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 […]
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 […]
WordXWord returns to The Mount with dozens of poets collaborating to create and perform A Very Large Poem. Created by stitching together dozens of short poems by poets ranging in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]