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SUMMARY:Comfort Food Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Grab your comfy blanket and join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for a “Comfort Food” Poetry Share on Saturday\, January 20th from 1:30-3pm. \nJanuary’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that are carbohydrate rich\, warming\, uplifting\, full of compassion and understanding\, and/or consoling. (And you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nTea will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room.\n344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414.\nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/comfort-food-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:A Spooky Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. October’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that illustrate what you consider spooky or scary\, from critters to creatures to the state of our world. (And you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room at 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA on Wednesday\, October 25\, 6:30-8:00pm. Wine and chocolate will be served. \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414. \nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/a-spooky-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:One Hot Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:It’s so darn hot that even the poetry is sizzling! \nOn Wednesday\, August 16 from 6:30 – 8:00pm\, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. August’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that illustrate summer\, hot weather\, and passion. Or if you’re feeling too darn hot read a poem that involves ways to cool down. (And if you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nWine and chocolate will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room\, 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414. \nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nBio: Arianna Alexsandra Collins: Naturalist. Writer. Poet. Wild Edibles Enthusiast. Arianna holds a M.S. in Environmental Administration and has over twenty years of experience in teaching\, community engagement\, and public ritual. She is a writer and poet and has a bi-monthly column “Into the Outside” in The Ashfield News. She has featured articles on learning wild edible and medicinal flora in MassWildlife\, Ecological Landscape Alliance\, and Northern Woodlands. You can find examples of her poetry and articles on her blog Hearken to Avalon. She is also the author of the historical fantasy novel Hearken to Avalon. Through her business Offerings for Community Building she offers a variety of services in community engagement activities\, outdoor immersion experiences\, and administrative support.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/one-hot-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share
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SUMMARY:March Madness Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:March Madness Poetry Share\nWednesday\, March 29\, 6:30-8pm\nHares are getting frisky. Owls are hooting up a storm. Humans are getting stuck in the mud. Meanwhile there is poetry to be shared!\nJoin writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. The goblet has been thrown down\, wine spilling across the table cloth\, and we dare you to find and read your racy\, spring-beckoning\, rich & loamy poems. (And you don’t have any\, read someone else’s.) Wine and chocolate will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room. 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA\nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414.\nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/march-madness-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Fall Harvest Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 1\, from 1:30-3:00pm for a Fall Harvest Poetry Share. We will circle up and share autumn-themed poems at Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. This can be your own work or favorite work by others. Weather permitting\, we will be outside under a tent. Refreshments will be provided. (Arianna\, your SDWG admin\, always brings a sampling of her wild-crafted herbal teas.)\nThe Library is located at: 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis is event is co-facilitated by Belding Memorial Library\, Offerings for Community Building\,  and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nTo register for this free program contact Belding Memorial Library:\n413-628-4414 bmlashfield@gmail.com \nThis free program is brought to you with grant funding. American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/fall-harvest-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Share,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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