New Salem Public Library Reading Series – Celia Jeffries

New Salem Public Library 23 S Main Street, New Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction, 2008) will kick off the Friends of the New Salem Public Library's Local Author Series with a reading from Blue Desert. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.

Free

Owain Glyndwr Wine and Welsh Cheese Event with author Pamela Petro

Lost Acres Vineyard 80 Lost Acres Road, North Granby, Connecticut, United States

As part of the annual Owain Glyndwr celebraton celebration, author Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) will present her new book: The Long Field - Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir. The Long Field was published 2021 in the UK and named a Travel Book of the Year by The […]

$20

Working Title Boston – Queer Poetry Night!

Lucy Parsons Center 358 Centre St A, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States

L Scully's (Nonfiction, January 2023) reading series, "Working Title" will host the next event at the Lucy Parsons Center. Reader list and further details TBA.

Free

Writers Read Toni Morrison with Amy Mevorach

Cambridge Center for Adult Education 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Toni Morrison wrote, “It seems to me that the best art is political, and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful simultaneously.” In this seminar, participants will read Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, and several of her essays or speeches, exploring how Morrison uses a colonial language — […]

$200

New York Welsh Monthly Meetup with Special Guest Pamela Petro

The Liberty NYC 29 W 35th St, New York, New York, United States

New York Welsh hosts a monthly meet-up at The Liberty NYC in Manhattan, New York City. In September, they are joined by Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty), author of The Long Field, Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir. For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of […]

Free

The Inflectionist Reading Series 11: Toti O’Brien, Michael Mercurio, Patrick Meeds

Online Zoom Event

Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, critical essays, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Lily Poetry Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Bear Review, Sugar House Review, Rust + Moth, Coal Hill Review, the Common, […]

Free

Book Launch: All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo

Brown Bookstore 244 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Join Brown Bookstore for the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo's debut book All Water Has Perfect Memory. Life changes forever for six-year-old Nada when Iraq's invasion of her birth country of Kuwait pushes her mother to immigrate with her to the United States. Just as she finally settles into her strange new existence apart from her father […]

Free

U35: Mass Poetry Reading Series featuring Shari Caplan

Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35. The series seeks to promote and bolster young Massachusetts poets while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets. If you are a poet under the age of 35, sign up to read via Mass Poetry's website! This event is free and […]

Free

Displaced: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Faraday Publishing and UMass Museum of Contemporary Art

Emily Dickinson Museum 280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

In collaboration with the exhibition ‘Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness‘, this reading and conversation considers the struggle of navigating between multiple, often contentious, identities. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) will be in conversation with Samuel Miranda, moderated by Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017).

Free

Absolution: Confessional Nonfiction and Hybrid Memoir Workshop with L Scully

Looky Here 28 Chapman Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

Absolution is a workshop designed to challenge the soul(s) of self-narrative. Through a combination of craft and a peer support sharing activity, we will transmutate our confessions and their literature into imperfect texts. Feel free to bring multimedia ephemera for the creation of physical and hybrid works. This workshop is a pro-queer and trans space. L Scully […]

$40

Book Challenges on the Rise: Support Your Freedom to Read

Online Zoom Event

“Freedom to Read” is a fundamental American right: your right to choose the ideas, information, and cultural experiences that are right for you and your family. That right is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. And your public library supports that right by providing free and open access to all. Book […]

Free