Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us - both built and natural - and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By […]
Join Books on the Square on Thursday, August 24th at 6:00 p.m. for a reading and discussion with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty), author of The […]
Please join MainStreet BookEnds of Warner to celebrate the US book launch of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence – A Memoir with author Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]