Comes the Dark Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

Come share winter and darkness-themed poems. This can be your own work or favorite poems by others. Herbal brews and treats will be provided. Held in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room in Ashfield, MA. (Main Street/Rt 116) on Saturday, January 21, from 1:30-3:00pm. Registration requested. Call 413-628-4414 or email bmlashfield@gmail.com. Facilitated by Poet Arianna Read More

March Madness Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

March Madness Poetry Share Wednesday, March 29, 6:30-8pm Hares are getting frisky. Owls are hooting up a storm. Humans are getting stuck in the mud. Meanwhile there is poetry to be shared! Join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. The goblet Read More

One Hot Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

It's so darn hot that even the poetry is sizzling! On 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, Read More

A Spooky Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

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 Read More

Comfort Food Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

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. January'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 Read More

March Madness Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

Why are March Hares mad? To ponder this and other questions about life and Spring, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. This March Madness challenge we toast to our frisky, cabin-fever, crazed, momentary-lapses-of-reason, mad-world poems. (And you don't have any, Read More

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lovin’ Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

"Summer lovin' happened so fast," sang the Firefly. "And so the drama ensues," teased Puck. Come, sit for a spell. Drink the fairies' sweet wine, let the tales spin and tangle, and share poems of dream lovers, night weavers, fantastical moments, and stands for the pursuit of freedom and happiness. And if you don't have Read More

A Transformational Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

Sometimes you battle your demons on the page. But monsters and mayhem can transform with pen and paper or keystroke and screen. You have the power to turn your villains into wise counsel or a hero's dream. Find examples of your poems to read that have turned from woeful to joyful, from fearful to hopeful, Read More

Writers Night Out

Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

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. 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 Read More

Death Becomes Poetry Share

Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

"You think I've been buried? No, I have been planted."Sometimes we all need a place and time to be still, to retreat, to hibernate. Find examples of your poems to read where you have recognized that without death there could be no rebirth, where you forgave yourself for retreating, where you gave yourself time to Read More

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