Clark Art Presents Book Talk With Poets

08:14AM / Monday, April 22, 2024Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, April 27 at 4 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a reading and conversation with poets Jessica Fisher and Mary Ruefle in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

The free event is presented in celebration of their new books, "Daywork" and "The Book," respectively.

According to a press release:

Fisher's third book of poetry, "Daywork" (Milkweed Editions, 2024), takes its title from the giornata—the fresco painting term for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day. Fisher is an associate professor of English at Williams College. Mary Ruefle is a prolific writer of poetry and prose, including most recently "The Book" (Wave Books, 2023) and "Dunce" (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She is the poet laureate of Vermont.

Accessible seats available.

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Williamstown Moves Annual Town Meeting Back to Elementary School

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:39PM / Saturday, January 17, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Town Meeting will be held at Williamstown Elementary School for the first time since 2019 after a unanimous vote by the Select Board last Monday night.

The board voted 4-0 to move the annual meeting back to the Church Street school after it was held at Mount Greylock Regional School the last four years.

Twice, in 2020 and 2021, the meeting was held outdoors at Williams College's Weston Field during the height of the pandemic.

Technically, the 2022 meeting was scheduled for WES, but by the time it was convened, everyone who attended knew that the first order of business would be a motion to adjourn to a couple of weeks later at Mount Greylock to take advantage of the larger gym.

That gym was home to the meeting the next three years.

Board members discussed whether to move the May meeting back to WES and closer to the center of the town's population made sense.

"It would be nice to get a younger generation participating," Shana Dixon said. "A two-minute walk down the street as opposed to an eight-minute drive to Mount Greylock makes a difference, a big difference."

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