Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The Basement, 21 Center Street
(Down the drive, in back of building, next to the
Northampton Police Department)
Northampton, MA
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Featured Reader: Sharon Tracey
 Sharon Tracey is a writer, editor, and author of What I Remember Most Is Everything (ALL CAPS PUBLISHING 2017), her first full-length collection of poetry. In these poems, color melds with words as synesthesia and paintings come alive as we ride across a decade, traveling west to the streets of San Francisco then on to Munich, Moscow and beyond. Art and nature are recurring themes in her work. Her poems have appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Silkworm, The Skinny Poetry Journal and are forthcoming in Canary and Common Ground Review. She has enjoyed a varied career as an environmentalist, policy analyst, program manager, editor and most recently, as a communications director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley. She is currently working on a series of poems inspired by women artists of the past five centuries.
Doors open at 7 - with an open mike. If you'd like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes.
Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue.
Please join us!
Further information: Beth Filson at wno@strawdogwriters.org
SAVE THE DATE
Featured Reader for September 5th - Ed Orzechowski
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Writers Read @ Elmer's is now
Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
AUGUST 6th, 2017!
And every month on the 1st Sunday 3:00–5:00 pm.* at The Inn at Norton HIll, (across from Elmers) 10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA
The Inn at Norton Hill
Nan, the owner of Elmer's and Norton Hill Inn, offered us a quieter space in the Inn! Thank you, Nan!
FEATURED READER: Lisa Drnec Kerr is an assistant professor of English at Western New England University. She has published poetry in a variety of journals including Green Mountains Review, English, Cold Mountain Review, Oxford Magazine, Kalliope, and others. Her manuscript Sky Lake Crossing received honorable mention for the 2011 May Sarton Prize for poetry. Her poem WALKING HORSES was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild, Elmer's Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.
Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls!
A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get three minutes.)
*September's Writers Read will happen the second Sunday, due to Labor Day.
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Save the Date ~ November 12, 2017
Straw Dog Writers Guild is pleased to announce the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award, to be awarded to a poet of national stature whose work illuminates justice, injustice, and resistance.
At the event, to be held on November 12, 2017 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, the honoree (who will be announced in September) will read from original work and discuss writing as resistance.
Abel Meeropol (1903-1986) was a Jewish poet, playwright, and composer. Under the pen name Louis Allan, he wrote the words and music of “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching song which was named the most important song of the twentieth century by Time Magazine, and made famous by Billie Holiday. Abel also wrote the words for “The House I Live In,” which won an Academy Award in 1945, and the libretto for the opera “The Good Soldier Schweik,” based on the Czech anti-war novel by Jaroslav Hasek. Abel’s poems, songs, and plays explore themes of racial and economic injustice, as well as war and peace. He and his wife Anne adopted the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their execution. In memory of Abel and his work to change the world through literature, his family has funded the award from royalties from "Strange Fruit."
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**The Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award event is going to take a lot of work. If you are interested in volunteering for this program, please contact Laura Stone at admin@strawdogwriters.org
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Straw Dog Writers Guild is a volunteer 501(c)3 organization, committed to paying writers for their presentations. Your tax-deductible memberships and donations help support them.
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