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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in June
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Cardillo at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nLinda Cardillo is an award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance. She writes about the old country and the new\, the tangle and embrace of family\, and finding courage in the midst of loss. \n\nHer debut novel\, Dancing on Sunday Afternoons\, which launched Harlequin’s Everlasting Love series\, was published in 2007. She has published a total of fourteen books and is currently writing her fifteenth\, entitled Paint the Wind\, which will be available this coming summer.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-4
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Astrid Lindstrom Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nAstrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher\, who advised middle and high school literary magazines\, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury\, Vermont\, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens\, and loved writing with all her students. \nShe plays violin in the Five College Early Music program in western Massachusetts\, contra dances\, works with comfort dog Jonah in the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital\, and has also volunteered with Jonah as reading buddies in an elementary school. \nShe grew up in Gambier\, Ohio\, where her parents were a mathematics professor and a librarian at Kenyon College\, and has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia. \nShe and her wife Cece\, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage\, lived in Northampton\, where Astrid still resides. They have four adult children and four grandchildren.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-4
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in April
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday April 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chris O’Carroll at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nChris O’Carroll is the author of three poetry collections\, The Joke’s on Me\, Abracadabratude\, and the newly published Quantum Creed\, which opens with a selection of his hell-yes-I-can-be-funny-about-having-cancer poems and just gets friskier from there. Chris has been a Light magazine featured poet\, and his work appears in New York City Haiku\, Extreme Sonnets\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-april-2
LOCATION:01060
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in March
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday March 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nChaya Grossberg is a life-long poet\, non-fiction writer and advocate for those harmed by psychiatry. She has been writing and sharing poetry for 3 decades\, participating and hosting open mics from coast to coast\, NYC to San Francisco\, Portland\, OR\, Olympia WA\, and here in the Valley. She is passionate about poetry and spoken word opening space for expression especially for those who have been silenced by psychiatry. Her popular book Freedom from Psychiatric Drugs has great reviews is available on Amazon. Her poetry book\, “Reborn: Poetic Codes for Psychiatric Survivors” is a convergence of her passions for poetry and freedom from psychiatry. She recently finished the first draft of her first novel\, Clarissa’s Hot Sauce\, which also touches on these themes. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-march-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in February
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday February 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jendi Reiter at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nOrigin Story by Jendi Reiter\nJendi Reiter is the author of Two Natures (winner of the Rainbow Award for Best Contemporary Gay Fiction); An Incomplete List of My Wishes; and five poetry collections. Their writing has won awards from the Iowa Review\, New Letters\, Solstice Lit Mag\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, among others.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-february-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to 2025! Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday January 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ed Orzechowski at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \n \nEd Orzechowski’s current release\, Becoming Darlene\, follows the publication in 2016 of You’ll Like It Here\, The Story of Donald Vitkus—Belchertown Patient #3394\, which became an all-time best-seller for Levellers Press of Amherst\, Massachusetts. \nStraw Dog Writers co-founder Jacqueline Sheehan\, PhD\, says: Ed Orzechowski’s masterful rendering reveals the unspeakable conditions of institutional life for children in mid-twentieth-century America. He writes with searing honesty about the survival of a remarkable girl who creates her own inner resources to emerge with her dreams intact. \nAuthor Joy Baglio\, Founder and Director of the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, writes\, Ed Orzechowski’s account of Darlene’s story is raw and unflinching in its honesty and forthrightness. He paints a detailed\, gritty picture of a tragic childhood and the horrors of a system that abused so many. This is a difficult story\, a sad story\, yet not without hope. Becoming Darlene illuminates aspects of our own humanity\, both the shadows and the strength to persevere.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-15
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday December 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Deborah Gorlin at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDeborah Gorlin is the author of three books of poems\, BODILY COURSE\, White Pine Poetry Press Prize\, 1997; LIFE OF THE GARMENT\, winner of the 2014 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize; and OPEN FIRE\, Bauhan\, 2023. Her work has appeared in a wide range of journals including Poetry; American Poetry Review; Bomb\, Best Spiritual Writing 2000\, Plume; On the Seawall; the Ekphrastic Review; Mass Poetry: the Hard Work of Hope; The Common; and Yetzirah. Her lyric essay\, “Jack of All Trades\,” was published as a finalist in Calyx magazine’s 2022 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. Emerita co-director of the Writing Program at Hampshire College\, she served for many years as a poetry editor at The Massachusetts Review. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-14
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday November 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Steve Bernstein at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nMost authors don’t have a master plumbers license and a master’s degree. Steve Bernstein has both. As a kid\, he survived the turbulent Bronx streets of the 1960’s and chaos at home. Since his early twenties\, Steve has been a mentor\, teacher\, and advocate for teens in trouble. Steve is also a humane educator and animal rights activist who shares his home in Western Massachusetts with Little Bear\, his canine companion.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-13
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDean Cycon is an author\, lawyer\, human rights advocate and internationally renowned social entrepreneur who has lived and worked in over sixty countries. Cycon is a passionate explorer of culture and history\, seeking out unexamined corners that illuminate the human condition. His narrative non-fiction\, Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Chelsea Green\, 2008) was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Travel Essay by the Independent Publishers Association and has been translated into Chinese\, Korean and Spanish. FINDING HOME (Hungary\, 1945) is his first novel.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-12
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Linda Bratcher Wlodyka at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nLinda Bratcher Wlodyka is the current Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023\, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount\, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox\, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem\, “Secret Cottage\,”was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012 and she was invited to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield\, MA to read that poem. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published\, Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems\, is Linda’s first full length poetry collection released in late 2023. Her poems have been widely anthologized. She is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and has recently been involved in reading and choosing poems for publication in the anthologies\, Silkworm and Naugatuck River Review.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-10
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday July 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Cherryl Jensen at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. She lives in Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-9
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday June 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Jessica Jopp at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nJessica Jopp holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her novel\, From the Longing Orchard\, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press\, an award given annually to a work of prose by a queer writer. Also a poet\, Jopp has published in numerous journals\, among them Poetry and The Progressive. Her poetry collection\, The History of a Voice\, was awarded the Baxter Hathaway Prize in Poetry\, and it was published by Headmistress Press. Jopp teaches at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-8
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Doug Anderson at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDoug Anderson has published four books of poetry. The Moon Reflected Fire won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He has been awarded grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and has received two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent books are Horse Medicine from Barrow Street\, and Undress\, She Said from Four Way Books. His fifth book\, The Wind Made a Harp of the Pines\, is forthcoming from Nine Mile. His poems have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Massachusetts Review\, Field\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, and many other literary magazines. He has written plays and fiction and published numerous critical pieces in the New York Times Book Review\, the Boston Globe\, and the London Times Literary Supplement. He is a photographer and teacher and lives in Ashfield\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday April 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Diana Whitney at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nDiana Whitney writes across genres with a focus on feminism\, motherhood\, and sexuality. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves (2021)\, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award. Her essays\, poetry\, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times\, Glamour\, the Kenyon Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and elsewhere. She has received numerous grants for her writing\, including from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council. Her first book\, Wanting It\, won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. A feminist activist in her hometown and beyond\, Diana lives in Vermont with her family and works as an editor and writing coach.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-7
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday March 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Chaya Grossberg at Forbes Library.\nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.\nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.\nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.\nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nChaya Grossberg is a life-long poet\, non-fiction writer and an advocate for those harmed by psychiatry. She has been writing and sharing poetry for three decades\, participating and hosting open mics from coast to coast\, NYC to San Francisco\, Portland\, OR\, Olympia WA\, and here in the Valley. She is passionate about poetry and spoken word\, opening space for expression for those who have been silenced by psychiatry. Her popular book Freedom From Psychiatric Drugs has great reviews on Amazon. She recently published a poetry book\, “Reborn: Poetic Codes for Psychiatric Survivors”.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-6
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in February
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday February 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Alexis Johnson at Forbes Library. In addition to reading from Playing With A Full Deck\, she’ll also read from her new books Dancing with Words and I Wanted to Write a Book but Forgot What I Wanted to Say. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nAlexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years. Before that\, she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years. Playing With A Full Deck is a wry look at her experiences. Her two new books are Dancing with Words and I Wanted to Write a Book but Forgot What I Wanted to Say.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-february-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T181436
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in January
DESCRIPTION:WNO CANCELLED! Due to inclement weather SDWG is cancelling Writers Night Out for this evening. Stay home. Stay safe.\nWe will reschedule Cherryl Jensen for another month. \nCherryl Jensen grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa\, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern U.S. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2022. Her mentor was Sue William Silverman. Cherryl’s writing has appeared in Past Ten\, Persimmon Tree\, Concrete Wolf\, Northern New England Review\, Psychiatric Services\, and more. She lives in Easthampton\, Massachusetts. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-january
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T181436
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in December
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 5\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Carolyn A. Cushing at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio: Carolyn A. Cushing is a lyric poet inspired by nature and currently focused on the places where life and death meet. Her poems have been published in local\, regional\, and national poetry journals. She seeks out ways to collaborate with fellow writers and artists as well as share poetry in dynamic formats\, resulting in projects such as the Poetry Oracle (2020) and Chapbook in the Street (2022). Carolyn is a recipient of grants from the Easthampton Cultural Council and Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and was a finalist for the Philbrick Poetry Award of the Providence Athenaeum (2012) and the Tarantula Poetry Contest of Pilgrimage Journal (2018). She is the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate of Easthampton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-december-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in November
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 7\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Richard Michelson at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio:RICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books\, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press)\, Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois)\, Tap Dancing for the Relatives (U of Central Florida)\, and two fine-press collaborations\, Masks\, and Semblant with the artist Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press. Michelson’s children’s books have been named among the 10 Best of the Year by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and The New Yorker\, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com  Michelson has received a National Jewish Book Award\, two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. His work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the  Library of Congress National Book Festival.  Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-november-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 3\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joan Livingston at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement. \nBio: Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers\, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series\, which will have the seventh\, Missing the Deadline\, released by darkstroke books later this year. Her most recent release is Northern Comfort\, set like most of her books\, including The Sacred Dog and Northern Comfort\, in the fictional hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. She is currently writing a sequel to The Sacred Dog called the Unforgiving Town. She relies on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts\, where she lives and once covered as a long-time journalist\, to create realistic characters and settings.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T180000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in August
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 1\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer D.K. McCutchen at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement \nBio: D.K. McCutchen lives on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi. Publications include LGBTQIA-friendly gender-bender-post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction\, JELLYFISH DREAMING (JFD)\, winner of the 2022 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize with publication in the US & UK. WHALE ROAD\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book & Pushcart nominee about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific\, also has an update forthcoming with JackLeg Press Oct. 16\, 2023. She’s published short work in Fourth Genre\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Rosebud\, Identity Theory\, LCRW and others\, and is currently working on JFD’s companion novel ICE\, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-august-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230711T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in July
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 11\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer  Anne Pinkerton at Forbes Library. NOTE the date change due to the July 4 holiday. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nSponsored by Valley Home Improvement \nBio: Anne Pinkerton studied poetry at Hampshire College and received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University. Her writing often focuses on making sense of challenging life experiences; significant themes include loss\, illness\, grief\, and coping. She has been published in Modern Loss\, Hippocampus Magazine\, The Bark\, the anthology The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink\, and elsewhere. Pinkerton lives in western Massachusetts where she works as a marketing communications professional.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-july
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in June
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 6\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Shanta Lee Gander at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nBio: Shanta Lee is also the author of the poetry collection\, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues\, winner of the 2020 Diode Press full-length book prize and the 2021 Vermont Book Award. Black Metamorphoses\, 2023\, has been named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson prize\, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho poetry prize. Shanta Lee is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors. Her work within the humanities includes Shanta Lee giving lectures on the life of Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821) — considered the first known African-American poet in English literature — as a member of the Vermont and New Hampshire Humanities Council Speakers Bureaus. Shanta Lee also serves on the advisory for Jay Craven’s film\, Lost Nation which prominently features the life of Lucy Terry Prince. She is also a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Her contributing work on several investigative journalism pieces for The Commons received a number of New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) awards. Shanta Lee teaches poetry at Wilkes University and media studies at The Putney School. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, an MBA from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree in Women\, Gender and Sexuality from Trinity College.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-june-3
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in May
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 2\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Simon Hunt  at Forbes Library. \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nBio: Simon Hunt lives in Ashburnham\, Massachusetts\, after having lived in Monterey\, California\, for 20 years and Las Vegas\, Nevada\, for three years. He has been a teacher for more than three decades\, predominantly in California and predominantly at the high school level. Simon’s poems have been published widely in print and online journals. 2018 saw the publication of his first collection of poems\, Lesser Magi\, and in 2019 his first play\, “Re-run\,” was performed. Simon was born in what is now Zimbabwe and also lived in South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the USA during his childhood. The father of two\, he served the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel\, California\, as a volunteer tour docent and trustee for over a decade. A second collection of his poems\, Endlings\, is scheduled for publication in 2023.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-may-2
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out April
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, April 4\, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Stewart at our NEW HOME: Forbes Library.* \nNo registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read\, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nHosted by Jacqueline Sheehan\, Rick Paar and Beth Filson. \nBio: Joshua Michael Stewart is the author of three poetry collections: Break Every String\, The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums\, and Love Something. His poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review\, Salamander\, Plainsongs\, Brilliant Corners\, South Dakota Review\, Permafrost\, and many others. He lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. www.joshuamichaelstewart.com \n*Straw Dog Writers Guild is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Forbes Library. Beginning in April\, Forbes Library became the official home of Writers Night Out\, meeting upstairs in the Coolidge Room. On the first Tuesday of every month\, we will offer the same opportunity for writers to share five minutes of their work during Open Mic\, followed by a presentation by a recently published Featured Reader. We needed to alter our meeting time to coincide with the Forbes Library. We will begin at 6 and end at 8PM. \nForbes Library is truly a supportive partner for writers. Many of us have made use of their resources for research and pleasure\, found a quiet nook to write in\, or joined with the Writing Room on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Now we can add Writers Night Out to the generous support of our beloved community library. Thank you\, Forbes!”
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-april
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out March
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 7\, 7-9pm at Forbes Library for Writers Night Out with featured writer and poet Gail Thomas. \nNOTE: WNO has moved to Forbes Library at 20 West St\, Northampton\, MA for this March event. Parking is available at the library. \nNo registration required. \nBio: Gail Thomas has published six books\, most recently Trail of Roots and Leaving Paradise. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Among her awards are the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press\, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review\, the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read”\, the Quartet Journal’s Editor’s Choice Prize\, and Seven Kitchen Press’s chapbook award. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross\, and several poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry with Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops\, visits schools and libraries with her therapy dog\, and works with immigrant and refugee communities in Western Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-march
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260416T181436
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out January
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, January 3\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Rick Paar. \nBig Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. \nMasks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Rick Paar is the author of God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go. He is also a psychologist who chaired the Department of Psychology at Springfield College where he taught courses in counseling and psychotherapy. He served on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. His stories have been published in Meat for Tea\, Blue Nib\, Aethelon\, Voices\, Psychotherapy Patient\, and The International Journal of Play among others. He has been a columnist for three newspapers/journals and is on the board of Straw Dogs Writers Guild. His academic writing has appeared in a variety of journals with topics ranging from the metaphysical\, to play and creativity. He is currently working on his next book.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-january
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out December
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 6\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Michael Favala Goldman. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Michael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is an award-winning poet and translator of Danish literature. His work has appeared in scores of publications including The New Yorker\, Rattle\, and The Harvard Review. Michael’s translation of Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen made the New York Times Best 10 Books of 2021 as book three of The Copenhagen Trilogy. His poetry collection\, Small Sovereign\, won first place in the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. This May Sound Familiar is his fifth poetry collection. He lives in Northampton\, MA\, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018. https://michaelfavalagoldman.com/
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-december
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out November
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 1\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Ellen Meeropol. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest\, the play Gridlock\, and is guest editor for the new anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Recent essay publications include Ms. Magazine\, Lilith\, The Writer Magazine\, Guernica\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize\, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association. Ellen is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-november
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out in October
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 4\, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Janet E. Aalfs. Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee. Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution. \nBio: Janet E. Aalfs’ 3rd full-length collection of poems\, What the Dead Want Me to Know\, appeared in April 2022 (Human Error Publishing). She is the author of several chapbooks\, and her writing is widely published in journals\, anthologies\, and online sites. Janet enjoys sharing movement/poetry pieces she calls Poemotion©.  A 7th degree black belt\, master Taiji/Qigong instructor\, founder of Lotus Peace Arts at Heron’s Bridge/VWMA\, and former poet laureate\, she has been offering integrative arts education locally\, nationally\, and internationally since 1977.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-october-2
LOCATION:Big Bear Used Books & Cafe\, Keystone Building\, 122 Pleasant Street\, Easthampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Open Mic,Straw Dog Event,Writers Night Out
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