This weekend (Sunday, April 7, 2013, 4 PM), the Commonwealth Reading Series continues at Gulu-Gulu Cafe. The series features Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in literature. Here: a brief sampling of work by Sunday's featured writers and poets... July, air thick as soup but clear as cold water, I step hard on a spade's edge and push it into Iowa's … [Read more...]
Mass Cultural Council Events
Julie Wu on The Third Son and the World(s) of Writing
Julie Wu (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '12) is among the writers & poets in Mass Cultural Council's Commonwealth Reading Series, reading at the Forbes Library in Northampton on April 24, 2013, 7 PM. Days later, she'll celebrate the publication of her novel, The Third Son (from the publisher: "a story of yearning and freedom set in occupied Taiwan and in America at … [Read more...]
Commonwealth Reading Series Launches at Newtonville Books 4/2
Tomorrow night (Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 7 PM), the Commonwealth Reading Series launches at Newtonville Books. If you've been following the blog, you may know that the Commonwealth Reading Series is a series of events featuring readings by MCC-awarded writers and poets. We thought we'd mark the occasion by sharing brief samples of work by tomorrow's featured writers and … [Read more...]
Readings by State-Awarded Writers & Poets
We are honored to announce the 2013 Commonwealth Reading Series, a series of literary events featuring Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in prose and poetry. The readings will take place this April 2013 in venues throughout the Commonwealth, and they'll feature awardees from our recent grants in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. Massachusetts … [Read more...]
The Reading Series That Was
On Tuesday, April 5, we held the last event in our 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, and Regie O'Hare Gibson, David Lovelace, Tova Mirvis, Leslie Williams, and Lara JK Wilson proffered poetry and prose to the delight and invigoration of the assembled Newtonville Books audience. Working at the Mass. Cultural Council has many terrific aspects, but getting to do events like the … [Read more...]