Join us on Tuesday, January 3, 7-9pm at Big Bear Used Books & Café for Writers Night Out with featured writer Rick Paar.

Big Bear Used Books & Café is located in the Keystone Building, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA. There is ample parking right across the street. Food & beverage available for sale. No registration required. Suggested donation $5 to help cover space use fee.

Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.

Bio: Rick Paar is the author of God Bless America and Breakfast Burritos to Go. He is also a psychologist who chaired the Department of Psychology at Springfield College where he taught courses in counseling and psychotherapy. He served on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Psychological Association. His stories have been published in Meat for Tea, Blue Nib, Aethelon, Voices, Psychotherapy Patient, and The International Journal of Play among others. He has been a columnist for three newspapers/journals and is on the board of Straw Dogs Writers Guild. His academic writing has appeared in a variety of journals with topics ranging from the metaphysical, to play and creativity. He is currently working on his next book.

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Registration is required. Register in advance by clicking HERE.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email (within 24 – 48 hours) containing information about joining the meeting. For security purposes, all attendees must register via this link. Names not on the registration list will not be admitted at the time of the event. Contact strawdogevents@gmail.com for questions.

Bio: Adin Thayer grew up in Virginia. During the past 19 years, she has spent time working in Rwanda and neighboring countries in Africa. The experiences and people she has encountered through that work, as well as the impact of her childhood during Jim Crow, inform and inhabit her poetry. Her work also attempts to express and explore the ways the natural world’s power, beauty and lawfulness do and could affect how we behave as people.

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