Downtown

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, designer of Writers Read. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write. Maria Williams is a poet from western Massachusetts. She is the winner of The Verse Daily prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of grants and residencies from Jentel, the Vermont Studio Center, PEN, and others. Her work centers around themes of belonging, abandonment, and family. Daniel Lenois: I am a recent graduate from Trinity College, where I studied neuroscience and math. My works, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, often explore the liminality of my relationships and identity. Lindel Hart is a writer and performer whose commissioned adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein premiered in the abandoned First National Bank Building in Greenfield and was subsequently mounted at the Springfield Museums, the Academy of Music Theatre (Northampton), and a 15-performance run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. He is the book cowriter of Savage, a musical…