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Let's go upstreet!

Reading featuring authors from upstreet number five:

Saturday 12 December 2009, 7:00 p.m.
WordPlay @ Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA
     Host: Gail M. Burns for Inkberry
     Readers: Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Cynthia Quinones, Vivian Dorsel

Thursday 17 September 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     A reading and signing party for Stephen Dietemann,
     Author of Four Seasons/Four Time Zones
     Fiction writer, architect and architecture columnist
     Chapters featured visual artist for September 2009

Reading featuring authors from upstreet number five:

Saturday 3 September 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Cynthia Quinones

Thursday 6 August 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     A reading and signing party for Marshall Jon Fisher,
     Author of A Terrible Splendor

Reading featuring poets from upstreet numbers four and five:

Thursday 7 May 2009, 7:00 p.m.
BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
     Host: Jessica Greenbaum, Poetry Editor
     Readers: Nicole Cooley, Alan Feldman, Jeffrey Harrison,
                  Michael O'Brien, Jean Valentine, Bill Zavatsky

Readings to celebrate National Poetry Month:

Saturday 25 April 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Karen Chase, Cody Walker (Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow)

Saturday 18 April 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Aaron M. Beatty, Lisken Van Pelt Dus,
                  Michelle Gillett, Philip Timpane, Irene Willis

Thursday 12 February 2009, 6:30 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT: UPSTREET CELEBRATES @ AWP 2009
The Book Cellar, 4736 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Michael Martone, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Barber,
                  Jeanie Chung, Elaine Sexton, Kip Zegers

Readings featuring authors from the first four issues of upstreet:

Thursday 30 October 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher 
     Readers: Aaron M. Beatty, Lisken Van Pelt Dus

Thursday 25 September 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Michelle Gillett, Cynthia Quinones, Frank Tempone

Reading featuring the authors of upstreet number four:

Saturday 13 September 2008, 7:00 p.m.
WordPlay @ Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA 
     Host: Gail M. Burns for Inkberry 
     Readers: Daniel Hales, Vivian Dorsel 

Readings featuring the authors of upstreet number three:
 
Sunday 3 August 2008, 5:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT: MEET UPSTREET'S POETRY EDITOR
The Bookstore, 11 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Karen Chase, Jeffrey Harrison
                  Jessica Greenbaum, Poetry Editor
     
Monday 25 February 2008, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT: UPSTREET @ CORNELIA STREET
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York City
     Hosts: Bill Zavatsky, Vivian Dorsel
     Readers: Frank Tempone, Karen D. Taylor
     Jazz vocals: Karen D. Taylor, accompanied by— 
     —Marcus Persiani, Piano 
     —Andy McCloud, Bass 
     —Jeff Haynes, Percussion
  
Sunday 28 October 2007, 2:00 p.m.
Broadside Bookshop, 246 Main Street, Northampton, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Dave Champoux, Kiki Smith, Frank Tempone

Saturday 8 September 2007, 7:00 p.m.
WordPlay @ Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA
     Host: Gail M. Burns for Inkberry
     Readers: Dave Champoux, Vivian Dorsel, 
                  Patricia Moger Varshavtchik

Thursday 23 August 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble, 555 Hubbard Avenue, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Aaron M. Beatty, Michelle Gillett, Kiki Smith

Friday 27 July 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Stockbridge Booksellers, 10 Elm Street, Stockbridge, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Barry Jay Kaplan, Frank Tempone

Readings featuring the authors of upstreet number two:

Monday 21 May 2007, 7:00 p.m.
McNally Robinson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York City
     Host: Jessica Greenbaum, Poetry Editor
     Readers: Stephen Ackerman, Judy Katz, Frances Richey,
                  Hal Sirowitz, Mark Statman, Bill Zavatsky

Sunday 15 April 2007, 2:00 p.m.
Broadside Bookshop, 246 Main Street, Northampton, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Chivas Sandage, Debora Seidman,
                  Anna Viadero, Sara C. Rauch

Sunday 25 March 2007, 2:00 p.m.
Oblong Books & Music, 26 Main Street, Millerton, NY 
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher 
     Readers: Judy Katz, Jonathan A. Reynolds, Helen Klein Ross

Saturday 10 March 2007, 7:00 p.m.
WordPlay @ Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA 
     Host: Gail Burns for Inkberry 
     Readers: Francis C. Merrigan, Hilary Bird Poremski, Anna Viadero

Friday 9 February 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble, 555 Hubbard Avenue, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Dave Champoux, Lisken Van Pelt Dus,
                  William Miller, Philip Timpane

Thursday 4 January 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Bellissimo Dolce, 444 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Linda Pierce, Jonathan A. Reynolds

Friday 1 December 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Stockbridge Booksellers, 10 Elm Street, Stockbridge, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Ed Anthony, Karen Chase, Michelle Gillett, Bob Gray

Readings featuring the authors of upstreet number one:

Sunday 2 April 2006, 2:00 p.m.
Broadside Bookshop, 246 Main Street, Northampton, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Sandy Breiner, Mary Fillmore, Magdalena Gomez,
                  Chivas Sandage

Friday 24 March 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble, 555 Hubbard Avenue, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Frank Tempone, Fiction Editor
     Readers: Ed Anthony, Andrew Schindel,
                  Debora Seidman, Anna Viadero

Friday 10 March 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Stockbridge Booksellers, 10 Elm Street, Stockbridge, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Marshall Jon Fisher, 
                 Jean Moore, Nancy Swisher

Thursday 23 February 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Bellissimo Dolce, 444 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Vivian Dorsel, Editor/Publisher
     Readers: Bob Gray, Andrew Schindel, Laura Shepard

Saturday 11 February 2006, 7:00 p.m.
WordPlay @ Papyri Books, 49 Main Street, North Adams, MA
     Host: Gail M. Burns for Inkberry
     Readers: Aaron M. Beatty, Stephen Dietemann, Bob Gray,
                  Loralee Moon, Cynthia Saunders

Saturday 21 January 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Launch Party: Word Street, 163 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
     Host: Frank Tempone, Fiction Editor
     Readers: Margarita Cardenas, Karen Chase,
                 Howard Faerstein, Joyce A. Griffin