GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Friends of Great Barrington Libraries and the Board of Library Trustees invites the community to a free poetry reading at the Mason Library on Saturday, April 25, 2025, 4 -6 pm. 

 

Poets Kate Colby and Ann Lauterbach will read from their works. 

 

Wine, cider and food provided by the Friends of Great Barrington Libraries.

 

About the poets

 

Kate Colby's most recent book is "Paradoxx," published last year. It was listed as one of the five most notable of 2025 by Literary Hub, as well as one of CLMP Members' Most Celebrated Books of the year. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, where she was a fellow in 2018. She is also a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center. Her work has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Harper's, Lana Turner, Literary Hub, The Nation, The Paris Review and Poetry.

 

Ann Lauterbach is the author of eleven poetry collections, several chapbooks and three works of prose, including The "Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience." "Her Or to Begin Again" was nominated for a National Book Award. Her most recent book "Door" (2023), was a finalist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. She's received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the New York Council of the Arts. She was co-chair of Writing in Bard College's MFA program from 1992 to 2020, where she continues to teach as the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature.

 

The OtherWords reading series, co-curated by Michael Gottlieb and Evelyn Reilly, is sponsored by Friends of Great Barrington Libraries and the Board of Library Trustees. 

 

Mason Library is located on 231 Main Street, Great Barrington