poetry
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Writers Night Out in August with Phyllis St. George
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday August 4th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Phyllis St. George, 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
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Three Poets: A Reading and Conversation
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Please join Robin Becker, Jan Freeman, and Ellen Miller-Mack for a poetry reading and conversation. We’ll take up a range of themes and approaches—to family life, the natural world, the challenges of intimacy and loss, and living in community with others. A lively Q & A will follow, and we’ll have books to sell and sign. Ellen’s
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Writers Night Out in September with Nina B. Lichtenstein
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 1st, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Nina B. Lichtenstein, 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
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Quite contrary – Contradictions in Poems
How can you inject more 'oomph' into your poems, deepening them with pleasing contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds, images, and themes in the poem taut. In this fun, interactive workshop, we'll look at some poems containing opposing effects or contents, then create new work that dances on both sides
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Voices for Resistance: Poetry, Queer Identity, and Changing the World: A Reading by Jendi Reiter and K.G. Keough-Huff
Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060Join poets Jendi Reiter and Karen (Q) Keough-Huff for an afternoon of poetry and resistance. Jendi will read from their newest book of poetry Introvert Pervert that Denise Duhamel calls, "politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness.” Q will be reading from her newest books of poetry, When I was 8