*Rescheduled due to snow!!* Let the Story Warm You: An Evening Prose Reading with Marydell – Friday February 6, 2026, 7pm at Marydell, Nyack (Dining Hall)
Join All Ways Writing in collaboration with Marydell Faith & Life Center for a cozy afternoon of prose readings, featuring a curated selection of nine local writers. Hosted by Lily Greenberg, the readers include Ellyn Hament, Christina Leaño, Bridget McFadden, Emilya Naymark, Alex Russo, Fredric Sinclair, Collin Stephens, Jessica Wahlstrom, and Zaneta. The readers will present short pieces in groups of three, with brief Q&A’s to punctuate each group. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public, the reading will take place in the Marydell Dining Hall; guests are encouraged to park at Gate 3.
How to Read a Book (Of Poetry) Session 5 with Big Red Books featuring Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort – Wednesday April 22, 2026, 6:30pm at Big Red Books, Nyack
Join All Ways Writing Collective and Big Red Books for the fourth installment of our How to Read a Book (Of Poetry) series in which we read aloud award-winning collections of poetry using intuitive forms of engagement. Facilitated by Lily Greenberg, this is a great event if you feel like you don’t “get” poetry and would be interested in experiencing poems in a new way; also great if you’re already a poetry fan and want to experience poems in community.
Admission is the cost of our chosen book at 15% off, or similar if you already own the book and wish to purchase something else. 12 books are available on a first come, first served basis.
An Evening of Poetry featuring Valzhyna Mort and Samyak Shertok – Saturday April 25, 2026, 7pm at Big Red Books, Nyack
Join All Ways Writing in partnership with Big Red Books for an evening of poetry featuring renowned poets Valzhyna Mort and Samyak Shertok.
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by The New York Times and The NPR, and the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. She teaches at Cornell University
Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award. Originally from Nepal, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University.
Past Readings
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 4 with Big Red Books featuring The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley – Wednesday November 19, 2025
Poetry Reading featuring Leila Chatti & Isabella DeSendi with community readers H.E. Fisher, Madison Flanagan, Del-Marie Forbes, Alexa Palumbo, & Jeff Shalom – Saturday November 15, 2025 at Big Red Books
Poems of Place: Community Poetry Reading with Friends of River Hook featuring Mary Lou Buschi, Gail Hovey, Eugene Hwang, Shauna Lauricella, Conrad Lochner, Kirsten Meehan, Madalasa Mobili, Alison Stone, Abigail Todras, & Tedo Wyman – Saturday July 20, 2025 at River Hook Preserve
How to Read a Book (Of Poetry) Session 3 with Big Red Books featuring Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay – Wednesday June 11, 2025 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Poetry Reading featuring Dawn Lundy Martin & Matthew Gellman with Community Readers Kelly Jo Lillian, Kate MacLauchlin, Kirsten Meehan, Earl ‘Owen’ Minoza, and Cherish Pratt – Saturday May 18, 2025 at The Angel Nyack
Poetry Reading featuring Andres Cerpa & Joshua Garcia with Community Readers H.E. Fisher, Conrad Lochner, Bridget McFadden, & Jay’Ada Mercedes – Friday April 18, 2025 at Prohibition River, Nyack
Spring & All Prose Reading featuring Judy Bivona, Tina Cooper, Vanessa Goldhaven, Ellyn Hament, Jennifer McArdle, Madalasa Mobili, Emilya Naymark, David Thomas Peacock, & Fredric Sinclair – Saturday March 22, 2025 at Old Stone Meeting House, Upper Nyack
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 2 with Big Red Books ft. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón – Wednesday November 13, 2024 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Nyack Writes Poetry Reading featuring Marie Howe and Megan Pinto – Saturday October 12, 2024 at Nyack Center
Poems of Place: Community Poetry Reading with Friends of River Hook featuring Mary Lou Buschi, Tina Cooper, Vanessa Goldhaven, Ronald Hammond, Bridget Kiley, Kelly Jo Lillian, Conrad Lochner, Kate MacLauchlan, & Tedo Wyman – Saturday July 20, 2024 at River Hook Preserve
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 1 with Big Red Books ft. The Wild Iris by Louise Glück – Wednesday June 26, 2024 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Night Glare Reading Series: Jill Bialosky & Bethany Ball – Thursday February 29, 2024 at Nyack Library
Night Glare Reading Series: James Hoch & Emily Lee Luan with Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians – Friday October 13, 2023 at Carson McCullers House Nyack
Night Glare Reading Series: Jennifer Franklin & Isabella DeSendi with Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians – Saturday June 17, 2023 at Carson McCullers House Nyack
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