Poetry Reading With Carol Frost

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Inkberry will present an evening of poetry with Carol Frost, Abbot Cutler and Peter Filkins, Saturday, April 5th at 7:00 pm, in Murdock Hall, at MCLA, North Adams. The reading will be followed by a signing and reception.

Carol Frost is the award-winning author of nine collections of poems, including Pure (1994), Venus & Don Juan (1996), Love & Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000). Frost's most recent books, I Will Say Beauty (February, 2003) and The Queen's Desertion (May, 2006) both were published by Northwestern University Press. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes (with nominations every year for the last sixteen years), and magazine prizes from Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner.

She was a poetry editor for the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her poems and essays appear in such places as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly. She has taught for the MFA programs at Washington University, Wichita State University, and Warren Wilson. Frost serves as Writer-in-Residence at Hartwick College. She also directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop. Also reading will be local poets Abbot Cutler and Peter Filkins. Abbot Cutler has published two books of poetry: 1843 Rebecca 1847 (Rowan Tree Press) and The Dog Isn't Going Anywhere (Mad River Press). His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies What Have You Lost edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Under One Roof and Holding True, both edited by Barry Sternlieb of Mad River Press.

He teaches at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and lives in Ashfield, MA. Peter Filkins has published two volumes of poetry, What She Knew (1998) and After Homer (2002) and has translated Ingeborg Bachmann's The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, as well as the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA. Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate writing and reading.

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Former Harry's Supermarket Under Construction for Restaurant

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Construction is underway to transform the former Harry's Supermarket into a restaurant

Late last month, the Conservation Commission greenlit some tree pruning on the property. New windows and a new door can be seen in the front of the building. 

"It's a substantial renovation that's currently underway here," Brent White of White Engineering said, speaking on behalf of the applicant and owner, Huajie Zhu. 

A fire gutted the longtime Wahconah Street supermarket in 2023, and the following year, Zhu purchased the property for $460,000 two years ago to build a restaurant with hibachi in the existing footprint of the more than 100-year-old building. 

White explained that the project has been ongoing for over a year, and the Community Development Board granted the property a waiver to reduce the minimum required number of parking spaces so that additional spaces aren't needed.  

He noted that, looking at the site plan, there is very little room to do so. A mirror will be installed near the sharp turn on Bel Air Avenue to alleviate traffic concerns. 

Pruning will be done on trees in the southeast corner of the existing paved parking lot, as a number of branches are hanging over. The new owners also intend to patch, sealcoat, and re-stripe the parking lot. 

A fire tore through the building less than an hour after the supermarket closed for the day three years ago. An automatic sprinkler system is required for the new use. 

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