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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 offer new ways of “seeing” what is before us. Pre-registration is not required for this program. Meet at the bistro tables behind the Stable. The […]
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), a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that’s based on human memory. This reading is presented by the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 conflicting political views. Even so, the two expatriates formed an intimate bond that transcended differences. Both loved gardening, travel, writing, and renovating historic homes—fodder for […]
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 poet Julia Thacker, both alumni of the Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Emerging Writers Residency, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary. In September, Plunkett's debut […]
Join Community Access to the Arts at The Mount for a reading of poetry and prose from the CATA Writers’ Workshop. Through heartfelt, thought-provoking, and humorous work, CATA writers with disabilities express their unique perspectives and reveal common experiences that connect us all. Join us for a fun and free evening of CATA writing! Space […]
Join us for a free, outdoor poetry reading at the bistro area behind the Stable. The theme is RED HERRING. WordXWord’s Poets Creating Conversation throws out a single word/idea and asks […]