Events
2025 Workshop Revising & Polishing Your Poems 4 Sundays on Zoom, Jan.5-26, 10-12 Register at: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/revising-and-polishing-your-poems-1?referral=service_list_widget 2024 Workshop Read it, Write it: Intro to Poetic Craft 4-weeks on Zoom, Nov. 3-24, 10am-12pm https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/read-it-write-it-intro-to-poetic-craft?referral=service_list_widget Reading with Doug Anderson Sept. 13, 6:00 p.m. The Raven, Shelburne Falls, MA Reading with EJ Seibert and Jennifer Rosner July 20, 6:30 pm Dream Away Lodge Becket, MA Instructor Reading August 15, 7:00 (online) Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops Workshop Memory & Desire: Poems of Midlife June 2-23, 10-12 p.m. on Zoom PVWW To register: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/memory-desire-the-poetry-of-midlife?referral=service_list_widget Reading Anthology launch online "Poetry for the Dementia Journey" June 3, 4:00 p.m. (Eastern time) https://alzauthors.com Radio Interview June 6, 5:30 p.m. "Poet Talk" WMUA 91.1 FM with Ellen Miller Mack Workshop Revising & Polishing Your Poems Jan. 7-28 on Zoom, PVWW To register: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/revising-and-polishing-your-poems?referral=service_list_widget Reading New England Poetry Club Jan. 7, 3:00 (Zoom) Reading & Discussion Perugia Press Subverting the Motherhood Ideal with Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Arya Samuelson, Carolina Hotchandani March 8, 7:00 p.m. Northampton Center for the Arts Reading New England Poetry Club Waltham Historical Society History Whispers in Verse March 12 (in person and Zoom) with Owen Lewis, Jessica Lucci, Barbara de la Cuesta Reading & Discussion "The Poetry of Aging" April 5, 4:00 p.m. (in person) with poets Owen Lewis, Doug Anderson, Martha Rhodes, and Dr. Robert Abrams, Professor of Psychiatry in Geriatric Medicine Forbes Library, Northampton Reading & Discussion "The Poetry of Aging" April 6, 3:00 p.m. (in person) with poets Owen Lewis, Doug Anderson, Martha Rhodes, and Dr. Robert Abrams, Professor of Psychiatry in Geriatric Medicine Stockbridge Library Stockbridge, MA Workshop (on Zoom) Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops Memory & Desire: Poetry of Midlife June 2-23, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ******************** 2023 Reading Sat. Nov. 4, 11:30am-12:30pm, online: Authors & Artists Festival/ Rewilding & Renewal https://www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival Reading Sat. Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m. with Linda Dini Jenkins I AM Books Italian American Writers Assoc. 124 Salem St., Boston (North End) Reading Sat. Nov. 25, 2-4 p.m. Open Mic & Reading Lost Towns Brewery, Gilbertville, MA Workshop December 3-17 The Art of Writing Short Poems Online PVWW To register: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p372/Short_%26_Sweet_%26_Maybe_Sour%3A_The_Art_of_Writing_Short_Poems_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html ******************************************** September 3, 4-5 p.m. Reading with Peter Barton Becket Arts Center 7 Brooker Hill Rd. Becket, MA September 11-Oct. 2 PVWW Online Workshop New Voices: Expanding the Poetic Canon, Mondays 6-8 p.m. To register: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p371/New_Voices%3A_Expanding_the_Poetic_Canon_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html September 21, 6-7 p.m. Online Reading with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop teachers October, 22, 2-4 p.m. Reading with Howard Faerstein Del Rossi's, Dublin, NH June 5, 5-6 Voices of Poetry Reading The Mount, Edith Wharton's home Lenox, MA with Owen Lewis & Nathan McClain May 13-27, The Poetry Chapbook, online workshop, PVWW https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p328/The_Poetry_Chapbook%3A_Creating_and_Publishing_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html MA Poetry Festival, Salem, MA May 5, 2:15: Memory & Desire: Poems of Mid-Life. Gail Thomas, Rebecca Hart Olander, Jennifer Martelli May 6, 11:30: Now As Mother: In the Presence of Loved Ones with Alzheimer's. Gail Thomas, Christine Jones, Eileen Kennedy, Eric Hyett April 8-29, Revising & Polishing your Poems, online workshop, PVWW https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p268/Revising_and_Polishing_Your_Poems_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html April 2, 3:00 Featured Reader Poetry Month Festival Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA March 21, 7:30 Featured Reader Third Tuesday Word/Paul Richmond LAVA Center, Greenfield, MA March 9, 7:00 Featured Reader Unbuttoned Luthier's, Easthampton, MA March 7, 7:00 Writers Night Out Straw Dog Writers Coolidge Room, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA Jan. 21, 2:00 Voices of Poetry Reading Forbes Library, Northampton with Doug Anderson, Lori Desrosiers & Ellen Dore Watson Jan. 8-29, 10-12 PVWW Workshop Taking Shape: Experimenting with Form in Poetry ********************** 2022 Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Reading Broadside Books, Northampton, MA Book launch for "Trail of Roots"and "Leaving Paradise" Nov.5-26, 10-12, PVWW Workshop Memory & Desire: Poetry of Midlife Nov. 21, 6-8, Reading Firefly Books, Kutztown, PA Dec. 13, Reading, 7:00 p.m. Odyssey Books, South Hadley, MA Dec. 15, Reading, 6:30-7:30 Adult Center, Longmeadow, MA Feb.6-27, 10-12, 2022 PVWW Workshop Memory & Desire: Poetry of Midlife March 13, 1-4, PVWW Workshop Publishing your Poems April 24, 4:00 Reading Gallery of Readers: Gail Thomas & Nicole Young-Martin https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85277818073 April 29, 7:00 Reading, Gail & others PVWW to register: http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/readings--events-virtual.html May 2-23, PVWW Workshop Revising & Polishing Your Poems 2021 June 24, 6-7 p.m. Reading: Phosphorescence Gail Thomas, Nicole K. Young, Amina Mendez Rodriguez Emily Dickinson Museum https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphorescence-2021/ April 19-10: Workshop, PVWW Revising and Polishing Your Poems To Register: http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p268/Revising_and_Polishing_Your_Poems_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html March 15-29: Workshop, PVWW Taking Shape: Experimenting with Form To Register: http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p220/Taking_Shape%3A_Experimenting_with_Form_in_Poetry_-_4_Weeks_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29_-_ONLINE.html 2020 Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. Reading: Gail Thomas, Karen Skolfield, Rage Hezekiah, Anders Carlson-Wee Sponsored by Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops RSVP for Zoom invite: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/upcoming-readings.html Sept. 12, 1-4 p.m. Writing Prose Poems That Sing Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops Williamsburg, MA Register: http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p157/Writing_Prose_Poems_That_Sing_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29.html Oct. 3, 1-4 p.m. Publishing Your Poems Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops Williamsburg, MA Register: http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/store/p99/Publishing_Your_Poems_%28with_Gail_Thomas%29.html 2019 July 9, 7:30 p.m. Reading World Fellowship Center Conway, New Hampshire April 14, 1- 4 p.m. Publishing Your Poems Pioneer Valley Writers Workshops Williamsburg, MA April 11, 7:00 p.m. Reading & talk Stoneleigh-Burnham School Greenfield, MA April 7, 2:00 p.m. Featured reader, Writers Read Belding Memorial Library Ashfield, MA April 5, 5:30 p.m. Perugia Press Presents Gail Thomas & Jennifer Martelli Eileen Fisher, Northampton, MA February 24, March 3, & March 10 (1 - 3pm), Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops, Williamsburg, MA Revising & Polishing Your Poems with Gail Thomas 2018 Nov. 10 ~ 1:00 & 2:00 p.m. Reading: Naugatuck River Review Reading: SOUP Poets Shea Theater, Turner's Falls , MA Great Falls Word Festival Nov. 17 ~ 3:00 p.m. Publishing Your Poems Write Angles Conference Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA https://writeanglesconference.com/2018/10/12/registration-has-begun-2/ Oct. 30 ~ 7:00 p.m. Robert Collen Poetry winners' reading Wheeler Memorial Library Orange, MA Sept. 16 ~ 4:00 p.m. Reading: Gallery of Readers Smith College, Northampton Sept. 29 ~ 1-4 p.m. Workshop: Publishing Your Poems Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops Williamsburg, MA www.pioneervalleywriters.org/writing-workshops.html April 9 ~ 1:00 p.m. Reading as Author of the Month Northampton Senior Center April 10 ~ 7:00 p.m. Compass Points: Poetry of Pioneer Valley Reading and book launch Florence Community Center April 28 ~ 1-4 p.m. Speaking Out: Writing Political Poems Workshop/Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops Williamsburg, MA http://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/writing-workshops.html May 12 ~ 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Diving Deep: Poetic Craft, Form & Emotion Workshop leader/Straw Dog Writers Lily Library, Florence, MA www.strawdogwriters.org/post/diving-deep May 16 ~ 7:00 p.m. Memory & Desire: Poems of Mid-life Reading with Leslea Newman & Joy Ladin Forbes Library, Northampton, MA May 18 ~ 4-8 p.m. Author's Cabaret Readings and music Anchor House, Northampton, MA 2017 Nov. 7 ~ 7:00 p.m. Featured reader, Writers Night Out The Basement, Northampton, MA Oct. 1 ~ 6:00 p.m. Reading at Nelsonville Library Nelsonville, Ohio Sept. 27 ~ 7:00 p.m. Straw Dog Author Showcase Forbes Library, Northampton, MA Sept. 9 ~ 7:00 p.m. AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA Readings and song to benefit The Alzheimer's Family Support Center of Cape Cod with Gail Thomas, Melanie Braverman August 5 ~ 2:00 p.m. Voices of Poetry: Splitting the Atom Eastham Public Library Eastham, MA June 12 ~ 6:30 p.m. Reading, Whitehall Township Library Whitehall, PA April 20 ~ 4 p.m. Reading with Naila Moreira Smith Poetry Center Smith College, Northampton April 8~ 4:00 p.m. Reading with Rich Michelson White Square Books, Easthampton Easthampton Book Fair March 27 ~6-8 p.m. Featured reader: Wagon Wheel Word Wagon Wheel, Rte. 2, Gill, MA March 18 ~ 2:00 p.m. Voices of Poetry:Ain't I A Woman Canton Public Library Canton, Conn. March 8 ~ 7 p.m. Reading & Book launch for Odd Mercy Broadside Books, Northampton 2016 Dec. 11 ~ 4 p.m. Gallery of Readers Anthology reading, Weinstein Auditorium, Smith College Nov. 12 ~ 7:30 p.m. Perugia Press 20th anniversary reading, Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College Oct. 23 ~ 2 p.m. Reading with Patrick Donnelly at Arts Block, Greenfield Word Festival Oct. 6 ~ 7 p.m. Reading with Leslea Newman, White Square Books, Easthampton Sept. 21 ~ 7 p.m. Straw Dog Author Showcase, Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library, Northampton Sept. 16 ~ 3 p.m. "You Can't Go Home Again: Poems of Displacement", Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst Poetry Festival Sept. 16 ~ 7 p.m. Reading, Amherst Poetry Festival, Emily Dickinson Museum, James Tate Stage July 7 ~ 7 p.m. Featured reader, Amherst Arts Walk Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA May 14 ~ 2 -4 p.m. Reading to benefit Center for New Americans Brew Practitioners, Florence, MA April 19 ~ 7 p.m. Featured Reader: Greenfield Word Greenfield, MA Jan. 13 - 2:30 p.m. Reading and writing workshop: Applied Humanities Learning Lab, U.Mass, Amherst, MA 2015 March 5, 2015 - 12:30 p.m. Women's History Month: Mt. Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA April 15, 2015 - 6:30 p.m. Humanities Project talk and reading: No Simple Wilderness, Athol Library, Athol, MA April 25, 2015 - 3:30 p.m. Book Launch for Waving Back: Forbes Library Community Room, Northampton, MA April 29, 2015 - 4 p.m. Reading with Floyd Cheung: Smith College Poetry Center, Northampton, MA MA Poetry Festival, Salem, MA May 2, 9:30 a.m., "Unvarnished: Telling the Truth about Aging", Hawthorne Hotel Library May 2, 2:00 p.m., "Queer as Family: The F Word", Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room May 16, 2015 ~ 5 -7 p.m. Voices of Poetry: Back off the Shelf, Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, CT June 13, 2015 - 4-6 p.m. Straw Dog Treats: Group Reading, Smith College Poetry Center, Northampton, MA June 19, 2015 ~ 6:30 p.m. Reading and open studio, Ron Parent Studio, Detroit, MI June 20, 2015 ~ 7:00 p.m. Reading: BookBound, 1729 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor, MI August 14, 2015 ~ 7:00 p.m. Reading: Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME September 1, 2015 ~ 7 p.m. Featured reader: Writers Night Out, The Basement, Northampton, MA September 20, 2015 ~ 4:00 p.m. Gallery of Readers, Smith College October 4, 2015 ~ 1:00 p.m. Amherst Poetry Festival Unvarnished: Telling the Truth About Aging October 10, 2015 ~ 6:30-8:30 p.m. Reading: Kempton, PA October 13, 2015 ~ 7 p.m. Featured Reader: Unbuttoned Luthier's, Easthampton, MA November 5, 2015 ~ 7 p.m. Collected Readers Series, Mocha Maya's, Shelburne Falls, MA November 15, 2015 ~ 1-3 p.m. Reading: Literary Arts Spotlight, Springfield Public Library, Springfield, MA |