Literary Rendezvous – Featured Readers Trish Crapo & Janet MacFadyen

Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St, Turners Falls, MA 01376

Straw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event.

Open to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm

Sign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm

Trish Crapo grew up in Miami, Florida and now lives on an organic farm in Leyden, Massachusetts, with her husband, Tom Ashley. They have two grown daughters, Kate and Liza. Trish is a poet, arts journalist, and photographer. She has covered poetry and the arts for the award-winning newspaper, The Recorder, reviewed fiction for the Women’s Review of Books, and has written for other publications including Provincetown Arts and Edible Pioneer Valley. Her 2014 book Dune Shack, a memoir in text and photos, chronicles a two-week residency in the wild dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Her Slate Roof chapbook, Walk Through Paradise Backwards, was reissued in 2018.

Janet MacFadyen lives in Shutesbury with her husband, the photographer Stephen Schmidt. She is the author of five works of poetry, most recently Adrift in the House of Rocks, (forthcoming from New Feral Press 2019), Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017), and In the Provincelands (Slate Roof Press chapbook, 2012). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It has also been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Crannóg, The Malahat Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been a writing fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press.