• Monday, May 2nd at 5:00pm(Poetry reading)

Martín Espada will read from his award-winning collection Floaters, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry & was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst.   Espada, who teaches in the English Department at UMass, has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist & translator.   Registration required!   For more information on the event & registration, see here.

• Saturday, May 21st at 10:30am (Book launch party)

Join Corinne Andrews in belatedly celebrating the publication of her book, Birthing Mama: Your Companion for a Holistic Pregnancy Journey with Week By–Week Reflections, Yoga, Wellness Recipes, Journal Prompts.   Andrews is co–owner/director of Shraddhā Yoga & leads the 200-hour Embodyoga® Teacher Training; is the developer & lead teacher of the Birthing Mama® 90–hour Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga & Wellness Teacher Training, in addition to teaching weekly classes on–line & locally.   She has been teaching yoga to people of all ages & abilities since 2003.   There will be snacks, juice & tea, perhaps some items for sale & a really fun giveaway/raffle.

• Thursday, May 26th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)

Help us in celebrating the publication of a new book by Amherst native Nyanyika Banda — Marvel’s Black Panther: The Official Wakanda Cookbook.   Banda wrote a regular cooking column in the Duluth News Tribune, later starting a pop-up restaurant in Duluth which won the Eater Award in 2018.   She has contributed to Food52, Thrillist, Saveur, & RESY, among others, & teaches Culinary Arts at Holyoke Community College.