People are sharing stories in a way I haven’t felt in the Northern Berkshires in a long time — not since Inkberry held writing workshops and readings in a storefront in North Adams …
Read articleCharles Coe brings poetry to Close Encounters (flashback)
Cambridge poet Charles Coe can write with the crowd-surging energy of hot summer nights, soul and sweat … and with the warmth of holding hands.
Read articleWriting behind the scenes — Why talking matters
I remember a conversation at Shakespeare & Company 20 years ago. They were two stage veterans talking with a cub journalist from the local weekly … and they got off script. They let the talk move between us into their own lives.
Read articleWriters revive lost languages at the Mount
The stories move from inlets of red mangrove and sea grass to worn tarmac in northern Alaska on long nights, and a family looking across city skylines between Tehran and Boston …
Read articleComfort food (for thought) in stormy weather
Mountain Meadow opens out in a long arc. It’s a warm day after these weeks of single digits, and the snow is soft underfoot, like wet sand on the tideline.
Read articleChange the universe until Iphigenia lives (November 3 newsletter)
Wayne Shorter, internationally acclaimed composer and saxophonist, and esperanza spalding, bassist, vocalist, both Grammy winners many times over, are transforming a Greek classic with a new voice.
Read articlePhillip B. Williams reforms worlds in ‘Mutiny’
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.
Read articleAsking 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.
Read articleEmily Dickinson opens her garden gate
Emily Dickinson rounds the corner from the orchard to rest from apple picking — and runs straight into us.
Read articleWhere the wild nights are: Emily Dickinson at home
She was 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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