Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet MacFadyen on Thursday, February 20 from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Janet MacFadyen’s third full-length collection, State of Grass, was released February 2024 by Salmon Poetry. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown, and a
Straw Dog Writers’ Guild, Longmeadow Adult Center, and The Storrs Library present Pete Nelson, writer of stories, novels, and song lyrics on Thursday, January 16, 6:45 at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Peter Nelson was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He received his MFA in poetry from
The Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writer’s Night” with Jovonna Van Pelt, poet and essayist. Jo is the author of “Unrelated Questions” a gorgeous book of poetry published in 2019, and her endearing book of Christmas Stories, “Merry and Bright,” was published in 2022. Over the years her writing
On Thursday, November 21 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Susan Sensemann. Susan Sensemann is an artist and writer who recently moved from Chicago to Easthampton. She is professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught contemporary theory and painting. She
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
On Thursday, September 19 from 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Chris O’Carroll. Chris O’Carroll is the author of three books of poems – The Joke’s on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed. He has been a Light magazine featured poet and his work appears in New
On Thursday, June 20, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Linda Bratcher Wlodyka. Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated
On Thursday, May 16, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Celia Jeffries. Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert—winner of the May Sarton award— has had her work published in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Puerto del Sol, as well as
On Thursday, April 18, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Christopher Boucher. Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (2011), Golden Delicious (2016) and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Finalist), all out from Melville House.
On Thursday, March 21, 6:45-7:30pm Straw Dog Writers Guild and The Longmeadow Adult Center present A Writer’s Night with Richard Michelson. RICHARD MICHELSON’s most recent poetry collection is Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant Books, 2023). Previous collections include More Money than God (U of Pittsburgh Press), Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois), Tap
