A Writer’s Night

On Thursday, October 17 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Doug Anderson.

Doug Anderson’s first full length book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His third book, Horse Medicine, was published by Barrow Street, and his most recent book, Undress, She Said, was published by Four Way Books. Poems from these books have won two Pushcart Prizes, a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council. He won the Emily Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has published poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Field, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and many other literary journals. His play, Short Timers was produced at Theater for the New City in New York City in 1981. He has written for film as well, and published reviews and articles in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, The London Times Literary Supplement as well as local newspapers. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009.

You may register by calling 413-565-4150, option 1. You may also come without registering.
The Longmeadow Adult Center is located at 211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA