Events
![]() ********************* 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 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 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 ********************** 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 |