integrative Learning Center ILCN151, UMass, Amherst as part of the Juniper Literary Festival.   Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13.   Her most recently collection of poetry is Cry Perfume.   Akella was a 2022 fiction fellow at The Fine Arts Works Center & a 2023 writing fellow at the Oak Springs Garden Foundation.   His debut novel, The Sea Elephants will be available in July.   Lee is a poet, videographer, & performance artist.   She is author of, among other poetry collections, No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise & Aerial Concave Without Cloud.   Angus is a writer & editor.   His short story collection, A Natural History of Transition was a 2022 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, & an Oregon Book Award.   For more information & to register go to the Juniper Literary Festival web page.

• Saturday, March 25th at 6:30pm (Reading)

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma & Robert Lopez will read in the Integrative Learning Center ILCN151, UMass, Amherst.   Tshuma is the author of House of Stone: A Novel, which won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award & the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction; was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize & the Rathbones Folio Prize.   Her forthcoming novel, Digging Stars will be available in September.   Lopez is author of three novels, Part of the World, Kamby Bolongo Mean River—named one of 25 important books of the decade by HTMLGIANT, All Back Full, & two story collections, Asunder & Good People.   His most recent is Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation & Erasure.   For more information & to register go to the Juniper Literary Festival web page.

• Tuesday, March 28th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Jones Library’s On the Same Page 2023   Xochitl Gonzalez will read from her recent novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, in the Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium, 170 Chestnut Street, Amherst, as part of the Jones Library’s “On the Same Page” series, which includes multiple talks & discussion groups  For more information go to the Jones Library’s “On the Same Page” web page.

• Thursday, March 30th at 4:30pm (Talk)

Philosopher Jason Stanley will talk about “Resisting the Fascist Attack on Public Education” in the Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Building, UMass, Amherst.   Stanley is author of numerous books, including How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us & Them.   For more information go to the Political Economy Research Institute event page.   N.B. Stanley’s books will be available for purchase at Amherst Books before & after the talk, but not at the talk.

• Thursday, March 30th at 7:00pm (Reading)

Victor Yang will read from new work in the CHI Think Tank (Frost Library, 2nd floor) as part of Amherst College’s Visiting Writer Series.   Yang is a queer writer & educator based in Boston.   His writing has been published in such places as Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, The Boston Globe, & The Southern Review.   For more information, see the Amherst College Creative Writing Center’s website.