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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Howard Faerstein
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader – Howie Faerstein \nHoward Faerstein’s first book of poetry\, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn\, was published in 2013 by Press 53. A second collection\, Googootz\, and Other Poems came out in September 2018. His work can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review\, Nimrod\, CutThroat\, Off the Coast\, Rattle\, upstreet\, Mudfish and on-line in Gris-Gris\, Peacock Journal\, and Connotation. \nConsidering himself an “adjunct emeritus\,” he is presently volunteering as a citizenship mentor at the Center for New Americans and is Associate Poetry Editor of CutThroat\, A Journal of theArts. After living in Brooklyn for fifty years\, he now lives in Florence\, Massachusetts. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-howard-faerstein
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous Open Mic/Featured Reader
DESCRIPTION:Dina Stander is a practitioner of radical kinship. Her favorite day jobs have been a school bus driver and hospital chaplain. Her first book of poems ‘Old Bones & True Stories was published in 2018 (Human Error Publishing). She is an end-of-life navigator\, a nondenominational Celebrant\, and maker of burial shrouds. You can read her sporadic blog posts at www.dinastander.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/8204
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Patrick Donnelly
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader Patrick Donnelly  \n \nPATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry\, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books\, 2019)\, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books\, 2017)\, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, andThe Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place\, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts. Donnelly’s awards include the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature\, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7927
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader Dr. Mary Clare Powell taught for 30 years at Lesley University (Cambridge\, MA) in the Creative Arts in Learning program\, a Master’s program for teachers. She has published books on women and the future; the arts\, education\, and social change; and two books of poetry–Things Owls AteandAcademic Scat—and two chapbooks–In the Living Room\,andBox of Water. Everyday Ecstasy is her collection of poems about aging\, which she has found to be rich\, stimulating\, and even fun\, in spite of losses of all kinds.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190526T163000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Tommy Twilite
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376\n\n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n\n\nFeatured Reader –\nTommy Twilite (aka Tom Clark)  is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society.  He is also the host of the “Twilite Poetry Pub” on WXOJ Valley Free Radio\, and the editor of “Silkworm”.  He attended Westfield State College and Umass until he dropped out in the early 1980’s to form a punk rock band.  Tommy is well known in the Western Mass area for his various musical projects and his powerful poetry readings.  He has published several chapbooks and his poetry has appeared in various publications.  Tommy recently retired as a Fire Captain / EMT from the Northampton Fire Department after a 30+ year career of dedicated service.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-tommy-twilite
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Charlie Bondhus
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \nFeatured Reader Charlie Bondhus \n \nCharlie Bondhus is the author of All the Heat We Could Carry\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his Ph.D. in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. He is an associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ).  More at: http://charliebondhus.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-charlie-bondhus
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader – Joshua Michael Stewart has had poems published in the Massachusetts Review\, Louisville Review\, Rattle\, Night Train\, Evansville Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems\, Break Every String\, was published by Hedgerow Books in April 2016. He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. He’s a Teacher/Counselor\, working with individuals with special needs. Visit him at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T143000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Readers Trish Crapo & Janet MacFadyen
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n Trish Crapo grew up in Miami\, Florida and now lives on an organic farm in Leyden\, Massachusetts\, with her husband\, Tom Ashley. They have two grown daughters\, Kate and Liza. Trish is a poet\, arts journalist\, and photographer. She has covered poetry and the arts for the award-winning newspaper\, The Recorder\, reviewed fiction for the Women’s Review of Books\, and has written for other publications including Provincetown Arts and Edible Pioneer Valley. Her 2014 book Dune Shack\, a memoir in text and photos\, chronicles a two-week residency in the wild dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Her Slate Roof chapbook\, Walk Through Paradise Backwards\, was reissued in 2018. \nJanet MacFadyen lives in Shutesbury with her husband\, the photographer Stephen Schmidt. She is the author of five works of poetry\, most recently Adrift in the House of Rocks\, (forthcoming from New Feral Press 2019)\, Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017)\, and In the Provincelands (Slate Roof Press chapbook\, 2012). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It has also been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50\, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review\, Crannóg\, The Malahat Review\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. She has been a writing fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-trish-crapo-janet-macfadyen
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Gail Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader – Gail Thomas  \nPoet and teacher Gail Thomas has published four books: Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back(2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley(2001) andFinding the Bear(1997). \nOdd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press\, and its “Little Mommy Sonnets” won Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/ Margaret Prize for Traditional Verse. Also\, Waving Backwas named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival. \nThomas’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’sNarrative Poetry Prize\, the Edward Hearst Prize\, and the Pat Schneider Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s\, has been taught in college courses. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers\, musicians and storytellers in schools\, nursing homes\, hospitals and libraries across the state. \nThomas teaches\, speaks at conferences and poetry festivals\, and reads her work widely in community and academic settings. www.gailthomaspoet.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-gail-thomas
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n  \nFEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\n .                \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,” 2018\, have been published through Human Error Press. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER \nEvery month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. \nTHE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA  \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us!  \n FEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\nAmy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,” 2018\, have been published through Human Error Press. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader S. Forrest Nomakeo
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShirley Forrest Nomakeo received a B.S. in graphic design from Rivier College in Nashua\, N.H. She is the owner of a golf marketing business\, Western Mass Golf\, promoting golf at expos and via radio\, podcasts\, websites\, and print. She has written for her company’s publication\, Western Mass Golf Magazine\, and writes a daily blog about the process of writing a novel and getting it published. The Summer Palace\, a work of historical fiction\, is her first published novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-s-forrest-nomakeo
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T163000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Christopher J. Sparks
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeatured Reader:  \nChristopher J. Sparks grew up in Northampton\, MA through the 1980s and 90s. He writes poetry\, travel\, and history\, the latter regarding Northampton State Hospital. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-christopher-j-sparks
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured reader Chris O'Carroll
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. \n\nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \n\nFeatured Reader Chris O’Carroll \nIn addition to being a poet\, Chris O’Carroll is a stand-up comedian and a member of Actor’s Equity. \nHis first book\, Take These Rhymes . . . Please: Rude Limericks and Other Crimes Against Literature\, was a self-published volume he sold after the show at comedy clubs.  His second\, was a self-published chapbook\, Shakespeare’s Marijuana and Other Poems the Authorities Don’t Want You to Read.\nThe Joke’s on Me\, was published in January 2018 by White Violet Press\, isn’t exactly his first book\, but it kind of is\, depending on how you define things.\nMany of the journals that have published his poems are identified with so-called New Formalism\, a school of poetry about which he has mixed feelings.\nIn addition to his many print and online magazine appearances\, he has poems in The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and New York City Haiku\, among other collections. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-chris-ocarroll
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured reader: Alice Barrett
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \n\n\n\n\n\nFEATURED READER:\nAlice Barrett’s book of poetry\, The Bridge\, was published in 2018 (Human Error Press). She is house manager for her wife’s theater production company\, Pauline Productions. In the past\, she taught ESL and GED to adults in Holyoke. Her writing also has appeared in the Fourth Estate\, Mindfulness Bell\, Sojourner\, Tricycle\, Sufi Journal\, and other publications. Alice is a member of Back Porch Writers.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-alice-barrett
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T163000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Lauren Marie Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nLauren Marie Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade\, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room\, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene\, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rattle\, Nimrod\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, PANK\, New York Quarterly\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Progressive\, and others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize\, the Neil Postman Prize for Metaphor\, The Janet B. McCabe Prize for Poetry\, and the Bellevue Literary Review’s Vilcek Prize for Poetry. Her fourth collection\, Filthy Labors\, was released 2017 by Northwestern University Press.  Schmidt is currently at work on a Young Adult novel. \nReview of Filthy Labors at The Best American Poetry Blog.\nReview of Filthy Labors at The Empty Mirror.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvous-lauren
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out /Open Mic - Featured Reader: Debra Immergut
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nThe Basement\, 21 Center Street\, Northampton\, MA\nOPEN MIC – 2nd Tuesdays 7-9pm\nHosts Rick Paar & Jacqueline Sheehan \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n Featured Reader – Debra Immergut\nDebra Jo Immergut is the author of The Captives\, a novel published in the US by Ecco/HarperCollins (2018) and in over a dozen other countries. She is also the author of Private Property\, a short-story collection from Random House (1992). She is a MacDowell and Michener fellow and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has worked as a journalist and editor and has taught writing in libraries\, military bases\, and prisons. Her literary work has been published in American Short Fiction\, Narrative\, and the Russian-language journal Foreign Literature. Her journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Boston Globe\, New York magazine\, and other places.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-open-mic-featured-reader-debra-immergut
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20181210T213221Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Michael J. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Michael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \nHere’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-michael-j-ponsor
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181230T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181230T163000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20181210T213927Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous- OPEN MIC
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic-2
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Michael A. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance \nto read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n \nMichael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno_ponsor
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20181114T204820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T212714Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - featured reader Frances W. Henry
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nFrances W. Henry \n\n\n\nFrances W. Henry was born and raised in Sag Harbor\, New York. She graduated from the New School for Social Research and earned an MBA from Harvard University. An executive and founder of nonprofits\, she now devotes herself to the visual and literary arts. She created East Branch Press in 2006\, which has issued three volumes of her essays. Henry’s first book of memoir was published by GP Putnam’s Sons in 1983. She lives in the Hilltowns of western Massachusetts with her husband Walter Korzec.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-frances-w-henry
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T170000
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvousbethf
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Cai Emmons
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \nCai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son and The Stylist and\, most recently\, Weather Woman\, forthcoming in October 2018\, about a meteorologist who discovers she has the power to change the weather. Novelist Caroline Leavitt says of Weather Woman\, “I love this novel so much I want to marry it.” Formerly a playwright and screenwriter\, Cai’s short work has appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly\, Narrative\, and Arts and Culture\, among others. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-cai-emmons
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20180914T181902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180914T182519Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jendi Reiter
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \n \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, 2016)\, the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press\, forthcoming 2018)\, and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree\, 2015). Awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Wag’s Revue Poetry Prize\, the Bayou Magazine Editor’s Prize in Fiction\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. Reiter is the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers. For literary news\, readings\, and reviews\, visit JendiReiter.com and follow @JendiReiter on Twitter.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/wno-jendi
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20180908T183523Z
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SUMMARY:NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole M. Young – Featured Poet\n\nNicole M. Young is a performance poet\, playwright\, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit\, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts\, New York\, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album\, In/Put:  Live from the Valley\, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website  \n \nCandace Curran – Open Mic Host\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T133000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20180802T001125Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ ELMERS - Featured Reader Phyllis Katz
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:45! \n \nPHYLLIS KATZ \nMy two books of poetry\, All Roads Go Where They Will\, 2010 and Migrations\, 2013 were both published by Antrim House Press. My third book\, Finding Ithaca\, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2018. Copies of all thee books are available from the Norwich Bookstore (VT) and at Broadside Bookshop (MA). \nwww.phyllisbeckkatz.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-the-inn-at-norton-hill-featured-reader-phyllis-katz
LOCATION:Elmers\, 396 Main St\,\, Ashfield\, MA\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180904T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T014310
CREATED:20180801T235936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180807T211802Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Emily Arsenault
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. \nTen names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com  \n \n  \nEmily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six mystery and psychological suspense novels\, and one young adult psychological suspense novel\, The Leaf Reader. Titles of her adult novels include: The Broken Teaglass\, a New York Times Notable Crime Book in 2009\, The Evening Spider\, What Strange Creatures\, In Search of Rose Notes \, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Mysteries of 2011\, Miss Me When I’m Gone\, and her latest book\, The Last Thing I Told You\, which released in July 2018 and was one of PureWow’s Best Beach Reads of the summer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Shelburne Falls\, MA.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-emily-arsenault
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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