Join us for our monthly book club to discuss this month’s selection Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The book is available at the library. Stop by or call the Library at 413.298.5501 to place a hold on a copy. The book club generally meets on the second Thursday of the month. We will…
Kathryn Petruccelli is a bi-coastal performer and writer with an M.A. in teaching English language learners. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Rattle, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, december, SWWIM, Literary Mama, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and others. Kathryn is a past winner of San Francisco’s Litquake essay contest and a finalist for the 2019 Omnidawn Broadside…
For two years, once a week, three abuelas and one mamá conversed around a table, sipping hibiscus tea, sharing stories, and writing, writing, writing. The tres abuelas are Maureen Seaton, Queen of Collaboration, Holly Iglesias, Mistress of Prose Poems, and Carolina Hospital, Guru of Juxtaposition; the mamá is Nicole Hospital-Medina, Alchemist of Vibes. The poems…
We invite all home chefs and budding culinarians to join us for a virtual cookbook club meeting! This month’s featured book is Curry & Kimchi: Flavor Secrets for Creating 70 Asian-Inspired Recipes at Home by Unmi Abkin & Roger Taylor Here’s how virtual cookbook club works: Each of us will prepare a recipe from this month’s…
Join us for our monthly book club to discuss this month’s selection The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. The book is available at the library. Stop by or call the Library at 413.298.5501 to place a hold on a copy. The book club generally meets on the second Thursday of the month. We will be…
Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, most recently Field Light (Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward), and two chapbooks including best man (recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, New England Poetry Club.) Prizes include Finalist, 2017 Pablo Neruda Award, and first prize, the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry. His poetry has…
In 2013, Justen Ahren published his first collection of poems, A Strange Catechism. Jorie Graham called the book “deeply beautiful, honest, imaginative, fierce, unflinching.” Two of the book’s poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His most recent collection, A Machine for Remembering, deals with migrants and refugees. This book grew out of Justen’s experiences…
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…
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…
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