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Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, critical essays, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Lily Poetry […]
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Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction, 2008) will kick off the Friends of the New Salem Public Library’s Local Author Series with a reading from Blue Desert. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be hosted in-person and on […]
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Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017), Eliot Cardinaux, and Rebecca Faulkner. Michael W Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of […]
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The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading/workshop of a new play in development, (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius (WSS, June 2015), at the Boston Center for the Arts. (UN)HOUSED tells the story of a single mother, Elianie, and […]
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Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us – both built and natural – and the ways it affects us and […]
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Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted, exhausted, or at a loss as to how to have […]
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Toni Morrison wrote, “It seems to me that the best art is political, and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful simultaneously.” In this seminar, participants will read Morrison’s first novel, The […]
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Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format, white space, word choice, metaphors, structure, rhythm, and more. In […]
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“You Are Ruining My Loneliness is a beautiful lyrical collection that moves with agile intelligence through poems that stand out for their imagery, apt figurative language, and varied poetic forms. In the poem “Night Walk,” where “rain puddles full […]
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Walk around the Pratt House Pollinator Garden and listen to Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006)‘s Flower Talk to learn about flowers and pollinators. Parking available at Essex Library and Town Hall.