Inkmail Archive
Want to revisit old glories? Track Inkberry’s development month by month? This is the place.
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival Reminiscing at Sweetbrook & Inkberry’s “Featured Author of the Month” Plans and Progress! Congratulations to upstreet Gearing Up for Summer! Inkberry Intern Departing Statment Wednesday Night Critique Group. Finding Personal Meaning in Poetry Group. Download books and audiobooks. Information about The Write Stuff and a Happy New Year. A recap of 2008, and a preview of what’s ahead. Fall reading, apples and squash, and autumn Inkberry events. New inkmail format, congratulations to Jill Gilbreth, and other literary happenings around town. Events, playwriting, orange leaves: signs of fall. Summer reading and a baseball haiku contest. Farewell to interns Holly and Sondra, and a preview of coming events. This month’s Inkmail comes from Patty Crane, a friend of Inkberry, who’s currently living abroad in Stockholm. Good sports, good stories, Wordplay and light verse, a farewell to Rachel and news of an impending move to NBCA. New year, complete with resolutions: to bring organizational assessment and strategic planning to the fore. Also, looking ahead to light verse, and more news about The Write Stuff. What a difference a year makes: Jill looks back on 2007. Introductions from new board member Amy Stevens, the Cleaner Plate Club, and local literary goings-on NaNoWriMo at Inkberry and local literary goings-on. Linda White and Bill Belcher introduce themselves and explain how they became involved with Inkberry. Interviewing writer-in-residence candidates, a look at fall, plus glimpses of local people and happenings. A tiny taste of summer; stepping up for the Write Stuff; local literary happenings. The Moon is Broken at WCMA; ekphrastic WordPlay; and working with the Freeman Center to help women in “Standing Tall.” New January events and programs! Interns, programs, what a blast! New people, new programs, November—Oh, My! Thank you to Rachel, hello from Inkberry’s New Executive Director. A glance ahead at fall, and farewell from Rachel, our first executive director. Office improvements, a new poetry workshop, and a glimpse of what’s ahead in the fall. Inkstravaganza’s remembered glories, and online workshops to come. An inkstravaganza celebrating Inkberry. A weekend with Anne Waldman awaits as our fifth anniversary season gets in gear. Recounting Andrea Barrett and the Gospel of Mark; looking ahead to poetry month, our summer season, and our fifth anniversary Inkstravaganza! A new intern, a visit from John Dicker, a new local ‘zine, and looking ahead to an action-packed March. New teen coffeehouse, looking ahead to John Dicker’s visit, and saying farewell to two terrific January interns. Kicking off our fifth anniversary year in style! Jack Gilbert visits, we survive another annual appeal, and we plan ahead for 2006. Looking back at Phillip Lopate and Jane Yolen, and ahead to Jack Gilbert and fall fundraising season. Starting our salon series, and announcing support from the MCC. Saying farewell to Holly, and looking forward to a super-busy fall. Our weekend with Verlyn Klinkenborg, the launch of “inkblog,” and a sneak preview of fall. Looking back at our first humor workshop, and forward to our first NEA-funded event. Our first reading in Adams, the new Inkberry photo gallery, and memories of our first event. Plus, a glimpse of the month to come! The start of a new summer season — plus, welcoming Jill, our new administrator. Riotous nonfiction at the Bean, the kickoff of our second poetry festival, and saying farewell to Tom. The shortest month zips by; now it’s time for nonfiction, grant applications, and a sneak peek at poetry to come. Recapping our move, and looking ahead to the best February yet: Rumi, fiddling Alaskans, and more! Announcing our move to 61 Main, and our NEA Fast-Track America Challenge Grant! Looking back on 2004…and gearing up for our most exciting year yet. Collaborations, creative writing boot camp, and screenwriting online: November gets in gear. Our classroom gets a facelift from the “Where Am I” gang, and fall gets its groove on. Fantastic fiction; freshmen; and heading full steam towards fall! New books, online workshops, and a sneak peek at fall. Our third birthday, the release of our first anthology, and a taste of food-writing workshops to come. Summer’s just around the corner, and Inkberry’s got something to celebrate! Our new season begins, and our new intern says hello. March goes out like a (literary) lion as we pounce on all that’s happening in the month of April Readings on site, classes (and more) online, and a taste of things to come. News, views and Howard Cruse! Kicking off the new year, and introducing our new Associate Director. Wrapping up 2003 and saying goodbye to an Inkberry founder. Tools for poets, challenge grants, and another intern waves hello. Examining the Bible, drinking wine, and introducing our new volunteer coordinator (not all at once). Winding down summer with one-act plays, and many book reviews. Workshops, workshops, workshops — and Rick Moody! Keeping cool with summer workshops, REACHing for Breast Health, and introducing our heroic summer intern. Strange weather, the reading series on hiatus, and reprising the First Friday party. A month of transition: we haven’t lost a Sandy so much as gained a Kate… Busy as proverbial bees: new classes, Mark Doty coming, and a new First Friday program. The inexorable crawl towards spring, livened by a workshop, our first Art Walk, and two readings. Rethinking space flight while keeping up with business. Also introducing Effy, our first intern! Swinging into ‘03, with Playwriting, an online workshop, and Ted Conover! Winding down one year, gearing up for the next. It’s the most exhausting time of the year: fundraising season shifts into overdrive. Fall forward: a new season of classes, including collaborations with Images Cinema and UNITY. A new store, an expanded library, and a reading attributable to our very first newsletter. Time flies and events whirl as summer rushes on. Inkberry hosts the famous and infamous: our critically erotic month. Five new directors, two readings, and a Cultural Salon! (No partridges or pear trees, though.) Our darling buds: a songwriting workshop, a gallery opening, a reading by local authors, and some great fiction. April is the cruelest month, dumping snow on the Berkshires, but on the other hand bringing Alicia Ostriker to Inkberry… New readers, new teachers, and saying goodbye to an old friend. Our first First Friday, a few of our favorite things, and mechanical blues. Opening the doors at command central; experimenting with our winter schedule. A new home, local talent, and regional press. Fictional Ashbery interviews, real partnerships, and Inkberry’s television debut. Carrying on with literature in the face of September 11. Collaborative performances, expanding our staff, and putting together the fall schedule. Dealing with summer, ekphrastic literature, and heading for MASS MoCA. New students, new web design, and a packed house at the Main Street Stage. Running like a top, unveiling the summer schedule, and recalling childhood favorites… Inkberry is featured on WAMC, bags Pam Houston and Nerissa Nields, and has an inadvertent run-in with Chekhov. Donald Hall coming in June, Claire Messud coming in January, and a workshop and book groups coming right away! Inkberry gets its first publicity! Plus upcoming readings, a partnership with the Main Street Stage, and the opening of registration for our first classes. Like a baby’s first words — news of our first readings, first workshop, and the introduction of book groups.October 2009
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