Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Longmeadow Adult Center present poet Janet Aalfs for A Writer’s Night on Thursday, April 9th from 6:45-7:30pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center. Janet E. Aalfs, former poet laureate of Northampton, MA, is a Jian Mei Tai Chi/ Qigong chief instructor, an 8th degree black belt, and the founder and director of Lotus
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday May 5th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Eileen P. Kennedy, 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
Cracking Open Your Poetic Process: a roundtable experiment in stimulating our personal approaches to writing poetry. Co-facilitated by Lindsay Rockwell and Becky Jones Saturday, April 4, 2026, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Coolidge Museum at Forbes Library 20 West Street, Northampton In this roundtable experiment, up to twelve poets will gather to share reflections, ideas and
Enjoy an evening of reading and listening to poetry! Bring your newest work, your favorite work, or a poem you read from another poet. We come together on a quarterly basis to read our work and or the work of others and enjoy filling our ears and hearts with poetry. This is a safe space to
Dive into character building using psychodrama with author and poet Kevin Thomas! March 28th from 10am-12pm Easthampton Public Library Annex In this experiential writer’s craft workshop, participants will use psychodrama to enter their characters’ worlds as fully as possible—speaking in their voices, seeing through their eyes, and discovering unspoken motivations. By moving beyond the page
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday February 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Sara Eddy, 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 of
Join the Straw Dog Writers Guild to celebrate their 15th anniversary with a lively panel discussion featuring Guild co-founders and members. Highlighted are readings by novelist Michael Jerome Plunkett, Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writing Fellow Darlene Elias, and poet Julia Thacker, both alumni of the Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Emerging Writers Residency, which is
What do you bring to the table? Whether food or skill, speak to what you bring to the banquet of life. Come share your poems about community and activities you enjoy doing in a group or anything else that speaks to your heart – this is a potluck after all. (And you don’t have any
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday September 2nd, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Joshua Michael Steward 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
Join the esteemed writers of the Poetry Critique Meet-up for their Third Annual virtual group reading: The Poetry Ritual 2022. The event will take place on Zoom, Thursday, July 28 at 6pm, and will be hosted by the Meet-up moderator and SDWG Program Committee Chair, Michael Favala Goldman. You can register by sending an email to poetryritual2022@gmail.com
