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Massachusetts Poetry Festival: Western Massachusetts Launch
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Thursday, October 15
Amherst Cinema   7:00 pm
Tickets: $10; $5 for students and seniors. Online at click text and at the Amherst Cinema box office.

Join us for the Western Massachusetts launch of the 2nd annual state-wide Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Simultaneous readings around the Commonwealth on Thursday evening will ring in two days of festivities based in Lowell on October 16 & 17. James Tate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award, and author of over twenty books of poetry and prose, Ellen Doré Watson, author of three books and poems, and James Haug, author of five books, will read from new and selected work. Presented in collaboration with the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center and the UMass Fine Arts Center.

 

Presented in collaboration with the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center and the UMass Fine Arts Center.
Amherst Cinema Arts Center

Press Release in pdf format
 
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