The Chilmark Free Public Library is bringing back the Elisa Brickner Poetry Contest Ceremony, after a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest and celebrations held on April 24 at 4 pm will feature poetry and readings by winning high school poets. The contest was established 30 years ago in honor of Elisa […]
The Chilmark Tavern, Pathways’ winter gathering space, will once again be hopping on Tuesday nights. Ron Slate has arranged an impressive array of readers for this year’s Writing and Poetry Tuesdays lineup. As always, there will be time afterward for the audience to speak with the presenters, and then an open mic, making each night […]
The first Islanders Write was held at the Grange Hall on a sweltering August day in 2014. From the beginning we wanted to make Islanders Write free to attend; it would be a gift to the community from the MV Times. There was no advance registration for the event, which meant we had no idea […]
Poetry has always stumped me. I adore reading, and am an avid fan of fiction and nonfiction of all sorts. But poetry has remained elusive, despite my parents’ love of the art form. I even took a class in college, hoping to break the mystery. Not much luck. But I decided to take the plunge […]
As PathwaysArts says, it’s dedicated to catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writing, dance, and collaborative forms. One of the important endeavors of this Chilmark institution is its Writing & Poetry Tuesdays, which have been going strong for the 13 years Pathways has been around. When they were originally conducting the evenings on Zoom, […]