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SUMMARY:Writers Reading: Michael Mercurio\, with JJ Starr-McClain\, Kirun Kapur\, and Patrick Donnelly
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Amherst Business Improvement District\, Writers Reading is a curated series featuring local authors. The next installment of the reading series hosts a line-up curated by featured writer Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017). Mercurio and fellow authors JJ Starr-McClain\, Kirun Kapur\, and Patrick Donnelly will share selections from their work. \n\n\n\nA poet\, editor\, and occasional critic\, Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems\, interviews\, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry\, Thrush\, The Common\, Cream City Review\, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club)\, Sugar House Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Michael is the founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series\, where established and emerging poets read together monthly on Zoom. In addition\, he serves on the planning committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival\, held each September at Emily Dickinson’s house\, and he is an instructor for the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Learn more about Michael at poetmercurio.com. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend and open to all. See additional author bios at umass.edu/downtown/news-events.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writers-reading-michael-mercurio-with-jj-starr-mcclain-kirun-kapur-and-patrick-donnelly/
LOCATION:UMass Downtown\, 108 N Pleasant Street\, Amherst\, Massachusetts\, 01002\, United States
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SUMMARY:How to Say Hello to a Dog! with Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join Sara Levine (WFYP\, January 2006) and other authors for the 2025 Bath Book Bash in Library Park! Bring the whole family to downtown Bath\, ME to visit with 25 children’s authors and illustrators\, enjoy free author workshops\, a costume contest\, family friendly activities\, music\, food trucks\, and more!
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/how-to-say-hello-to-a-dog-with-sara-levine/
LOCATION:Library Park\, 43 Summer Street\, Bath\, Maine\, 04530\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry: The Art of Words with Steven Cramer and Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Poetry The Art of Words (PTAOW) is a poetry reading series featuring both local and regional poets\, meeting monthly between September and June. This event will feature poets Steven Cramer and Jen Jabaily-Blackburn. In addition to the scheduled readers\, there will be an open mic for those who want to read a poem. Look for the signup sheet when you arrive. \n\n\n\nDoors open at at 1pm. Features begin at 1:30\, followed by intermission for books sales and signings\, and closing with an open mic. The event is free (suggested donation $5)\, open to the public\, and handicapped accessible. \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer’s new chapbook\, As If: Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert\, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books. His seven poetry collections include Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press\, 2023); Listen (MadHat Press\, 2020)—named a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book); Clangings (Sarabande Books\, 2012); and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books\, 2004)\, winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Prize and named an Honor Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, he founded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. \n\n\n\nJen Jabaily-Blackburn is the author of the full-length collection Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press\, 2024) and the e-chapbook Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk University\, 2024). She is the winner of the Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award\, selected by Stephanie Burt. Originally from the Boston area\, she now lives in Western Massachusetts with her family. In 2024\, she joined the advisory board of Perugia Press\, and she is an associate editor of Nine Syllables Press\, housed at Smith College\, where she is the Program & Outreach coordinator for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/poetry-the-art-of-words-with-steven-cramer-and-jen-jabaily-blackburn/
LOCATION:Plymouth Center for the Arts\, 11 North Street\, Plymouth\, Massachusetts\, 02360\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Stage Reading with Diane Griffin
DESCRIPTION:The Garlic & Arts Festival will be celebrating 12 years of Words on the Word Stage with readings by a number of authors\, including Diane Griffin (Nonfiction\, January 2018). This festival began to support local artists and farmers in the North Quabbin and nearby towns\, and will run from September 27-28\, with performances by other authors on the Word Stage throughout.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/spoken-word-stage-reading-with-diane-griffin/
LOCATION:Forster Farm\, 60 Chestnut Hill Road\, Orange\, Massachusetts\, 01364\, United States
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SUMMARY:Turkeys in Disguise Book Launch with Cynthia Platt
DESCRIPTION:Visit Whitelam Books for this in-person book launch of Cynthia Platt’s (WFYP\, June 2014) new picture book\, Turkeys in Disguise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s Thanksgiving Day and Farmer Byrd’s Turkey & Vegetable Farm is expecting business\, but a surprisingly empty pen has the farmer declaring\, “No turkeys for sale!” \n\n\n\nFollow along as a group of kids get crafty and decide to save some turkeys by coming up with a cornucopia of creative and silly disguises for their feathered friends. \n\n\n\nInspired by the popular Thanksgiving school activity of creating paper disguises for the turkey\, this lower-priced hardcover picture book is perfect for the classroom and for story time at home. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/turkeys-in-disguise-book-launch-with-cynthia-platt/
LOCATION:Whitelam Books\, 610 Main Street\, Reading\, Massachusetts\, 01867\, United States
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SUMMARY:East End Books Ptown presents: L Scully "Self-Romancing" in conv. w/ Zac Smith and Madison Murray
DESCRIPTION:Visit East End Books in Provincetown to celebrate the launch of L Scully’s (Nonfiction\, January 2023) poetry collection\, Self-Romancing. L will be in conversation with Zac Smith and Madison Murray. You can also watch the event through the store’s Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a tonal mash-up of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms\, confessional poetry\, and fortune telling\, Self-Romancing draws you into the amorous and obsessive inner life of an unnamed romantic. Relatable and snarky\, heartfelt and horny\, L Scully fortifies irony with vulnerability\, bringing readers into a narrative as intimate as slumber parties and ordinary as Trader Joe’s. Bursting with the giddy charm of the everyday\, Self-Romancing plays with form\, turning a book into a crush\, a crank call\, a manifesto.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/east-end-books-ptown-presents-l-scully-self-romancing-in-conv-w-zac-smith-and-madison-murray/
LOCATION:East End Books Ptown\, 389 Commercial Street\, Provincetown\, Massachusetts\, 02657\, United States
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