Tickets to this event must be purchased through the Amherst Cinema. $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. To reserve your spot, please visit: http://amherstcinema.org/?q=films-and-events%2Fmassachusetts-poetry-festival

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Poetry Reading by James Tate & Ellen Doré Watson  & James Haug. Join us for the Western Massachusetts launch of the 2nd annual state-wide Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Simultaneous readings around the Commonwealth on Thursday evening will ring in two days of festivities based in Lowell on October 16 & 17. Amherst’s own James Tate — winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award,nd the William Carlos Williams Award, and author of over twenty books of poetry and prose — and Ellen Doré Watson—author of three collections of poetry— and  James Haug  whose new book, LEGEND OF THE RECENT PAST, is recently out---will read from new and selected work.

Presented by the Going Public Contemporary Lit Series, a project of the University of Massachusetts Juniper Initiative, UMass Fine Arts Center, and Amherst Cinema Arts Center.