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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous Open Mic/Featured Reader
DESCRIPTION:Dina Stander is a practitioner of radical kinship. Her favorite day jobs have been a school bus driver and hospital chaplain. Her first book of poems ‘Old Bones & True Stories was published in 2018 (Human Error Publishing). She is an end-of-life navigator\, a nondenominational Celebrant\, and maker of burial shrouds. You can read her sporadic blog posts at www.dinastander.com.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/8204
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Tommy Twilite
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376\n\n\nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n\n\nFeatured Reader –\nTommy Twilite (aka Tom Clark)  is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence Poets Society.  He is also the host of the “Twilite Poetry Pub” on WXOJ Valley Free Radio\, and the editor of “Silkworm”.  He attended Westfield State College and Umass until he dropped out in the early 1980’s to form a punk rock band.  Tommy is well known in the Western Mass area for his various musical projects and his powerful poetry readings.  He has published several chapbooks and his poetry has appeared in various publications.  Tommy recently retired as a Fire Captain / EMT from the Northampton Fire Department after a 30+ year career of dedicated service.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-tommy-twilite
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Readers Trish Crapo & Janet MacFadyen
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n 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. \nJanet 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.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-readers-trish-crapo-janet-macfadyen
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Amy Laprade
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 2:30- 4:30 pm \nSign up for Open Mic by 2:45 pm \n  \nFEATURED READER – Amy Laprade \n\n .                \nAn MFA Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Amy Laprade’s work has appeared in Silkworm\, Canyon Voices\, Plum Literary Journal and Meat for Tea: the Valley Review. Her debut novel\, “So Nice to Finally Meet You\,” 2016\, and “Behind the Magic 8 Ball\,” 2018\, have been published through Human Error Press. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-amy-laprade
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Reader Christopher J. Sparks
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeatured Reader:  \nChristopher J. Sparks grew up in Northampton\, MA through the 1980s and 90s. He writes poetry\, travel\, and history\, the latter regarding Northampton State Hospital. 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-featured-reader-christopher-j-sparks
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Lauren Marie Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nLauren Marie Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade\, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room\, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene\, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rattle\, Nimrod\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, PANK\, New York Quarterly\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Progressive\, and others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize\, the Neil Postman Prize for Metaphor\, The Janet B. McCabe Prize for Poetry\, and the Bellevue Literary Review’s Vilcek Prize for Poetry. Her fourth collection\, Filthy Labors\, was released 2017 by Northwestern University Press.  Schmidt is currently at work on a Young Adult novel. \nReview of Filthy Labors at The Best American Poetry Blog.\nReview of Filthy Labors at The Empty Mirror.
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LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous- OPEN MIC
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/literary-rendezvous-open-mic-2
LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
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SUMMARY:Literary Rendezvous - Featured Poet: Beth Filson
DESCRIPTION:Literary Rendezvous @ The Voo!  3rd St\, Turners Falls\, MA 01376 \nStraw Dog Writers Guild offers this new Poetry Open Mic & Featured Poet event. \nOpen to all poets and poetry lovers!  Last Sunday of the month 3-5pm. \nSign up by 3:15pm for Open Mic.  \n \nFeatured Poet: Beth Filson is a writer\, educator\, and a self-taught artist. She is the author and co/author of numerous academic papers\, first-person accounts\, and manuals in her field. Beth’s art was selected for the cover of the Florida Review Pulse Nightclub Tribute issue\, and her poetry appears in the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Compass Roads\, edited by Jane Yolen\, as well as in the Gallery of Readers anthology\, Celebrating Writers of the Pioneer Valley. Beth won the 2015 Los Angeles Review Wild Light Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Amherst Live Magazine\, and others. Beth lives in Easthampton\, MA.
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LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
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SUMMARY:NEW EVENT -Literary Rendezvous - Open Mic/Featured Poet: Nicole M. Young!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole M. Young – Featured Poet\n\nNicole M. Young is a performance poet\, playwright\, theatre instructor and pop culture critic originally from Detroit\, MI.  Her work has been performed across Western Massachusetts\, New York\, and Michigan.  She self-produced a spoken word album\, In/Put:  Live from the Valley\, which was recorded live and is working on her first memoir. Website  \n \nCandace Curran – Open Mic Host\n 
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LOCATION:The Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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