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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Libby Maxey
DESCRIPTION:Libby Maxey\, of Conway\, MA\, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama; she also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice\, and her own poems have appeared in Crannóg\, Kestrel\, Naugatuck River Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Emrys and elsewhere. Her first chapbook\, Kairos\, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Locally\, she has won both the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest and the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest\, and her work was selected for the Northampton Arts Council’s 2017 Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-libby-maxey
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Karen Skolfield
DESCRIPTION:Karen Skolfield’s book Battle Dress (W. W. Norton\, 2019) won the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry\, and she is the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-karen-skolfield
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader: Alexis Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years.  Her undergraduate degree in in languages and linguistics. Her double masters is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Spanish. Before that she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years.  Her first book\,Playing With A Full Deck\, is a wry look at her experiences in 52 short essays. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-alexis-johnson
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Meet-Up - Registration now Open for Nov & Dec 2019
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Critique Meet-Ups – registration now open for Nov and Dec\n\nLoading…
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-meet-up-registration-now-open-for-nov-dec-2019
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:"Mastering Beginnings and Endings in Your Writing" Workshop with Kate Senecal
DESCRIPTION:“Ann Hood once wrote that Beginnings “put into motion the events that will drive the story to its resolution. And the resolution is often the inverse of the opening. ”  \n\nCome join Kate Senecal on Sunday\, November 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts for this writing workshop. She’ll investigate the connection between the beginnings and endings of works of fiction\, discuss how to write opening and closing lines that draw the reader in and leave them satisfied. Kate will look at beginnings and endings with an eye toward finding connections and identifying how the language anchors the story. This class will include writing exercises\, discussion\, and short readings. \nFree and open to the public – No pre-registration. We look forward to seeing you there!  \nKate Senecal received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the Assistant Director of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop\, and a workshop facilitator for Writers for Recovery in Vermont. Her fiction has been published in The Laurel Review\, The Foundling Review\, and in Storychord.com\, where she was the fiction editor for two years.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/november2019
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Mary A Koncel
DESCRIPTION:Mary A. Koncel has published three books of prose poetry – Closer to Day (Quale Press)\, You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press)\, and The Last Blonde (Hedgerow Books). She was a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Denver Review\, Barrow Street\, The Prose Poem: An International Journal\, and No Boundaries:Prose Poems by 25 American Poets. Mary is a staff member with the American Wild Horse Campaign.  She lives in Worthington\, MA with her husband and many animals.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-mary-a-koncel
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Janet MacFayden
DESCRIPTION:Janet MacFadyen is the author of four poetry collections\, including Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017)\, In the Provincelands (Slate Roof 2012)\, and A Newfoundland Journal (Killick Press 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It also has been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50\, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review\, Crannóg\, The Malahat Review\, Osiris\, Poetry\, The Southern Poetry Review\, Sweet\, Terrain\, and elsewhere. In addition to a nine-month fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, she has had residencies at Cill Rialaig in Ireland and the Fowler and C-Scape dune shacks in Provincetown. She is the managing editor of the poetry collaborative\, Slate Roof Press. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-janet-macfayden
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2019
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our annual meeting. This is a time to have the community come together and discuss ways in which Straw Dog can further support the writing community in Western MA. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/annual-meeting-2019
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Dead Writers Dance - Literary Halloween
DESCRIPTION:DEAD WRITERS DANCE – Literary Halloween!\n\nLOTS OF FUN TO BE HAD! \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/dead-writers-dance-literary-halloween
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader D. Dina Friedman
DESCRIPTION:D. Dina Friedman has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and published in many literary journals including Lilith\, Negative Capability\, The Sun\, Common Ground Review\, San Pedro River Review\, Steam Ticket\, New Plains Review\, Blue Stem\, Red Booth Review\, Bloodroot\, Anderbo\, and Rhino. Dina is also the author of two award-winning young adult novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux).  Wolf in the Suitcase is her first book of poetry. Dina moved with her husband to western Massachusetts 38 years ago because it was “a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks.” She currently lives in Hadley\, next door to a farm with 500 cows. She has an MFA from Lesley University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. To learn more about Dina\, visit her website at http://www.ddinafriedman.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-d-dina-friedman
LOCATION:Ashfield Community Hall\, \, 521 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Andrea Hairston
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Hairston is a playwright and novelist. She is author of Will Do Magic For Small Change\, a finalist for the Mythopoeic\, Lambda\, and Tiptree Awards\, a Massachusetts Must Read\, and a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her other novels include: Redwood and Wildfire\, winner of the Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards\, and Mindscape\, winner of the Carl Brandon Award. Lonely Stardust\, a collection of essays and plays\, was published by Aqueduct press. Her play\, Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre\, appears in Geek Theater — 15 Plays by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. “Griots of the Galaxy\,” a short story\, appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future. A novelette\, “Saltwater Railroad\,” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation. Her next novel\, Master of Poisons\, will be published by Tor/Macmillan in 2020. In her spare time\, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She bikes at night year round\, meeting bears\, multi-legged creatures of light and breath\, and the occasional shooting star.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-andrea-hairston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Writers Night Out
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SUMMARY:125th Anniversary - Forbes Library - Reading of local authors
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/125th-anniversary-forbes-library-reading-of-local-authors
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Reading by local authors for Forbes Library 125th anniversary!
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/reading-by-local-authors-for-forbes-library-125th-anniversary
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T103000
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SUMMARY:Good Storytelling in Nonfiction With Suzanne Strempek Shea
DESCRIPTION:At the Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St. Northampton\, MA \nFREE TO ATTEND – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nIt goes without saying (at least for this writer) that nonfiction – about yourself\, someone else\, something else – needs to be the truth\, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But don’t forget that your true story needs also to be one that’s well told. Too often\, stories are thrown onto the page by writers who lean on their subjects for impact and then neglect that the combination of subject and storytelling is key to the best of nonfiction. We’ll look at age-old storytelling elements and what they can bring to your nonfiction\, and we’ll examine successful essays\, stories\, and books\, those featuring great subjects paired with great execution\, and delivered in manners compelling and solid\, as well as unexpected and unusual. \nHandy handouts will be distributed. \nSuzanne Strempek Shea’s eleven books include novels\, memoirs\, and general nonfiction\, the most recent title being “This Is Paradise: An Irish Mother’s Grief\, an African Village’s Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brough Fresh Hope to Both.” Her freelance journalism and fiction has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Boston Globe\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, The Irish Times\, Yankee\, Golf World\, Down East\, The Bark\, Organic Style\, and ESPN the Magazine. Suzanne is a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing. She is writer-in-residence and director of the creative writing program at Bay Path University in Longmeadow\, Mass\, and leads Bay Path’s annual summer writing seminar in Dingle\, Ireland. \nFor additional information\, please visit: http://www.suzannestrempekshea.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/good-storytelling-in-nonfiction-with-suzanne-strempek-shea
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Trish Crapo
DESCRIPTION:Trish Crapo – Poet\, writer\, collage artist\, and photographer Trish Crapo was educated at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Author of the recently republished chapbookWalk through Paradise Backwards from Slate Roof Press (2004 and 2018)\, she has had work featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column\, “American Life in Poetry\,” and in Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women (2002).\n\nShe is a member of Exploded View\, a dynamic group of women poets and artists working together to create original exhibitions and performance. Crapo lives on an organic farm in Leyden\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-trish-crapo
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader James Arthur
DESCRIPTION:Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press\, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The New York Review of Books\, The American Poetry Review\, The New Republic\, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship\, a Hodder Fellowship\, a Stegner Fellowship\, a Discovery/The Nation Prize\, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland\, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College\, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore\, where he teaches at in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-james-arthur
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joan Livingston
DESCRIPTION:Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers. The first two books in her Isabel Long mystery series are Chasing the Case and Redneck’s Revenge (Crooked Cat Books). Checking the Traps has a 2019 release. \nHer other books include The Sweet Spot and Peace\, Love & You Know What. A journalist for over thirty years\, she started as a hilltown reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Most recently she was managing editor of The Taos News. After over a decade in New Mexico\, she returned to rural Western Mass.\, which is the setting for much of her fiction\, including the Isabel Long series. \nFor more\, visit www.joanlivingston.net. Follow her on Twitter @joanlivingston.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-featured-reader-joan-livingston
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190804T140000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Amy Laprade \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared inSilkworm\, 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. “Silence is Premeditated” is forthcoming in 2019. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Christian McEwen
DESCRIPTION:July 7 Writers Read/Hilltowns \nChristian McEwen is a freelance writer\, workshop leader\, and cultural activist\, originally from the UK. She is the author of several books\, including World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down\, now in its sixth printing. Her new book\, Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money\, appeared in April 2019. Get more information at www.christianmcewen.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-christian-mcewen
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190630T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190630T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190514T192819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T160023Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190623T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190623T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190529T142932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190605T125641Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Ritual: A Reading
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/the-poetry-ritual-a-reading
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190615T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190615T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190417T003152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T202458Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion - Summer Goals
DESCRIPTION:Come join a roundtable to discuss your hopes and challenges in writing during the busy summer months. We will converse and share fellow writers’ ways and working routines as well as share ideas on maneuvering through difficult schedules. At the end of the discussion\, participants will be asked to set a writing goal for the summer’s end. In the fall\, a follow-up roundtable will meet to discuss participants’ progress.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-discussion-summer-goals
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190312T164849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190605T125608Z
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SUMMARY:Voices for Resistance - a Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed readers include:\nAndrea Hairston\, Chivas Sandage\, Christopher J. Sparks\, Doug Anderson\, Ilina Singh\, India Smith\, John Sheirer\, Kent Alexander\, Lanette Sweeney\, Maria Luisa Arroyo\,  Marya Zilberberg\, Mary Warren Foulk\, Nicole M. Young\,  Patrick Donnelly\, & Theresa Vincent
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/voices-for-resistance-a-celebration
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190604T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190213T194221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T135753Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190213T204619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T202347Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190526T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190526T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190326T003250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T003250Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190312T222420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T202719Z
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SUMMARY:"To Refract Our Complex Identities: Write an American Ghazal”
DESCRIPTION:  \nPhoto by Joyce Skowyra\nMaría Luisa Arroyo – Born in Manatí\, PR & raised in Springfield\, MA\, María Luisa Arroyo was educated at Colby (BA)\, Tufts (MA) & Harvard (ABD) in German\, her third language. She earned her MFA from the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College. In recognition of her numerous poetry community workshops & readings – many in partnership with the Springfield Public Library – Arroyo was named Poet Laureate (2014-2016) of Springfield and 2016 NEPR Arts & Humanities Award recipient. Her poems appear in many journals such as The Common\, CALYX\, PALABRA\, and CHEST: An American Journal for Chest Physicians. Destierro Means More than Exile is her latest chapbook. Her other collections include her chapbook Flight (Thousand Hands Press\, 2016) and her full-length collection\, Gathering Words: Recogiendo palabras (Bilingual Review/Press\, 2008). Currently\, she is Assistant Professor of Writing & FYS at Bay Path University in Longmeadow\, MA and lives in Springfield\, her hometown.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/to-refract-our-complex-identities-write-an-american-ghazal
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190213T193512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T202746Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072504
CREATED:20190213T203821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T202819Z
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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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