Join the Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00pm for Writers Night Out/In Open Mic on Zoom with featured readers are Karen Skolfield and Rio Santos. Registration is required. Register HERE. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 – 48 hours containing information about joining the meeting.Karen Skolfield is the poet laureate of Northampton for 2019-2022. Her book Battle Dress (W. W. Norton, 2019) won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; her book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at UMass Amherst. www.karenskolfield.com
Rio Santos is the Youth Poet Laureate of Northampton. She is a high school student at Northampton High School.
