Nationally awardwinning poet Phillip B. Williams has published his newest book, moving through a space where myth and story and lived experience charge the air — a place of persistence, anger and beauty.
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Asking who Emily Dickinson loved
Emily Dickinson is more than I knew. The metaphysical recluse in white is a hurt, outspoken, ardent woman in a smock the wind can blow through.
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Emily Dickinson opens her garden gate
Emily Dickinson rounds the corner from the orchard to rest from apple picking — and runs straight into us.
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Where the wild nights are: Emily Dickinson at home
She an eager college student begging her family for books, a religious rebel in Calvinist New England, an amateur botanist and the center of love triangles and family controversy years after she died …
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Writers warm up with festivals in early fall
“Despite a strong midday sun, the road was all green shadow thanks to trees thick and tall as a god’s fingers. My old block trees were like zoo elephants — one or two specimens stunted by a cement habitat. But this chaos of greenery had my heart calling dibs.” Quiara […]
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‘Hello, Bookstore’ film appears at BIFF
This week the Berkshire International Film Festival will screen Adam Zax’ new feature film about Matt Tannenbaum and his family, and the community that has carried the Bookstore through the pandemic.
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Genevieve Taggard — a friend speaks to Robert Frost (Aug. 11 newsletter)
I would never have known Genevieve Taggard wrote a hundred years ago. She writes so openly in 1920, as a poet and Robert Frost’s friend …
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Five writers share vibrant works from Berkshire residency
Mastheads writers, four poets and a playwright, read to an intimate audience at Melville’s Arrowhead on the first evening of clear skies after the rain.
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Summertime and the poets are reading … (Juy 14 newsletter)
Keith S. Wilson is tracing subtle differences in trees … He’s an awardwinning poet, and he’s standing in the barn doorway at Arrowhead with his fellow writers in the Mastheads, reading his work aloud.
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Sculpture takes natural forms at The Mount
He’s a massive figure standing here at the top of the hill … Jamie Burnes’ life-sized bison made from Corten steel and locust wood looks out into the summer sculpture show at the Mount.
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