Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format, white space, word choice, metaphors, structure, rhythm, and more. In this seminar, writers will be asked to re-imagine scenes from a work-in-progress with an emphasis on how […]
Join the Francie & Finch Bookshop to welcome Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) as she introduces her newest memoir. The publication of The Long Field will coincide with the Welsh American Festival happening from August 30th – September 3 at the Marriott Hotel in Lincoln. About the Book:In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential […]
Pam Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) is an author, artist, and educator living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was recently made an honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park, the MacDowell Colony, the Spring Creek Project for […]
Co-presented by The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, this event will feature Enzo Surin (Poetry, 2012), Roberto Carlos Garcia, Iyaba Mandingo, Geoffrey Philp, Saida Agostini Bostic, and Andre Bagoo. Hosted by Tanya Batson-Savage and Attillab Springer.
Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) has written a a meditation on the Welsh notion of hiraeth, which translates as "the long field," a metaphor for homesickness and longing. Hiraeth expands in meaning as Petro weaves together Welsh stories with stories of her own life, as a gay woman, the survivor of a train wreck, […]
Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017), Eliot Cardinaux, and Rebecca Faulkner. Michael W Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly Amherst […]
Join McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow in the bar. RSVP required. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May […]
Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novel & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) visits Wellesley Books in Wellesley, MA to discuss The Long Field, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 — […]
