Wanted: Poets to read their poetry and connect with people

Tuesday, May 10, 6:30 p.m.

Deja BrewPub, 57 Lockes Village Road, Wendell

Doors open for sign ups at 6:30 p.m., five-minute readings start at 7 Featured reader at 8:30 (TBA)

This is a Poetry Open Mic hosted by the ad hoc Poetburo. It is a backroom behind-the-scenes situation of the deja word all over again, presented in thankful appreciation of the original Wendell Word series that had a mighty run in the service of judicious words. Suggested donation: $1 to $4, according to ability Contact:
trishŸcandaceŸillinaŸmikeŸmikemaur@crocker.com More information: dejabrewpub.com

Readings by three memoirists

Wednesday, June 1, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, Vt.

Green Writers Press and Next Stage present M Jackson, author of “While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change,” who will give a talk and slide show on her work in Iceland and she will read from her award-winning memoir. Following M Jackson, Vermont nature writer and former Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, John Elder, will read from his memoir “Picking Up the Flute,” will join Jackson. Rounding out the evening, former Vermont state poet laureate Sydney Lea will read from his new memoir and essay collection, “What’s the Story: Reflections on a Life Grown Long.”

Green Writers Press, a small Brattleboro-based publishing company founded by Dede Cummings in 2014, is dedicated to spreading environmental awareness by publishing authors who proliferate messages of hope and renewal through place-based writing and environmental activism. More information at: nextstagearts.org 802-387-0102 or at www.greenwriterspress.com 802-380-1121

UMass Press Reads at the Jones Library

Jones Library, 43 Amity St., Amherst

Tuesday, May 17, 7 p.m.: Jules Chametzky, author of “Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers: A Cultural Memoir” will read. In this collection of warm and gracious literary portraits, Chametzky shares his recollections of more than 40 notable Jewish writers, from Alfred Kazin to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Brodsky and Amos Oz — to name a few.

Tuesday, May 24, at 7 p.m.: Rud Platt, author of “Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900” will read. Humane urbanism can take many forms, from affordable housing and networks of bike paths to refurbished waterfronts and urban farms. Its goal is to connect people to one another and to bring nature back into the city. Platt’s explorations include Northampton and Holyoke.

For more information, contact Janet Ryan at 413-259-3223.