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2023

Jan. 8-29, 10-12 PVWW Workshop
Taking Shape: Experimenting with Form in Poetry


Jan. 21, 2:00 Voices of Poetry Reading
Forbes Library, Northampton
with Doug Anderson, Lori Desrosiers & Ellen Dore Watson

March 7, 7:00 Writers Night Out
Straw Dog Writers

Coolidge Room, Forbes Library,
Northampton, MA


March 9, 7:00 Featured Reader
Unbuttoned
Luthier's, Easthampton, MA


March 21, 7:30 Featured Reader
Third Tuesday Word/Paul Richmond
LAVA Center, Greenfield, MA


April 2, 3:00 Featured Reader
Poetry Month Festival
Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA


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

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

June 5, 5-6 Voices of Poetry Reading
The Mount, Edith Wharton's home Lenox, MA
with Matt Donovan & Nathan McClain

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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



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