Gene Fidell will speak about current issues facing the military justice system, starting with the mandatory vaccination program and legislative action shrinking commanders’ power to make prosecution decisions. Has the military justice system become too complicated? Is its sweep too broad? Is command influence still a concern? What about military justice in the National Guard?…
Adam O. Davis was born in Arizona and grew up in France, New Jersey, Scotland, and Utah. His debut poetry collection, Index of Haunted Houses, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, was published in 2020. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Believer, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Paris…
Freud reputedly said, “Wherever I go I find a poet’s been there before.” Poets are known for the clarity of their understanding of what it means to be human. They, too, often live at the boundaries of “normalcy.” In this symposium four Berkshire poets will share reflections on this interface, both as poets and individuals…
Perry S. Nicholas recently retired as English Professor at SUNY ERIE. He has published one textbook of poetry prompts, three full-length and six chapbooks of original poetry, along with two CDs of poetry. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Literary House Review, Caesura, Word Worth, Silver Birch Press, Snapdragon, Verse-Virtual, Slant, Feile-Festa, Louisiana…
Join us on Zoom for a discussion of Linda Greenhouse's new book Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court.
Myra Malkin is the author of No Lifeguard on Duty (Mainstreet Rag Publishing Company, 2010) and Sunset Grand Couturier (Broadstone Books, 2022). In 2016, in a contest judged by Edward Hirsch, her poem “Wallis-Wallace” won the 12th Mudfish Poetry Prize. After growing up in New York City, she studied acting at the Royal Academy of…
Join us for Cookbook Club at the Library or on Zoom. This month's cookbook selection is Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi. Copies are available for loan at the Library. Prepare a recipe to share and bring it to the library or share your experience with us via Zoom.
This interactive workshop facilitated by Tom Truss is part of ReWritten, a performance project that reflects on the often silenced & overlooked intimate relationship between the authors Nathaniel Hawthorne & Herman Melville. Using the letters Melville wrote to Hawthorne - the ones from Hawthorne to Melville are missing - ReWritten investigates secrets, social morés, saying…
Lawrence Raab is the author of nine books of poems, including Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts (Tupelo, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2015 by The New York Times. An earlier collection, What We Don’t Know About Each Other (Penguin, 1993) was a winner of the National Poetry Series…
Kim Ports Parsons’ debut collection Mayapple Forest is forthcoming from Terrapin Books. Kim grew up near Baltimore, earned degrees, taught for decades, and worked in libraries. Now, she lives next to Shenandoah National Park where she gardens, walks, and writes. Her poetry has appeared in The Galway Review, Cider Press Review, Banyan Review, and other journals. She volunteers weekly for…
We are excited to be able to offer May's Book Club as a hybrid event! Please join us virtually or in-person on Thursday, May 19th from 4:00pm - 5:00pm as we discuss Mitch Albom's novel The Stranger in the Lifeboat. From the author of Tuesdays with Morrie: "What would happen if we cried out to God…
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