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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Libby Maxey
DESCRIPTION:Libby Maxey\, of Conway\, MA\, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama; she also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice\, and her own poems have appeared in Crannóg\, Kestrel\, Naugatuck River Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Emrys and elsewhere. Her first chapbook\, Kairos\, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Locally\, she has won both the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest and the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest\, and her work was selected for the Northampton Arts Council’s 2017 Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-libby-maxey
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader: Alexis Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years.  Her undergraduate degree in in languages and linguistics. Her double masters is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Spanish. Before that she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years.  Her first book\,Playing With A Full Deck\, is a wry look at her experiences in 52 short essays. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-alexis-johnson
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
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. \nFeatured Reader Dr. Mary Clare Powell taught for 30 years at Lesley University (Cambridge\, MA) in the Creative Arts in Learning program\, a Master’s program for teachers. She has published books on women and the future; the arts\, education\, and social change; and two books of poetry–Things Owls AteandAcademic Scat—and two chapbooks–In the Living Room\,andBox of Water. Everyday Ecstasy is her collection of poems about aging\, which she has found to be rich\, stimulating\, and even fun\, in spite of losses of all kinds.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
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. \nFeatured Reader – Joshua Michael Stewart has had poems published in the Massachusetts Review\, Louisville Review\, Rattle\, Night Train\, Evansville Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems\, Break Every String\, was published by Hedgerow Books in April 2016. He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. He’s a Teacher/Counselor\, working with individuals with special needs. Visit him at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Gail Thomas
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. \nFeatured Reader – Gail Thomas  \nPoet and teacher Gail Thomas has published four books: Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back(2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley(2001) andFinding the Bear(1997). \nOdd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press\, and its “Little Mommy Sonnets” won Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/ Margaret Prize for Traditional Verse. Also\, Waving Backwas named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival. \nThomas’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’sNarrative Poetry Prize\, the Edward Hearst Prize\, and the Pat Schneider Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s\, has been taught in college courses. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers\, musicians and storytellers in schools\, nursing homes\, hospitals and libraries across the state. \nThomas teaches\, speaks at conferences and poetry festivals\, and reads her work widely in community and academic settings. www.gailthomaspoet.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-gail-thomas
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
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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
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Michael J. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Michael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \nHere’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.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-michael-j-ponsor
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - featured reader Frances W. Henry
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! \nFrances W. Henry \n\n\n\nFrances W. Henry was born and raised in Sag Harbor\, New York. She graduated from the New School for Social Research and earned an MBA from Harvard University. An executive and founder of nonprofits\, she now devotes herself to the visual and literary arts. She created East Branch Press in 2006\, which has issued three volumes of her essays. Henry’s first book of memoir was published by GP Putnam’s Sons in 1983. She lives in the Hilltowns of western Massachusetts with her husband Walter Korzec.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-frances-w-henry
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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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
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