BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Straw Dog Writers Guild - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://strawdogwriters.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Straw Dog Writers Guild REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210313T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210313T123000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20210204T195220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T195220Z UID:10000501-1615631400-1615638600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Jump-Start a Story: A Sisters in Crime Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Surrealists used to pool their money and buy a one-way ticket to the furthest destination they could afford. They’d send one person off on an adventure and they’d have to make their way back somehow\, and tell the others all about it when they returned. Along the way\, they’d collect talismans that helped them navigate the dark places they encountered. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll be sending each of you off on an adventure and when you get back\, you’ll have the outline of a short story. We’ll begin by randomly selecting your destination. You’ll choose a souvenir and explore its significance to your character. Then we’ll do a brief tarot card reading to guide you along your way from the opening conflict to the resolution of your story. \nHere’s how it works: \n\nIntroduction to the exercise\nA screen share at the beginning for all participants that will allow them to select from among various situations (as depicted in movie stills)\, locations\, and souvenir objects.\nTen minutes of free writing in response to the question: who are you\, where are you\, and what does the object you brought back mean to you?\nSending participants into one of three breakout rooms\, each hosted by one of of the workshop leaders\, where they will get a short tarot card reading to give them the essential aspects of their story arc.\nReconvening as a group to share results.\n\nSpaces are limited to 21 participants. Registration is required. To register email strawdogreg@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation reply with a Zoom link. \nPresenter bios: \nLisa Lieberman writes the Cara Walden series of historical mysteries based on old movies and featuring blacklisted Hollywood people on the lam in dangerous international locales. She is President of the New England chapter of Sisters in Crime. \nCarolyn Marie Wilkins is an author\, a musician and a psychic medium. She is the author of\nthree mystery novels: Death at a Séance\, Melody for Murder and Mojo for Murder.\nTo find out more about Carolyn: www.carolynwilkins.com \nSharon Healy Yang is passionate about mysteries from the golden age\, whether in a book or on the screen. Her series of Jessica Minton Mysteries include Bait and Switch and Letter from a Dead Man. The third entry\, Always Play the Dark Horse\, is forthcoming in 2021 URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/jump-start-a-story-a-sisters-in-crime-workshop LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Workshops ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210307T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20210212T163645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T163513Z UID:10000503-1615125600-1615132800@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Read Hilltowns March 2021 DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Read / Hilltowns! On Sunday\, March 7th from 2-4pm our featured reader is Stephanie Shafran. To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com for a link to the meeting. You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nBio: Stephanie Shafran lives in Western MA. Her poetry and prose have appeared in anthologies such as Straw Dog’s Compass Roads and Ophelia’s Mom\, edited by Nina Shandler. And in journals such as Earth’s Daughters\, Whirlwind Review\, Slant and Silkworm. Her poem Pears received an honorable mention in Writers’ Digest’s 2001 non-rhyming poetry competition. Last year\, Stephanie’s poem After “Since Unfinished” by Richard Blanco won 3rd place in the Robert P. Collén Poetry Competition; recently she was a semi-finalist in River Styx’s Microfiction Contest. Stephanie published a chapbook entitled Awakening this spring. URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-march-2021 LOCATION:zoom ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20210209T205604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T210012Z UID:10000502-1614711600-1614718800@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Night Out/In March 2021 DESCRIPTION:Join us for Writers Night In Open Mic! March’s featured reader is Sally Bellerose. \nTo Register\, email wno@strawdogwriters.org to request the Zoom link. Include your first and last name and zip code. \nBio: In her writing\, Sally Bellerose (she/her) loves to mess with rhythm\, rhyme\, and awkward emotion.\nBellerose writes about caste\, sex\, illness\, absurdity\, and lately\, growing old. Her novel\nFishwives with Bywater Books comes out this month!  This novel features old women behaving badly. Fishwives is also available on Amazon.\nHer novel The Girls Club won many awards including an NEA Fellowship. Her poetry is featured in Lady Business\, Sibling Rivalry Press. URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-in-march-2021 LOCATION:zoom ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20200113T200102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T133738Z UID:10000443-1583071200-1583078400@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader Faith Kindness 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.\n\n\nLong-time resident of Western Massachusetts\, Faith Dickhaut Kindness is a visual artist\, teacher\, former librarian\, and writer whose memoir in poetry is entitled The Art of Waiting. \n“In the late 60s during the Vietnam War\,” she writes\, “I was a young wife on Okinawa. The subject matter of The Art of Waiting is based on two years in her twenties when life took a direction she hadn’t previously encountered and she simultaneously faced two unknown mindsets – that of the military and that of living in a foreign culture. \nWhen we first arrived back in the U.S. people weren’t ready to hear the stories I was bursting to tell. Writing this book became a cathartic journey that has “released my psyche to heal.” The book is organized in roughly chronological sections with headings like a symphony. Theme and variation twine through the pages that cover the loneliness of separation\, being reunited abroad but not having what military brass considered a necessary function\, my questioning what the U.S. was doing in what felt an unpopular war\, and lingering effects of that experience after returning home. \nHer work has been published in Equinox\, Wise Woman Journal\, and Silkworm as well as being included in the Straw Dog Writers Guild anthology Compass Roads. \n  URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-faith-kindness LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Mic ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/WRITERS-READ.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T200000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20191030T185511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191218T155517Z UID:10000376-1578508200-1578513600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:6th Annual Author Showcase DESCRIPTION:6th Annual Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Showcase \n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild is planning their Sixth Annual Author Showcase for new authors. The showcase features Straw Dog members with a new book published in the last two years. URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/6th-annual-authors-showcase LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060 CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AuthorsShowcase2020-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190924T193925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T194459Z UID:10000370-1573390800-1573398000@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Kate-Senecal-Workshop-NOV-10-2019-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190809T191703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T180453Z UID:10000436-1570370400-1570377600@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WRITERS-READ-revised-for-Oct.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190909T181614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T181643Z UID:10000369-1568833200-1568840400@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:125th Anniversary - Forbes Library - Reading of local authors DESCRIPTION: 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T123000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181204T215108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T143358Z UID:10000393-1568457000-1568464200@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sept-2019-WORKSHOP.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T195636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190826T194606Z UID:10000435-1567951200-1567958400@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WRITERS-READ-revised-sept-2019.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190903T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190903T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T193110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T193115Z UID:10000432-1567537200-1567544400@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WNO-Sept-2019.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T192620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T192624Z UID:10000431-1565118000-1565125200@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WNO-August-2019.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190804T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190804T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T194730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T194733Z UID:10000434-1564927200-1564934400@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WRITERS-READ-August-2019.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190707T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190707T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T194044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T194828Z UID:10000433-1562508000-1562515200@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WRITERS-READ-July-2019.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190702T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190702T210000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190627T191551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T193538Z UID:10000430-1562094000-1562101200@strawdogwriters.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/July-2-2019-WNO.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T120000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190129T004400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190302T213758Z UID:10000400-1554631200-1554638400@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:What Happens When Your Character Calls 911? Writing Workshop with Jacqueline Sheehan & Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo DESCRIPTION:What Happens When Your Character Calls 911? \nOn Sunday\, April 7\, from 10 a.m. to noon\, author Jacqueline Sheehan and Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo present an overview of what happens when your character calls 911. This introductory program is designed to help writers increase your understanding of law enforcement and forensics\, with the overall eye on adding authenticity to your fiction. If the police become part of your narrative (as they must if something goes wrong in the lives of the characters) then it is essential to understand contemporary policing in order to create full characters. \nCrime scenes always tell a story\, which shows up as physical evidence\, but also in behavioral clues. The major purpose of the criminal investigation is to gather information\, and Detective Sergeant Vic Caputo will share what might happen in an investigation. We will use several fictional case studies as examples. The workshop will take place at the Northampton Center for the Arts. \nREGISTER HERE \nDetective Sergeant Victor Caputo has worked in Law Enforcement since 2001 and began working for the Northampton Police Department in 2004. In 2005\, he took a Military Leave of Absence to serve with the US Marines in Iraq as a Provisional Military Police Officer\, returning in 2006. He has served as a Bike Patrol Officer\, Field Training Officer\, Sexual Assault Investigator\, Patrol Supervisor and was assigned to the Detective Bureau in 2015. He is a certified instructor in the areas of Defensive Tactics and Firearms and holds masters degrees in Public Administration and Criminal Justice. He grew up in Williamsburg and still resides there with his wife\, Luann and daughter Julia. His favorite book is The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. \n  \n \nJacqueline Sheehan is a New York Times Bestselling author and a psychologist. \nShe is the author of six novels\, writes NPR commentaries\, and essays including the New York Times column\, Modern Love. She is one of the founders and past president of Straw Dog Writers Guild. You can find her at Writer’s Night Out on the first Tuesday evening of the month\, at The Basement in Northampton. Her characters frequently require assistance from the police. She teaches workshops at Writers in Progress in Florence\, MA and will co-lead a writing retreat in Prague in July 2019. www.jacquelinesheehan.com URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/7817 LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/POlice-911-Workshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20190213T163135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T163917Z UID:10000401-1551621600-1551628800@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader S. Forrest Nomakeo 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShirley Forrest Nomakeo received a B.S. in graphic design from Rivier College in Nashua\, N.H. She is the owner of a golf marketing business\, Western Mass Golf\, promoting golf at expos and via radio\, podcasts\, websites\, and print. She has written for her company’s publication\, Western Mass Golf Magazine\, and writes a daily blog about the process of writing a novel and getting it published. The Summer Palace\, a work of historical fiction\, is her first published novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-s-forrest-nomakeo LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WRITERS-READ-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181016T181938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T200407Z UID:10000386-1548599400-1548606600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Lauren Marie Schmidt DESCRIPTION:  \n \nLauren Marie Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade\, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room\, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene\, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rattle\, Nimrod\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, PANK\, New York Quarterly\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Progressive\, and others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize\, the Neil Postman Prize for Metaphor\, The Janet B. McCabe Prize for Poetry\, and the Bellevue Literary Review’s Vilcek Prize for Poetry. Her fourth collection\, Filthy Labors\, was released 2017 by Northwestern University Press.  Schmidt is currently at work on a Young Adult novel. \nReview of Filthy Labors at The Best American Poetry Blog.\nReview of Filthy Labors at The Empty Mirror. URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvous-lauren LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376 CATEGORIES:Open Mic ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Literary-Rendezvous-Jan-revised.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181114T212552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181204T194657Z UID:10000391-1547384400-1547391600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift Event  DESCRIPTION:Title of Presentation: Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift Event © \nLocation: NCA\nDate/Time: Sunday\, Jan.13\, 1-3pm \nThis workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore fear as information. Quest-ions (energy for the journey) include “What am I afraid of?” “What do I want?” and “What can I do to move through fear to the next level of courage?” In an atmosphere of unconditional positive regard that the group creates together\, unknown gifts of the Labyrinth will reveal themselves. Through movement meditation\, free writing\, and open-hearted sharing\, participants can offer and receive practical everyday skills that are designed to transform fear and adversity into courage and hope. All are welcome\, and there are no pre-requisites for this class. \nThis fear I face\nIs a deeper breath I take\nIs the courage I share\n \n(Triple Ripple movement poem) \nJanet E. Aalfs\, poet laureate of Northampton\, MA (2003-2005)\, 7th degree black belt\, and master Taiji/Qigong instructor\, has been sharing her poetic movement weavings locally\, nationally\, and internationally for 40 years. Founder and director of Lotus Peace Arts at Valley Women’s Martial Arts\, a non-profit school since 1977\, Janet is dedicated to helping create sites for revelation. Recipient of the 2013 Leadership and Advocacy in the Arts Award (UMass/CWC)\, and prizes for her poetry\, Janet practices everyday peace-building through arts activism. In March 2018\, she and Ingrid Askew\, co-creators\, offered Labyrinth as a 3-week intensive in one of Cape Town\, South Africa’s townships. Janet has been a Dodge Festival Poet and presenter/performer at numerous events and conferences. Her poetry is widely published\, and her books include Of Angels and Survivors (Two Herons Press)\, Full Open (Orogeny Press)\, Reach (Perugia Press)\, Bird of a Thousand Eyes (Levellers Press)\, and several chapbooks. \nLoading… URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/labyrinth LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Labyrinth-Through-Fear_-A-Gift-Event-©.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181209T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181209T100000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180829T212537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T213424Z UID:10000322-1544342400-1544349600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today! DESCRIPTION:Register Here URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-register-today-2 LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Poetry-Critique-Fall-2018.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181201T120000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181030T210837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T210840Z UID:10000388-1543660200-1543665600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Giving & Receiving Manuscript Feedback - Workshop with Celia Jeffries DESCRIPTION:Giving and receiving manuscript feedback \nNo one writes in a void. Although we may sometimes deny it\, most of us write to be read. But there are times when having your work read by others can be damaging or even silencing\, particularly when you are in the formative stages of a project. Many workshops have parameters for giving feedback\, ranging from “do no harm’ to ‘only speak the positive.” These are good approaches\, but what if you really want/need to hear what’s not working\, and perhaps some ideas on how to improve things? \nJoin us on Dec 1\, for an interactive discussion and overview of some ways to give and receive respectful\, useful feedback. \nLed by  Straw Dogs Steering Committee member\, Celia Jeffries\, MA\, MFA URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/giving-receiving-manuscript-feedback-workshop-with-celia-jeffries LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Giving-and-receiving-manuscript-Workshop.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181016T175646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T175654Z UID:10000385-1543158000-1543165200@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \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 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA. URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literaryrendezvousbethf LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376 CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Literary-Rendezvous-Beth.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180829T212315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T212319Z UID:10000320-1541941200-1541948400@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today! DESCRIPTION:Register HERE URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-register-today LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Poetry-Critique-Fall-2018.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T103000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181030T212215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T212221Z UID:10000389-1541844000-1541845800@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Compass Roads Reading at The Great Falls Word Festival DESCRIPTION: URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/compass-roads-reading-at-the-great-falls-word-festival LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\,\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Compass-Road-Poetry-Anthology-Nov-10.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180928T225252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181015T221016Z UID:10000383-1541336400-1541343600@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Cancelled - ROUNDTABLE: ALLY V APPROPRIATION DESCRIPTION: URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/roundtable-ally-v-appropriation LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cancelled.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20181008T232803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T233004Z UID:10000384-1540738800-1540746000@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/ Featured Readers: Stewart & Stewart DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo! Turners Falls\, MA. \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Sign up for open mic by 3:15 pm.  \nLast Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \n  \nFeatured Readers – Pamela Stewart & Joshua Michael Stewart \nJoshua Michael Stewart has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Rattle\, Salamander\, Mudfish\, Brilliant Corners\, Talking River Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems is Break Every String\,  (Hedgerow Books\, 2016.)   www.joshuamichaelstewart.com \n  \nPamela Stewart (known as Jody) is a true “boomer” and New England born and bred.  She took up writing in grade school because she couldn’t draw.   She received a BA from Goddard’s ADP Program and an MFA (sort of) from University of Iowa.  She’s taught creative writing at several universities including ASU\, University of Arizona\, UC Irvine\, and University of Houston.  In 1982 she received a Guggenheim and traveled to Cornwall in the UK where she returned to live for 7 years. Jody came back to western Massachusetts in 1990 and in 1994 she\, and her then husband\, moved to a farm at the edge of Hawley. Over the years she’s published in a number of magazines\, received 3 Pushcart publications\, and is the author of 6 full-length books of poems: The St. Vlas Elegies (L’Epervier press\, 1977)\, Cascades (L’Epervier Press\, 1979)\, Nightblind (Ion Books\, 1985)\, Infrequent Mysteries (Alice James Books\, 1991)\, The Red Window  (Univ. of Georgia Press\, 1997)\, and Ghost Farm (Pleasure Boat Studio\, 2010.) A chapbook\, Just Visiting\, was published by Grey Suit Editions\, London\, 2014. Jody continues to live on the farm with 3 dogs\, a number of elderly sheep\, a rescued race horse\, a pudgy donkey\,  a couple of goats\, and some old pigs and birds. At some point she intends to tackle a “new and selected” if the dogs let her. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-stewart-stewart CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Literary-Rendezvous-Oct.-2018.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T190000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180716T194757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180717T193712Z UID:10000308-1540566000-1540580400@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Dead Writers Dance - Literary Halloween DESCRIPTION:Do you write?\nDo you read?\nDo you wish the NYTimes Book Review would ask\nYOU which dead authors you’d like to have dinner with?Forget dinner\, come DANCE with them!\nDress up as your favorite author (or character) and Join Straw Dog Writers for our inaugural DEAD WRITERS DANCE Benefit. \nDJ\nCash bar\nFree snacks\nSurprise accolades\nWord games\nRaffles (of writerly essentials)\nTickets:  $20 in advance\, $25 at the door\n\nWE ARE LOOKING FOR UNDERWRITERS & SPONSORS!\nIf you would like to be an underwriter for this Straw Dog Writers Benefit\, please contact admin@strawdogwriters.org URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/deadwritersdance LOCATION:121 Club\, Eastworks\, Easthampton\, MA\, Easthampton\, MA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DANCE-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T170000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180914T181902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180914T182519Z UID:10000381-1540134000-1540141200@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon! URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Mic ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WRITERS-READ-Oct-2018.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T030000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180829T211942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180829T212014Z UID:10000319-1539478800-1539486000@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:Poetry Critique Group - Register today! DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-critique-group-2 LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Poetry-Critique-Fall-2018.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T120000 DTSTAMP:20260515T095204 CREATED:20180807T035909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180807T035909Z UID:10000315-1539426600-1539432000@strawdogwriters.org SUMMARY:The Poetic Dream Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Poetic Dream  Workshop with Tzivia Gover \nDreams contain all the elements great poetry including metaphor\, symbolism\, vivid imagery\, humor\, and personification. Thus\, it is no surprise that classical and contemporary poets from Coleridge to Hughes to Clifton and more have used dreams and visions to craft their works. Dreams can help new writers and experienced scribes alike by providing inspiration\, prompts\, raw material\, and fresh perspective. In this hands-on workshop we will look to our dreams with pen in hand to find ready texts that can be crafted into poems or other creative literary expressions. Participants will write poems or other creative texts inspired by their dream and learn how dreams can benefit the creative writing process. \nThis workshop is open to everyone\, whether they consider themselves a poet or not\, and whether or not they remember their dreams. The aim of this workshop is to increase personal self-awareness and emotional growth\, and to increase creative and soulful awareness and abilities through exploring dreams and poetry. \nTzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays\, and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com. \n  \n  URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/the-poetic-dream-workshop LOCATION:South Hadley Public Library\, 2 Canal St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://strawdogwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Copy-of-Poetry.png ORGANIZER;CN="Straw Dog Writers Guild":MAILTO:admin@strawdogwriters.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR