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Events
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. Masks must be worn!
- Saturday, November 13th all day (Gift sale!)
20% sale on gifts. Books & gift certificates excluded.
- Thursday, November 18th at 6:00pm (Poetry reading)
Poet, essayist, raconteur,
Peter Gizzi will read from recent poetry at the
Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst. Gizzi, who teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts here in Amherst, is author of many volumes of poetry, most recently
Now It's Dark. He is the recipient of many honors, including the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, & fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry, The Rex Foundation, Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, & The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This reading is by registration only. For more information go to the
UMass MFA Visiting Writers website.
- Saturday, November 20th at 4:30pm (Book launch party)
Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by local author
Daniel Bullen.
Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion: An American Story recounts the tense months from summer 1786 through winter 1787 when Massachusetts farmers organized nonviolent resistance to flagrantly unjust laws & economic policies. From his headquarters in Pelham, Daniel Shays maintained the peace for five months, closed four courts with thousands of men before being forced into exile in Vermont, shortly before the people won reforms in an electoral landslide. This book removes 'Shay’s Rebellion' from the shadows of American history, & restores the people’s legacy of dignified, nonviolent protest. Bullen is also author of
The Love Lives of the Artists &
The Dangers of Passion: The Transcendental Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Margaret Fuller. Please note: masks are required..