Gallery of Readers presents David Gillham & Jonathan Klate reading from their work. Sunday, December 15, 2024, at 4 PM
Florence Civic Center 90 Park Street Florence, Massachusetts
Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome!
For those who can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available from 3:45 p.m. EDT on the day of the reading. (Be aware no admittance to the Zoom session after 4:05 p.m. for security purposes). Contact Robin or Carol — or one of the readers — for secure access to the zoom link.
David Gillham
David R. Gillham is the New York Times bestselling author of City of Women. He is also the author of Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank, Shadows of Berlin, and the Audible original, Alone with the Stars: A Story of Amelia Earhart. He studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California before turning to fiction. After moving to New York City, Gillham spent more than a decade in the book business, and now lives with his family in western Massachusetts.
Jonathan Klate
Jonathan Klate’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in regional and national publications including Tikkun magazine. His op-ed columns on a wide range of public interest subjects are published in newspapers and online zines around the country, and he was for years a featured columnist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. His most recent collection of poetry is The Wondrous Improbability of Everything… andYet the Necessity of Love. Dr. Klate has been a practitioner of traditional acupuncture and Chinese medicine for nearly 50 years. He is the author of a classic book in this field, The Tao of Acupuncture, and many articles in The Journal of Traditional Acupuncture.
Gallery of Readers presents Judy Lewis & Rebecca Rice reading from their work. Sunday, November 17, 2024, at 4 PM
Florence Civic Center 90 Park Street Florence, Massachusetts
Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome!
For those who can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available from 3:45 p.m. EDT on the day of the reading. (Be aware no admittance to the Zoom session after 4:05 p.m. for security purposes). Contact Robin or Carol — or one of the readers — for secure access to the zoom link.
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis moved to Northampton from Phoenix, Arizona three years ago, at the beginning of winter during the pandemic. She started writing poetry as a way to make sense of this experience. A visual artist, she has also had a long and varied career in healthcare as a Nurse Practitioner and in community public health. Of her 45 years in nursing she says, “My biggest regret is that I never wrote any of it down.”
Rebecca Rice
Rebecca Rice is the author of A Time to Mourn: One Woman’s Journey through Widowhood, referenced in several studies on memoir and grieving. She has published essays and articles in The New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Adventure Magazine, The Hampshire Gazette, and The Berkshire Eagle. She teaches Writing and Literature at Springfield Technical Community College. She is currently working on revisions for a memoir about divorce. She belongs to four writing groups. Her favorite quote is from Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Gallery of Readers presents Don Wheelock and Janine Roberts reading from their work. Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 4 PM
Florence Civic Center 90 Park Street Florence, Massachusetts
Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome!
For those who can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available from 3:45 p.m. EDT on the day of the reading. (Be aware no admittance to the Zoom session after 4:05 p.m. for security purposes). Contact Robin or Carol — or one of the readers — for secure access to the zoom link.
Janine Roberts
Janine Roberts, Professor Emerita, UMass, Amherst and former President, American Family Therapy Academy has authored 4 books including The Body Alters (chapbook with Slate Roof Press), others with HarperCollins and Norton Press, and over 70 personal essays and articles. An editor of four different journals, she has edited (in varied settings), thousands of papers, book chapters, dissertations, and poems. Her most recent op-ed in the Hampshire Gazette is entitled, Unraveling My Own White Supremacy. A native of Washington State, relocated to Leverett, MA via Kuwait, Mexico, Ghana, and other countries, she works with community groups on projects such as the Leverett Poetry Boxes, the Native Names boxes for Kestrel Trust, and most recently with students at Leverett Elementary on Flora and Fauna boxes out on hiking trails. Her creative programs often include community workshops on writing poetry. Her current favorite role is as Nene, grandmother to Cadence.
Don Wheelock
Composer Donald Wheelock, Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor Emeritus of Music at Smith College, began writing poems in his twenties, often for the purpose of setting them to music. Many of his poems soon declared their independence from that purpose, however. In the last few years he has revived some of those early poems to add to the many he has recently written, successfully submitting them to publications that welcome formal poetry. His chapbook In the Sea of Dreams is availablethrough Gallery of Readers Press. It’s Hard Enough to Fly, his first full-length book of poems, was published by Kelsay Books in 2022. His second full-length book, With Nothing but a Nod, appeared last spring from David Robert Books. Wheelock’s poems are reflective formal structures depicting landscapes, familiar experiences, and everyday encounters from the vantage point of a man later in life. Fanciful observations of the workings of the natural world rub up against memories of problematic human interaction. Words and music mingle here. Wheelock lives with his wife Anne in an old house on the edge of a hayfield in Whately, Massachusetts.
Gallery of Readers presents Doug Anderson and Rebecca Hart Olander reading from their work. Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 4 PM
Florence Civic Center 99 Park Street Florence, Massachusetts
Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome!
For those who can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available from 3:45 p.m. EDT on the day of the reading. (Be aware no admittance to the Zoom session after 4:05 p.m. for security purposes). Contact Robin or Carol — or one of the readers — for secure access to the zoom link.
Doug Anderson
Doug Anderson’s first full length book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His third book, Horse Medicine, was published by Barrow Street, and his most recent book, Undress, She Said, was published by Four Way Books. Poems from these books have won two Pushcart Prizes, a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council. He won the Emily Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has published poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Field, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and many other literary journals. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009.
Rebecca Hart Olander
Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry and collaborative visual and written work has appeared in print, online, and in multiple anthologies. A winner of the Women’s National Book Association Poetry Award, her books include Dressing the Wounds (dancing girl press, 2019) and Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), an Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist and a Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must-Read” selection. Rebecca has taught writing at Amherst and Smith colleges, Westfield State University, and through Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, and she works with poets in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press.
