Tuesday, March 15 (7 PM at Porter Square Books in Cambridge) marks the first event in the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a schedule of readings by Fellows/Finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. So, first: Woo hoo! This series is like a warm front of exciting writers rushing into a cold (as in super-cool) front of great reading environments, producing a veritable … [Read more...]
Mass Cultural Council Events
Readings by State-awarded Poets and Writers
We are thrilled - THRILLED, I say - to announce the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a series of literary events featuring Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in prose and poetry! The readings will take place this March and April 2011 in the Boston area and Western Mass., and they'll feature awardees from our 2010 review in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. … [Read more...]
Nano-interview with D M Gordon
This is one in a series of two-minute interviews with participants in the... The last scheduled reading in the series is this Wednesday, February 25, 7 PM, at Forbes Library in Northampton. So it's with a sigh and a fond click of the "Publish" button that I post this last reading series-related nano-interview. We bound across the finish line with D M Gordon, a … [Read more...]
Nano-interview with Elizabeth Hughey
This is one in a series of thumbnail interviews with participants in the Commonwealth Reading Series. Elizabeth Hughey (left) reads on Wednesday, February 25, 7 PM, at Forbes Library in Northampton. Liz is an Alabama native, a maker of vital, luminous poems, and, if this blog post is any indication, a very witty answerer of questions, nano- or otherwise. MCC: What are … [Read more...]
Nano-interview with Lisa Olstein
This is one in a series of demurely brief interviews with participants in the Commonwealth Reading Series. Lisa Olstein read in the series two years ago, after receiving a 2006 Poetry Fellowship. But along with being a past fellow (and current wonderful poet), she's also the associate director of Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action, one of the co-sponsors of … [Read more...]