The LAVA Center is excited to start a new year of Writers Read, a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work followed by time for the audience to join with the writers for a talkback. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.
Trish Crapo, Mindy Haskins Rogers and Lee Desrosiers will open Writers Read 2024 on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 7 pm. This series is facilitated by Lindy Whiton, a member of LAVA, and pulls from several different communities of writers throughout the local area. We are extremely lucky to draw from an abundance of talent. The year’s calendar does bring in a few outside writers who agreed to travel. Watch LAVA’s website for future readers. We are excited to start our new season.
$5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture)
Lee (Lori) Desrosiers’ latest book of poems is Keeping Planes in the Air (Salmon Poetry). They edit Naugatuck River Review, a narrative poetry journal, and Wordpeace.co. Desrosiers teaches poetry in Lesley University’s MFA program and English Comp at Westfield State.
Trish Crapo, a writer, photographer and collage artist, lives and works on an organic fig farm in Leyden. She has a full length collection of poems, adrift, a rowboat (Open Field Press); a chapbook, Walk through Paradise Backwards (Slate Roof Press); and individual poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Osiris, Cable Street, and other journals. Her photographs and collage have been exhibited across New England; at The New School in New York City; in Moscow and Tula, Russia; and in Havana, Cuba.
Mindy Haskins Rogers is a nonfiction writer based in western Mass. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Her work-in-progress is a memoir about the years she lived precariously, seeking education, opportunity, and adventure after running away from her working-class home at fifteen.
