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…
Local noted author, Kevin O’Hara, a longtime columnist for The Berkshire Eagle and the proud recipient of the John F. Kennedy National Award, will be reading excerpts from his newest book, Ins and Outs of a Locked Ward: My 30 Years as a Psychiatric Nurse, which chronicles his storied career as an RN on the…
Join us for a Berkshire Chamber Players Concert! In-Person Tickets Get tickets! Virtual Tickets Get tickets! If you have any trouble registering, please call (413) 298-5501 for assistance! Yevgeny Kutik - With a “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique” (The New York Times), violinist Yevgeny Kutik has captivated audiences worldwide with an old-world sound that communicates…
Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue…
Join us for Cookbook Club at the Library or on Zoom. This month’s cookbook selection is That Sounds so Good by Carla Lalli Music. 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.
PETER SCHMITT is the author of six collections of poems: Goodbye, Apostrophe (forthcoming in 2020 from Regal House); Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books); Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press); and two chapbooks, Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, and To Disappear (Pudding House). He has received The Lavan Award…
June's Book Club will be featuring Tony Horwitz's book Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide." According to the publisher: "With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape…
On Thursday, June 9th at 6:00 p.m. Robert D. Kaplan will be speaking at the Stockbridge Library Association in conversation with Jim Brooke. His new book, Adriatic will be on sale at the event. ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including…
Join us on the Stockbridge Library lawn for some sheep-y fun brought to us by Amanda Barcencas of Prado de Lana! There will be a sheep shearing demonstration, a working dog presentation, crafts and a sheep-themed storytime, and artisan vendors at the Prado de Lana shop, which is located right around the corner from our…
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