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📚✨ Join us on October 8th for a fantastic Mass Book Awards Longlist Reading at UMass Amherst’s Orchard Hill Pavilion! Enjoy readings from the amazing longlisted authors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction: Laura Cresté, Patrick Donnelly, Emily Everett, Mia McKenzie, Nora Claire Miller, and Michelle Young. Plus, you can snag their books from Amherst Books!

The event is free and open to everyone, so bring your friends and get ready for a literary afternoon! Just remember to dress for the outdoors. 🌳

📍 Orchard Hill Pavilion, 154 Orchard Hill Drive, Amherst. Park in Lot 49!

🔗 Link to Register in Linktree.

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📚✨ Join us on October 8th for a fantastic Mass Book Awards Longlist Reading at UMass Amherst’s Orchard Hill Pavilion! Enjoy readings from the amazing longlisted authors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction: Laura Cresté, Patrick Donnelly, Emily Everett, Mia McKenzie, Nora Claire Miller, and Michelle Young. Plus, you can snag their books from Amherst Books!

The event is free and open to everyone, so bring your friends and get ready for a literary afternoon! Just remember to dress for the outdoors. 🌳

📍 Orchard Hill Pavilion, 154 Orchard Hill Drive, Amherst. Park in Lot 49!

🔗 Link to Register in Linktree.

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First class for me today. I’ve been teaching for years and still, it always gives me nerves. The best part of my work is receiving books from the people I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over all these years. Mark’s book is his first and it’s stunning. This might be Dottie‘s 10th book? I’m loving it. Excited to bring them in to workshop today. Congratulations all around! @markkbias @styleisjoy

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📚✨ Join us on October 8th for a fantastic Mass Book Awards Longlist Reading at UMass Amherst’s Orchard Hill Pavilion! Enjoy readings from the amazing longlisted authors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction: Laura Cresté, Patrick Donnelly, Emily Everett, Mia McKenzie, Nora Claire Miller, and Michelle Young. Plus, you can snag their books from Amherst Books!

The event is free and open to everyone, so bring your friends and get ready for a literary afternoon! Just remember to dress for the outdoors. 🌳

📍 Orchard Hill Pavilion, 154 Orchard Hill Drive, Amherst. Park in Lot 49!

🔗 Link to Register in Linktree.

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This annual reading series kicks off next week; see you there!💕📚🦄⚡️

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My shortest poem is a name
Childish nature is her fame

Not a star but a bloom
Not a castle but a room

Priosend apocalypse in her gaze
Was Dancing deer in a maze

Qibla changes when she walk
Angels gather when she talk

Spring burns when she laughs
Realms shakes when she coughs

Was the beauty of thousand frames
Was the master of several games

Childish nature is her fame
My shortest poem is a name

(Zulqarnain)

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Today’s conversation with Jordy Rosenberg is many things but at its heart it explores the question of what it means to write revolutionary literature (or as Trotsky would call it “October literature”). Whether we are talking about trans horror or a Marxist surreal, the originating violence of early capitalism or writing toward utopian horizons; whether we are getting granular on the level of craft and form or looking more broadly at the role of art and artists, the question of how our writing can lend itself toward conjuring an elsewhere and otherwise is, I think, the animating force behind it all.

Jordy’s provocative choices in his latest novel Night Night Fawn bring these questions urgently to the fore as it centers and is narrated by someone whose worldview Jordy strongly opposes. Night Night Fawn is an opioid-addled, deathbed rant by one Barbara Rosenberg, a transphobic Zionist woman modeled after Jordy’s own mother. Barbara holds court not only on her life’s disappointments, but on Marxism and gender delivered through her cracked lens. All while her greatest disappointment, her transgender son, who may or may not want to kill her, visits her at her bedside. What opportunities, challenges and dangers does this approach create for a writer with revolutionary aims? How can looking back at originary violences, within a family or a nation or an ideology, be a liberatory act? And when confronting structural or familial violence, what is the role of humor and satire? Perhaps it is best summed up by Book Page in its starred review when they say Night Night Fawn is “comedic fiction as political firepower.” Don't miss this one! Link in my bio
#jordyrosenberg #nightnightfawn #confessionsofthefox

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join us TONIGHT to make our president’s daddy issues your problem 😌

we will be doing a thematic exploration of fatherhood as a poetic theme through the ages — covering biblical and mythological foundations into the modern day in record time.

hope to see you there :)

📍holdsworth hall, rm 305
⏰6:30-8 PM

#umass #umassamherst #poetryclubumass

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the moment you’ve all been waiting for (& DMing us about) 👀

this wednesday (02/18) is our SPRING SEMESTER OPEN NIGHT 🎙️

this wondrous occasion is for all — whether you want to share your writing, read off your favorite poems, or just listen and vibe along!

hope to see you there :)

📍holdsworth hall, rm 305
⏰6:30-8 PM

#umass #umassamherst #poetryclubumass #openmic

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hear ye hear ye 📣💕

this wednesday (02/11) marks not only the first meeting of our semester, but the incredible annual LOVER’S NIGHT!

hosted by our gorgeous VP, lizzy, and our amazing treasurer, mia, we will be writing poetry and love letters in the form of some beautiful valentines 💌

hope to see you there!

📍holdsworth hall, rm 305
⏰6:30-8 PM

#umass #umassamherst #poetryclubumass

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English alum Robert Casper, MFA '04, has been named President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets!

Casper says, "I am eager to invite all Americans to connect to the living art of poetry, support poets as they shape the language of our time, and advocate for poetry’s critical role in our collective future."

Learn more on our website: https://www.umass.edu/english/news/academy-american-poets-names-robert-casper-mfa-04-national-leader-poetry-and-literary

#UMassEnglish #UMassHFA #UMassAmherst @umasshfa @umass @umassmfa Robert Casper.

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Join us one week from today for a reading by @umassmfa Professor Sabina Murray. Her prolific work in the genre of horror and beyond has been well-recognized. If you are at all interested in the art of fiction, you'd better not miss this talk!

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