(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 Mali will be reading new, unpublished work, as…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – During the month of April – National Poetry Month – WordXWord sponsors a 30-day poetry challenge. Poets, young and old, student and professional, are given a prompt each day via e-mail to which they are challenged to respond with a poem. Poems can be as long or short, as serious or whimsical…
WORD X WORD FESTIVAL Pittsfield, Mass. Sunday, August 14, 2011 by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The first indoor event of this year’s Word X Word Festival took place on Sunday night in a raw space on the top floor of the Compuworks building, and featured two spoken-word performers – Taylor Mali and Iyeoka Ivie…
(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…
