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Each night during the Juniper Institute, acclaimed faculty and writers in residence read from their new and selected work. Readings are open to the public (suggested donation $5-$10). All readings begin at 7:30 pm, and are held in Bezanson Auditorium, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant Street, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The readings were, in a word, PHENOMENAL. I left each one with fragments of poetry spiraling through my head, energized, entertained, and eager to reflect and write…they opened my mind, bent my ear, and honed my pen toward possibility.  

—’11 participant

Juniper re-lit my creative fire!

—’12 participant

Juniper Institute Reading Series:
June 23-29, 2013

Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New & Selected Poems, and five volumes of nonfiction. Joy Williams is the author of four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, three collections of stories, and Ill Nature, a book of essays.

Stacey Levine is the author of four books of fiction, including The Girl with Brown Fur, Frances Johnson, and My Horse and Other Stories. D.A. Powell is the author of Cocktails, Chronic, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry: The Cloud Corporation and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit. Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction prose, including The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, and Bluets; and four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes and Jane: A Murder.

Matthea Harvey is the author of three poetry collections, including Sad Little Breathing Machine and Modern Life. Anthony Doerr is the author oftwo story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; a novel, About Grace; and the nonfiction book Four Seasons in Rome. Lisa Olstein is the author of three collections of poetry: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, Lost Alphabet, and Little Stranger.

Peter Gizzi is the author of Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape andWeather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and other poems 1987-1992. Noy Holland’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First, What Begins with Bird, and The Spectacle of the Body.

Ben Marcus is the author of the novel The Flame Alphabet, and the story collections The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women, a novel. Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. Betsy Wheeler is the author of the poetry collection Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, and Start Here, a poetry chapbook.

Paul Lisicky is the author of the novels Lawnboy and The Burning House; a memoir, Famous Builder; and Unbuilt Projects, a collection of short prose. DaraWier is the author oftwelve books of poems, including You Good Thing, Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, and Hat on a Pond.