06/15/2026
Please join us Saturday June 27th from 4:00 – 6:00 PM for readings by poets Norman Fischer and Ted Pearson.
Come for great readings and good company, along with drinks and food provided by the Friends of Great Barrington Libraries.
Norman Fischer is a poet, author, graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a senior American Zen Buddhist priest. A resident of the Bay Area, he has been publishing since the late 1970’s, including more than thirty titles of poetry and prose. His most recent poetry titles are Through a Window, There Was A Clattering As…, Nature, and Men in Suits. Chax Press will bring out his collection PoEM in early 2027. Chax also is publisher of his Selected Poems 1980-2013.
Ted Pearson, born and raised in Palo Alto, is a seventh-generation Californian. In a career spanning six decades, Ted has published thirty-two books of poetry, most recently Epistrophy and Trilogy. He co-authored The Grand Piano, a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography; co-edited Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson, and edited Epilogue, a posthumous collection of Craig Watson’s last poems. His work has appeared in Canada, England, France, Spain, and India. He currently lives in Northampton, MA.
