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2025

Workshop
Taking Shape: Writing Poems in Form
Nov. 2-23, 10-12 on Zoom
Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops
Register: 
https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/taking-shape-writing-poems-in-form?referral=service_list_widget

Reading
Readers & Writers Live
Gail Thomas, Darlene Elias
Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m.
Forbes Library, Northampton, MA


Reading

PVWW Instructors
Sept. 20, 7 p.m.
Florence Civic Center


Workshop

Publishing Your Poems
Sept. 27, 1-3 p.m. on Zoom
Register: PVWW

https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/courses

Reading & Workshops
Poetry Society of Vermont
Oct. 4, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Readings, lunch, workshop. All free!
Register here: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5IKLbjeiaGds-i2nipJsFdIgYcAWJFi9Ey_xRyno7SjKO1w/viewform
All Souls Church, West Village Meetinghouse
West Brattleboro, VT


Workshop Panel
Publishing for Poets
Gail Thomas, Rebecca Olander, Jennifer Martelli
WriteAngles Writing Conference
Oct. 18
Greenfield Community College


Publishing Panel
Straw Dog Writers
March 29, 12:30-2 p.m.
Northampton Center for the Arts
Hawley St., Northampton, MA


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.



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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

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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
























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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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