Amherst Lit Walk
Join us on Saturday, April 11 for a stroll through Downtown Amherst as we celebrate all things literary!
The Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Amherst Business Improvement District are partnering with downtown businesses and organizations to provide a day of author readings, poetry, local history, giveaways, and more, in celebration of Amherst's rich literary community.
Pick up a map at participating locations. All events are free to attend (though donations/purchases are welcome). Collect at least 4 stickers at events throughout the day, and hand in your completed map to any MCB staff to be entered into a raffle to win some bookish goodies!
Full schedule available online at Amherst Lit Walk. See you there!
Join us on Saturday, April 11 for a stroll through Downtown Amherst as we celebrate all things literary!
The Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Amherst Business Improvement District are partnering with downtown businesses and organizations to provide a day of author readings, poetry, local history, giveaways, and more, in celebration of Amherst's rich literary community.
Pick up a map at participating locations. All events are free to attend (though donations/purchases are welcome). Collect at least 4 stickers at events throughout the day, and hand in your completed map to any MCB staff to be entered into a raffle to win some bookish goodies!
Full schedule available online at Amherst Lit Walk. See you there!
Lineup
“The Road from Belhaven”: A Reading by Margot Livesey
“The Marvelous Now” Storytime with Angela DiTerlizzi followed by family yoga
"Night Night Fawn": A Reading by Jordy Rosenberg
"Vesuvius at Home": A Poetry Workshop Responding to Emily Dickinson and Objects
Workshop: Poetry of Motion
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Highlights
- 8 hours 30 minutes
- all ages
- In person
Location
Amherst
35 S Pleasant St
Amherst, MA 01002
How do you want to get there?
Agenda
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Dickinson’s Ceaseless Sympathy: A Tour of West Cemetery
Explore Amherst’s historic West Cemetery through the lens of Emily Dickinson’s condolence letters with guide Sarah Zureick-Brown, a trustee of the Amherst Historical Society and the creator of The Silent Sod Substack. During this 75 minute tour, you’ll meet Dickinson’s local contemporaries to whom she expressed grief and solace in her letters, and you’ll also be introduced to some of Amherst’s other literary legends. Location: Meet at 45 Boltwood Walk (Amherst History Center) Note: The distance covered will be roughly one mile with some uneven terrain. There is no seating available at the cemetery.
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"The Marvelous Now” Storytime with Angela DiTerlizzi followed by family yoga!
Join local bestselling author Angela DiTerlizzi in a special storytime with her latest book The Marvelous Now. This calming companion to the bestselling The Magical Yet and The Curious Why is a marvelous introduction for young readers to mindfulness and keeping your cool. Following the storytime there will be a family yoga session to practice some of these mindfulness concepts with local family yoga instructor Angelica Lopez. A book signing will follow, and Amherst Books will be on site with copies available for purchase. Angela DiTerlizzi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who delights in writing rhythmic, charming picture books to be enjoyed and shared by both parents and children alike. Angelica Lopez is a 500-hour trauma-informed yoga instructor who discovered both yoga and books as sources of comfort, imagination, and grounding in childhood.
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Local Press & Lit Mag Fair
Browse and purchase books and literary magazines from some of Western Massachusetts’s leading presses and publications, including Amherst College Press, Orion Magazine, Restless Books, Storey Publishing, The Common, The Massachusetts Review, UMass Press, and White Goat Press. Discover new titles, pick up recent issues, and support the region’s vibrant literary scene all in one place. Mass Center for the Book will also be tabling to share information about our statewide literary programs, including the Mass Book Awards, Letters About Literature, the Reading Challenge, and more. Stop by the MCB table to receive your Lit Walk sticker for attending the fair. Event will be in the Social Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst.