Tag: Jeffery Amherst Bookshop

• Collected Poets Series, Nov. Edition

  This Thursday, the Collected Poets Series resumes its normal first-Thursday-of-the-month schedule with the readings of poets Wyn Cooper and Amy Dryansky. Wyn Cooper has published three books of poems: The Country of Here Below, The Way Back, and Postcards from the Interior, as well as a chapbook, Secret Address. His new book of poems, Chaos…

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  November 4, 2008

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  Amy Dryansky, Baron Wormser, books, Collected Poets Series, Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, Jim Schley, poetry, Wyn Cooper

• The Bookshop & CPS, Special Edition.

  This Thursday, Oct. 30th, at 7:30 pm, we’ll be hosting a special edition of the Collected Poets Series, a partial fundraiser for the Mohawk Arts and Education Council. Baron Wormser, former poet laureate of Maine, will read from his latest collection of new and selected poems, Scattered Chapters; Jim Schley will read from his newest…

  mariegauthier

  October 27, 2008

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  Baron Wormser, books, Collected Poets Series, Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, poetry, weeks-long wakes

• And so it goes…

  It’s official: the Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, my place of employment for the past 10+ years, will close its doors within the next few weeks. This economic climate became the perfect storm we couldn’t survive: with the confluence of the credit crunch (no financing for potential buyers), the changing paradigm of the book & textbook business,…

  mariegauthier

  October 23, 2008

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  independent bookstores, Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, the waning of culture & the intellectual marketplac