During the pandemic, the Emily Dickinson Museum is celebrating monthly Amherst Arts Night Plus with remote poetry readings every first Thursday. This reading will feature Hannah Larrabee, Nathan McClain, and our own Michael Mercurio. This program is free to attend but registration is required.
Directed by Alissa Jessup. Featuring: Bobby Bermea, Thea Constantine, Michelle Matlock, Duane Minard, Joshua Weinstein, & Barbie Wu. Paralyzed after a major stroke, Oregonian Contemporary artist, Rick Bartow and a young med student attempt their own form of therapy by entering Bartow’s art as expressions of prior traumas, lost indigenous heritage, abstract animal paintings, sculptures, […]
Scoundrel Time presents recent works of nonfiction and poetry from the journal, addressing the pandemic and racial justice as a part of the opening night of the online 1455 Summer Literary Festival. Writers include our own Robbie Gamble who will join in on a discussion of ways art can engage with the political world. A Q&A will […]
Jami Brandli (WSS, MFA Writing Faculty) has a virtual reading of her play, VISITING HOURS, this Saturday, August 15th at 2pm PST/5pm EST as part of The Road Theatre's Summer Playwrights Festival. There will also be a live talk-back with the director and actors right after the reading and the recording will then be available […]
If you’re nostalgic for the on-campus residencies of old, want to hear what your fellow classmates and your mentors have been working on since graduation, or if you’re curious just […]
Complete opposites Darecia and Jacob struggle to civilly co-parent their teenage son, Ohaji. When a riot that breaks out after a Black teenager is killed by police causes a lockdown, the two are trapped together in their Michigan Park neighborhood – with Ohaji nowhere to be found. The same night is then relived through an […]
How do we allow ourselves to be open enough to connect?What links us?How are we interrelated?What are the moments that bind people together?Let's explore our connection together. "The greatest distance between two people is misunderstanding." Join Scribe Stages for a reading of 22 short pieces, including one from Wendy Ewan (WSS, June 2018).
Join Lesley MFA alums Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) and Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry) in readings by twelve poets, streamed live on Facebook and hosted by Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010) and Gloria Mindock.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. Come listen to Poetry mentor Steven Cramer read from his latest poetry collection, Listen (limited spaces).
Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) reads from his new poetry collection, Listen, alongside Joyce Peseroff’s reading from Petition, her sixth book of poems.
Join the Jamaica Pond Poets for their second virtual reading in the Chapter and Verse Reading series! Featuring Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017).
Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture present Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation, which showcases contemporary elegies and critical ruminations from the recent volume Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). The co-editors of the volume, Sequoia Maner, darlene anita […]