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Jennifer Gunter King and Nick Twemlow on Literary Collections through Relationships: The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University

Sponsored by The Caxton Club The Rose Library at Emory University is the home of inspiring and deeply compelling poetry and literature collections that feature the papers, materials, and books of Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Natasha Trethewey, Salman Rushdie, and many more writers whose works have helped shape global cultural discourse […]

Twentieth-Century Counterculture Poets’ Libraries

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets' libraries shed light on the history […]

The Literary Archive of Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes, Mother and Daughter

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Wed. Nov. 9 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Jefferson Navicky, Archivist and Sarah E. Baker, Curator, both of the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New […]

Julia Bouwsma, Poet Laureate of Maine

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Open to all members of FABS societies On Wednesday, April 12, at 7:00 pm, the Baxter Society will host Julia Bouwsma, the Poet Laureate of Maine, in an online meeting over Zoom. Julia Bouwsma is a poet, a farmer, and a small-town librarian. She lives off-the-grid in the Blue Mountains […]

BCW Annual Meeting with Sharon Cumberland, Found in a Letter 1959: A Memoir in Poems

Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington All are welcome at the BCW Annual Meeting. We transact a little business, including making awards to students, and enjoy a special presentation that is the inspiration for a related keepsake. This year our featured speaker is distinguished poet Dr. Sharon Cumberland. About the Presentation In Dr. Cumberland’s […]

The Play’s the (Medieval) Thing: What Manuscripts Reveal

Sponsored by The Caxton Club Theater didn’t just spring to life with Shakespeare. Morality, mystery, masques and more trod the boards long before anyone conjured up the First Folio. You’ll want to be in the audience as Dr. Carol Symes explores the lively history of medieval plays. Among Caxton speakers, she’s probably the first to […]