Tag Archive for reading

Poets to Pay Tribute to Their Influences in WordXWord Readings

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Six Berkshire poets will read works by poets who inspired them along the way in Poet Via Poet with Page+Stage, a presentation of this week’s WordXWord Festival in downtown Pittsfield, at yBar and Gallery 25, on Monday and Tuesday, August 13 and 14, 2012. The poets include Curtis Asch, Gabriel Squailia, Nakeida…

Northampton Author to Read at yBar

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Novelist and essayist Cathi Hanauer will appear as the featured author for July 2012 in the WXW Writers Room series at yBar on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at 8 p.m. Hanauer will read a short excerpt from her brand new novel, Gone, and then answer questions and discussing writing, life, marriage, or…

Author Roland Merullo to Speak about the Writing Life at The Clark

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –  Award-winning author Roland Merullo will speak about his convoluted path to becoming an acclaimed and prolific author at The Clark on Sunday, June 10, 2012, at 3 p.m. Merullo has published many essays and more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, ranging from his Revere Beach trilogy, set in his…

Seth Rogovoy to Read at yBar in Pittsfield, Mass., on Tuesday, May 22

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Seth Rogovoy is the featured reader at yBar on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 8 pm (291 North St.) in Pittsfield as part of the Tuesday Night Writers Room series, a project of the WordXWord Festival hosted by Emily Pulfer-Terino and Gabriel Squailia. Best known for his award-winning writing about music and…

Poet Marie-Elizabeth Mali to Read at yBar in Pittsfield, Mass.

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Poet Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the featured reader at yBar on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at 8 pm (291 North St.) in Pittsfield as part of the Tuesday Night Writers Room series, a project of the WordXWord Festival hosted by Emily Pulfer-Terino and Gabriel Squailia. Mali will be reading new, unpublished work, as…

Jeremy Goodwin to Read at yBar

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Cultural journalist and author Jeremy Goodwin will read new work at yBar on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 8 pm (291 North St.) in Pittsfield as part of the Tuesday Night Writers Room series, a project of the WordXWord Festival and hosted by Emily Pulfer-Terino and Gabriel Squailia. Goodwin plans to read…

Poets Charles Coe, Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison to Read at The Mount

Poet Charles Coe

(LENOX, Mass.) – Charles Coe and Berkshire poets Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison will read their poetry at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Estate and Gardens, on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 4 p.m., in “Picnic with Poets,” a co-presentation by Close Encounters With Music and The Mount. Recognized by Boston Magazine as “one of the…

Gov. Deval Patrick to Perform at Word X Word Festival

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, will share “Lessons from an Improbable Life,” the subtitle of his memoir, A Reason to Believe, at the Colonial Theatre on Thursday, August 18, at 7, as part of the city’s third annual Word X Word Festival, which kicks off on Saturday, August 13, and takes…