Writers Read is 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 a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.
Amy Gordon’s poems have appeared in The Amsterdam Review, Ekphrastic Review, The Massachusetts Review, and other journals. Her chapbook, Leaf Town, published in 2026, was winner of the Slate Roof Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Gill and directs an after-school theater program.
Cheryl Dukes: Past performance is irrelevant to future earnings. Curious, persistent and charming with chutzpah requires death as a fact of life while choosing to live … Active voice; action verb and laughing our (my) ass off despite the shusshing and the hushing … all the way to the other side of OtherWise … with love as an action … act I on; quest I on. Woop. Woop.
JuPong Lin is an independent artist, practice-led researcher, writer and cultural worker who dances with horseshoe crabs and makes ceremony with cranes. Her mission is to hospice the dying colonized world, serving as death doula working with arts and poetics in the emergent futures of interspecies co-becoming. JuPong’s poetry and socially-engaged art projects honor beloved heartplaces and shift the paradigm of colonialism and conquest and seed new kinds of stories that live beyond the “one world” and proliferate in pluriverses (many worlds) of possibilities. JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024. She earned her PhD in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England and currently works as a narrative coach for public health organizations in Massachusetts. JuPong’s first play, Phoenix in the HolyLand, aims to contribute to global peace movements working to end ecocide and genocide (omnicide). JuPong’s poems have been published in several Writing the Land anthologies and academic essays are included in Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education: Narratives Toward Wholeness.
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