Issue 02 contributor Phillip Lopate and nine grads of Bennington College’s MFA program in Creative Writing (including Dispatches contributor Julia Lichtblau and editor Jennifer Acker) will read at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, an exhibition/performance space in Cobble Hill, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:30-9:30 pm. Wine and book sales will follow. The event is one of an evolving roadshow of readings by established and emerging writers from the Bennington program.

“Commons” at Bennington College

An event at Newton Free Library, in Newton Center, MA, at Houghton Garden, the subject of contributions to Issue 02 from Daniel Jackson and Sarah Luria. 

A panel discussion in Amherst College’s Frost Library with editors for The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, and Vanity Fair, moderated by Jen Acker. The event takes place as part of Amherst College’s series, “The Future of the Humanities in the Age of Technics.”

A celebration of local literary magazines, including Agni, Ploughshares, Post Road, Redivider, The Common, and The Harvard Review. Katia Kapovich, author of the short story “The Smuggler” to appear in our upcoming Issue 02, will be reading!

We’re hosting a reading on August 17th at Rocky Sullivan’s (Brooklyn, NY).  Come and enjoy an evening featuring readings by Brook Willensky-Lanford, Maura Candela, and Maria Terrone.  The event starts at 7 PM and is free and open to the public.

Join The Common at the Greenfield Arts Collective at Greenfield Energy Park in Greenfield, MA, between 2 and 9 PM on July 30th.  Enjoy a live band, watch one-act plays, and listen to readings from a number of authors, including our contributor Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller!