Free Poetry Reading At the Mason Library
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, Aug. 29, 2026 from 4 -6 pm.
Poets Jan Conn and Orchid Tierney will read from their works.
Wine, cider and food provided by the Friends of Great Barrington Libraries.
About the poets
Jan Conn is a poet, biologist, and visual artist. Peony Vertigo is her most recent book. The Disruptive Ordinary, a chapbook, is forthcoming this autumn. Her visual art is represented by Lauren Clark Fine Art Gallery in Great Barrington. She recently retired as Professor and Research Scientist with the New York State Department of Health and SUNY-Albany.
Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar, originally from New Zealand. She is the author of This Abattoir Is a College and A Year of Misreading the Wildcats as well as several chapbooks including Pedagogies for the Planthroposcene. She co-edited the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. She teaches at Kenyon College in Ohio and is a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.
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. Friends of the GB Libraries sponsors events and programs to bring community members together with library resources.
Mason Library, 231 Main Street, Great Barrington, for more information call (413) 528-2403.
