• Thursday, September 11th 7:00pm (Reading)

Heather Christle will read from her new books, a volume of poetry, Paper Crown, & In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf.   Christle, who got her M.F.A. here at UMass, is author of five volumes of poetry, the second of which The Trees The Trees, won the Believer Book Award for Poetry, & was adapted into a ballet.   Christle is also author of The Crying Book, which has been translated into eight languages & adapted for radio by the BBC.

• Wednesday, September 17th 7:00pm (Reading)

Dorion Elizabeth Knapp & Stephanie Reents will read from recent work at the CHI Think Tank, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst College, as part of the Amherst College Visiting Writers Series.   Knapp is author of three poetry collections, Causa Sui, winner of the Three Mile Harbor Book Award; Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize; & The Spite House, winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize.  She is the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Hood College.   Reents, who went to Amherst College as an undergraduate, is author of the debut novel, We Loved to Run.   She also wrote The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, & I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

• Thursday, September 18th 6:00pm (Reading)

Ariana Reines will read in The Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst, from recent work as part of the MFA for Program for Poets & Writers Visiting writers series.   Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, & translator.   She is author of many plays & volumes of poetry, most recently, The Rose.   For more information see here.

• Friday, September 19th 4:00pm (Book launch party)

Join Amherst College professor Francis (Frank) Couvares in celebrating the publication of a new edition of Interpretations of American History.   Aside from Interpretations, Couvares is author of The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class & Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919 & Movie Censorship & American Culture.   He is a member & president of Da Camera Singers.

• Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

Antonia Palisano & Dan Murphy will read from their award-winning recent volumes of poetry.   Palisano, who went to Hampshire College as an undergraduate, is author of Axiom for when the Stars Go Out, which won the Factory Hollow Press’s Tomaž Šalamun Prize.   Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Pharos, & The Bellevue Literary Review, among other places.   Murphy, whose Estate Sale, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, has published in numerous national & international literary journals.

• Wednesday, September 24th at 4:30pm (Book launch & discussion)

Celebrate the publication of a new book by Amherst College professor Chris Dole, Living On: Psychiatry & the Future of Disaster in Turkey, at the CHI Wednesday Salon at The Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst College.   Dole will be joined in conversation with Elif Babül & Felicity Aulino.

• Thursday, September 25th at 5:00pm (Talk)

Rose Miron will talk about her new book, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History & Memory in the Amherst College Keefe Student Center, Freidmann Room.   Miron is the Vice President of Research & Education at the Newberry Library.   She has been at the Newbery since 2019, serving as the Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies for more than 5 years before stepping into her current role.   For more information see here.   N.B. Attendees must register in advance.

• Thursday, September 25th at 7:00pm (Poetry reading)

Kirun Kapur, Kristin Dykstra, & Mary Gilliland will read from recent volumes of poetry.   Featuring Amherst College creative writing program director, Kirun Kapur, who is author of Women in the Waiting Room & Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist, alongside visiting poets Mary Gilliland, author of Red Tide at Sandy Bend, among other volumes; & Kristin Dykstra, author most recently of Dissonance.

• Monday, September 29th at 4:00pm (Poetry reading)

Cedric de Leon & Eric Blanc will talk about their recent books in The Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst.   De Leon is author of Crisis!: When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule &, more recently, Freedom Train: Black Politics & the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity .   He teaches here at UMass.   Blanc, who teaches at Rutgers, is author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave & Working-Class Politics &, more recently, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor & Winning Big.