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 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 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 …
Read articleWriters 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 […]
Read articleArtists form and perform Rites of Passage
Women have come from around the country to perform here tonight — in Rites of Passage, musicians, visual artists, writers, healers are creating a ritual and a refuge, and I’m waiting to walk in.
Read articleFive 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.
Read articleSummertime and the poets are reading — #Berkshireweekend
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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