Join us for an inaugural Open Mic in partnership with the Straw Dog Writers Guild featuring a pop-up coffee truck from Franklin County’s Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee! To celebrate the Guild’s fifteenth anniversary, Straw Dog invites fifteen writers to read three-minute excerpts from a range of genres, spanning poetry, prose, and fiction. Interested in participating? […]
The Literacy Network (LitNet) presents a live storytelling event inspired by the theme What This Place Makes Me. Throughout the summer, the storytellers — all of whom are immigrants working on their English with LitNet — will be coached by Sheela Clary through a series of storytelling workshops. In this culminating event, each storyteller will take […]
Wharton on Wednesday returns for a five-month run! Join us at the Terrace Café on the first Wednesday of the month, June-October, to hear quintessential Edith Wharton short stories brought to life by local actors. Arrive early to enjoy refreshments from the Café, open 4:00 - 5:30 pm. In August, Anne Undeland reads "The Rembrandt," […]
Featuring live music, readings and performances, a resource fair, book exchanges, and food trucks, Community Day will be the culmination of our summer-long program lineup celebrating the vibrant, multicultural diversity of the Berkshires. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 11am: Kicking off the day on the main stage will be Latin Grammy Award-winning children’s book author and musician, […]
Conclude The Mount's Community Day with a free, outdoor poetry reading on the Dell stage behind the Stable. Bring your own chair or blanket. Not for the faint of heart, WordXWord’s Poets Creating Conversation throws out a single word/idea and asks poets to circle around. Pre-registration is not required for this program. WordxWord is […]
Featuring A Taste of Honey and The Great Ball Game (Storey Publishing, 2022) Join Rebecca Sheir, host of WBUR's Circle Round, for a live reading of two colorfully illustrated folktales adapted from the award-winning public-radio podcast. She'll be accompanied by live music played by Circle Round composer Eric Shimelonis. The reading will be followed by […]
Follow along as poets offer an exploration of The Mount’s grounds and selected works in the Sculpture at The Mount exhibition. Using a sculpture and the environment as prompts, poets […]
Join us to experience the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips, who will read from his latest poetry collection, Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), […]
Wharton on Wednesday returns for a five-month run! Join us at the Terrace Café on the first Wednesday of the month, June-October, to hear quintessential Edith Wharton short stories brought to life by local actors. Arrive early to enjoy refreshments from the Café, open 4:00 - 5:30 pm. In September, Ryan Winkles reads "The House […]
Join us for a free, outdoor poetry reading on the Dell stage behind the Stable. Bring your own chair or blanket. Not for the faint of heart, WordXWord’s Poets Creating Conversation throws out a single word/idea and asks poets to respond. This month we're asking poets to linger, loiter, or perhaps even reside in DWELL. […]
In 1930s Paris, American novelists Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield were unlikely friends. She was 34 years his senior, he was a Midwestern farmer, and both were vocal about their […]
Join the Straw Dog Writers Guild to celebrate their 15th anniversary with a lively panel discussion featuring Guild co-founders and members. Highlighted are readings by novelist Michael Jerome Plunkett and […]