with Paul Mariani, Ellen Doré Watson & Rich Michelson Thursday, April 23, 2015 – 6:30 PM Blue Heron Great Room Chop Chop Salad Romaine, Chick Peas, Manchego Spanish Garlic Vinaigrette  please select one entrée Pan Roasted Breast of Chicken Misty Knoll Chicken Roasted Baby Potatoes Parsnip Puree, Roasted Asparagus Pan Seared Salmon Red Wine Syrup, Caper Olive & Lemon Relish Roasted Baby Potatoes Parsnip Puree, Roasted Asparagus Fettucine with Spring Peas Asparagus, Lemon Cream Pecorino Romano  Selection of Blue Heron Desserts $40/person (price does not include tax or gratuity) 112 N. Main St, Sunderland, MA 01375 | 413.665.2102 | [email protected] 3/26/2015 about the poets Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English at Boston College. His 17 books include biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He has published seven volumes of poetry, most recently Epitaphs for the Journey.His awardsinclude a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Endowmentfor the Arts Fellowships. In 2009 he received the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. He was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts, where he taught from 1968 to 2000. His life of Hart Crane, The Broken Tower, a featurelength film, directed by and starring James Franco, was released in 2012. He is now at work on a memoir of growing up on the mean streets of New York in the 1940s and an eighth volume of poetry, Ordinary Time, from which he will be reading. Poet and translator Ellen Doré Watson will read from her most recent book is Dogged Hearts (Tupelo Press, 2010). Earlier collections include This Sharpening, also from Tupelo, and two from Alice James, We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tin House, Orion, and The New Yorker. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and to Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Her bestknown works of translation are The Alphabet in the Park and Ex-Voto, both by Brazilian Adélia Prado. Watson lives in Western Massachusetts, where she directs the Poetry Center at Smith College and serves as poetry and translation editor of The Massachusetts Review. She also teaches in the Drew University Low-Residency MFA Program in Poetry and Translation. Richard Michelson's many books have been listed among the Ten Best of the Year by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker; and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com. He has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award and he is the only author ever honored with both a Sidney Taylor Gold and Silver Medal in a single year from the Association of Jewish Librarians. Michelson owns R. Michelson Galleries and he is the host of NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio). He just completed his 2nd term as Poet Laureate of Northampton Massachusetts. He will be reading from his newest poetry collection, More Money than God (Pitt Poetry Series), which has just been published. 112 N. Main St, Sunderland, MA 01375 | 413.665.2102 | [email protected] 3/26/2015