Poems for a Small Town: The Amherst Live Poetry Prize Finalists
Amherst Live is an every-so-often “live magazine show.” In it, host and executive director Oliver Broudy, an author and former Paris Review managing editor, presents a series of interviews, talks, and performances. The idea is to look more closely at the big ideas...
Moving On: Springfield’s Performance Project and First Generation are losing their home.
It’s the kind of story we will, inevitably, hear again. When any big development imposes a new footprint on an already-established area, people get displaced and property changes hands. Five Taylor Street, in Morgan Square, where Springfield nonprofit arts...
CD Shorts: The Gaslight Tinkers
The Gaslight Tinkers (independent) Lots of experiments in genre-crossing turn into one-trick ponies or big messes. The Valley’s Gaslight Tinkers avoid both traps. The group brings together some good players: Zoe Darrow on fiddle; Peter Siegel on guitar, mandolin, and...
The Ambiguous Basement
Take a look at Tempo Maps, the new book of poems from Greenfield’s Daniel Hales, and you quite literally won’t know where to start. That’s because the book has two covers. Whichever way you start reading, you’ll face another challenge in the very middle of the book:...E-Edition
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