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Presented in partnership with the Amherst Business Improvement District, Writers Reading is a curated series featuring local authors. In our next installment of the reading series, join us for a line-up curated by featured writer Michael Mercurio. Mercurio and fellow authors JJ Starr-McClain, Kirun Kapur, and Patrick Donnelly will share selections from their work.A poet, editor, and occasional critic, Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, interviews, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Thrush, The Common, Cream City Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Sugar House Review, Lily Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Michael is the founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, where established and emerging poets read together monthly on Zoom. In addition, he serves on the planning committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, held each September at Emily Dickinson's house, and he is an instructor for the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. You can find out more about Michael at poetmercurio.com.
This event is free to attend and open to all. See additional author bios at https://www.umass.edu/downtown/news-events.
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108 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002
