EVENTS & READINGS

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Open Field Press
is celebrating the launch of three new books of poetry!
Friday, November 5
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Doors open at 6:30pm for a casual meet and greet with the authors; reading begins promptly at 7pm
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​This event is SOLD OUT

The books and poets featured are: adrift, a rowboat, by Trish Crapo; When We Were All Still Alive, by Bill O'Connell; and Racing Heaven, by Annie Woodhull.

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READING: Poetry and the Arts: A Poetry Reading
Group 18 
This first A.P.E.-sponsored poetry reading at 33 Hawley Street will be offered by a group of distinguished Valley poets who have been meeting weekly to respond to each other’s work for over twenty-five years. Readers include Doug Anderson, Bob Coles, Rosalyn Driscoll, Paul Jacobsen, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman, Rich Michelson and Anne Woodhull. 
 
Named affectionately (if not poetically) Group 18 for the number of the home where they first gathered, the group was founded in Northampton in 1986 by Linda Gregg and Jim Finnegan, with Jack Gilbert as one of its original and long-standing mentors. 
 
The anthology Open Field: Poems from Group 18, published in 2011, celebrates the writing of past and present members of the group. Other books by members of the group will be available for purchase following the reading: Rich Michelson, Doug Anderson, Anne Woodhull, Margaret Lloyd, and Rosalyn Driscoll. 
 
The poets will read poems related to various forms of art and performance to honor the three art partners at Hawley Street (Available Potential Enterprises (APE), Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA), and Northampton Community Television (NCTV). Refreshments will follow the reading. 
Sunday, March 24:  5 pm
APE@33Hawley, Northampton MA
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​Book Launch at Smith College Poetry Center, Wright Hall, Smith College
Margaret Lloyd (author of Forged Light, Open Field Press) will be launching her fourth collection of poems, Travelling on My Own Errands:  Voices of Women from The Mabinogi. This reading is sponsored by the Smith College English Department.  In addition to reading poems from the collection, Margaret will be telling parts of the medieval stories on which the poems are based and showing photographs of places in Wales where the tales take place.
Wednesday, April 12th, 7:30 p.m.

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Poetry reading at Springfield College
William Simpson Fine Arts Series
Missy Marie Montgomery and Henry Lyman reading from their recently published books
Cleveland E and Phyllis B. Dodge Room, Flynn Campus Union
Springfield College, Springfield, MA
November 18, 7:30 PM
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Double Book Launch at APE Arts
126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Celebrating the launch of their new poetry collections with a reading, signing and reception
Henry Lyman: The Land Has its Say
Missy-Marie Montgomery: Half-Life of Passion
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 7:30 PM

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Margaret Lloyd and Judith Gordon
Poetry and Piano collaboration
Townhouse Conference Room
Springfield College
263 Alden Street, Springfield, MA 01109

Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

This event is the debut of a poetry/piano collaboration between Margaret Lloyd and Judith Gordon.  A reading of Lloyd’s poems from her newly published poetry collection, Forged Light, will be interlaced with a performance of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, opus 28.

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Double book launch at APE Arts 
126 Main Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Celebrating the launch of their new poetry collections with a reading, signing and reception
Rosalyn Driscoll: Conjured from Dust
Margaret Lloyd: Forged Light
Thursday November 7, 2013, 7:00 PM

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Poetry Reading at Mocha Maya's 
47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA  
Featuring Trish Crapo, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman and Rich Michelson. 
This is a  celebratory reading to mark Group 18's 25 years together and to introduce the group's  new anthology, Open Field, to Franklin County.
Thursday, April 18th at  7 p.m, 2013

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Providence Public Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Margaret Lloyd will be reading at the New England Poetry and Art Gala at the historic Providence Public Library, as one of the poets published in the The Loft Anthology: New Poetry and Art. Foreword and introduction were written by Mairead Byrne, professor of poetry at RISD, and Barbara K. Fisher, author of Museum Meditations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry.
June 6, 6-9 PM, 2013

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AWP Annual Conference and Book Fair, Boston, MA March 6-9, 2013; Friday March 8, Group 18: 25 Years of Poetry, Workshop, and Community. 
Margaret Lloyd, Doug Anderson, Richard Michelson, Anne Woodhull, Bill O’Connell
Group 18, a poetry group based in Northampton, Massachusetts, founded originally by Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, and Jim Finnegan, began meeting weekly over twenty-five years ago. Many of its early members are still active. This past year, to celebrate the group’s 25th anniversary, Open Field Press published an anthology of its members, past and present. This event includes a reading of poets in the anthology, a discussion of Group 18’s methodology, and the group’s contribution to the Northampton area.

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Mishi-Maya-Gat: Spoken Word and Music Series
Thursday January 17, 2013
Music at 7 PM by Nick Cutroneo
Poetry at 8 PM by James Finnegan and Bill O'Connell
MCC on Main
Manchester Community College
903 Main Street
Manchester CT 06040
Free and open to the public. For more information and directions: www.manchestercc.edu/faculty/spoken.php

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Springfield College Faculty Reading
Missy-Marie Montgomery and Margaret Lloyd will be reading  poetry in this event which also features five other Springfield College faculty members reading fiction and creative non-fiction:  Justine Dymond, Allie Eaton, Dennis Gildea, Becky Lartigue, and Rick Paar.
Wednesday,  October 24, 7:30 PM, 2012
Bookstore, William B.  Flynn Student Union
Springfield College
263 Alden Street
Springfield, MA 01109

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GREENFIELD ANNUAL WORD FESTIVAL
Reading from Open Field: Poems from Group 18
Members of Group 18 will be participating in this 3rd annual festival that features poets and spoken word artists at multiple venues in Greenfield. The festival will run in conjunction with the 4th Annual Brick + Mortar International Video Festival, making a lively night of the arts in downtown Greenfield. 
Friday October 12, 6:30 PM, 2012
All Souls Church
399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA 01301
Doug Anderson
Trish Crapo
Paul Jacobs
Margaret Lloyd
Henry Lyman
Bill O'Connell

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Reading at Greenfield Grille
Saturday, October 13, 6:30 PM, 2012
30 Federal Street, Greenfield, MA 01301
Doug Anderson
Trish Crapo
Contact: 
Paul Richmond
Human Error Publishing
paul@hows4allages.com
978-544-8784
For more information on Brick + Mortar: http://greenfieldvideofest.org