NE Readers and Writers is open to anyone who enjoys the challenge of reading great works, thought-provoking discussion – or the camaraderie of impromptu writing. Join us to explore new ideas, to share your thoughts, and to learn from each other. See our current offerings below.
Burlington Literature Group
Meeting every Tuesday at 6:30 PM ET for 90 minutes via Zoom (email [email protected] for Zoom link).
We breakdown interesting, challenging books into weekly segments, discuss form, content and our impressions in a friendly online forum led by Patrick Brownson and Michael Sevy.
Currently reading Colum McCann. Next up is Saul Bellow.
Read Like A Writer
Meeting the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month with Riki Moss at 6:30 – 8PM ET via Zoom (email riki@nereadersandwriters.com
for the files and Zoom link.
Faulkner warns writers to “. . read everything, just like an apprentice who studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out.” As Zen master Dogen said, “If you walk in the mist, you get wet.”
Fiction writers might be liars, fictionalizing names, places, ideas – and we all are wary of the reliability of memory – but when fiction is in service of deeper truths, we know it, we want to learn how the writer did it, we want to explore for ourselves.
Close Readings of Contemporary Poetry
Every Third Monday
6:30 – 8 PM EST on Zoom
(email [email protected] for Zoom link).
Each month we discuss collaboratively a selected poetry book by a contemporary poet.