BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Prior Performing Arts Center - ECPv6.9.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Prior Performing Arts Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20260304T164313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T145130Z UID:6077-1774553400-1774553400@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writers Series: Diannely Antigua & Philip Metres DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n Working Writers Series\n \n \n \n \n \n Diannely Antigua & Philip Metres\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPoets Diannely Antigua and Philip Metres will read from and discuss their work as part of the Working Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. \nDiannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet\, educator\, and community organizer born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collections Ugly Music\, which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award\, and Good Monster. \nPhilip Metres is the author of thirteen books\, including Dispatches from the Land of Erasure (2025)\, Fugitive/Refuge\, and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, and the Ohio Arts Council. He has received the William Carlos Williams Award\, the Hunt Prize\, the Adrienne Rich Award\, three Arab American Book Awards\, the Lyric Poetry Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n\n \n \n \n \n \n March 26\, 20267:30 p.m. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n“The Alden” Performance Studio3rd Floor\, Prior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/working-writers-series-diannely-antigua-philip-metres/ LOCATION:Alden Trust Performance Studio (3rd Floor\, Prior Performing Arts Center)\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/working-writers-series-march-26.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20250828T173117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T173118Z UID:5163-1763062200-1763062200@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writers Series: Ferris Jabr DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n Ferris Jabr\n \n \n \n \n \n Working Writers Series\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nFerris Jabr will read from and discuss his work as part of the Working Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. \nFerris Jabr is the New York Times-bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Ferris has also written for The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, National Geographic\, and Scientific American\, among numerous other publications. He has received fellowships from Yale\, MIT\, and UC Berkeley\, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation. His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n November 13\, 20257:30 p.m. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBooth Media LabPrior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/working-writers-series-ferris-jabr/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ferris-jabr-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240717T160923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T214059Z UID:2204-1743708600-1743708600@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writers Series: Michelle Nijhuis DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n Michelle Nijhuis\n \n \n \n \n \n Working Writers Series\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nMichelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. She is a contributing editor of High Country News and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She has reported on science and the environment for National Geographic\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times Magazine.  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n April 3\, 20257:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nRehm LibrarySmith Hall\, 3rd Floor URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/michelle-nijhuis/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Rehm Library in Smith Hall –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/michelle-nijhuis-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T163000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240717T160300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T174700Z UID:2202-1742488200-1742488200@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writers Series: Michelle Ephraim & Alizah Holstein DESCRIPTION:Michelle Ephraim & Alizah Holstein\n \n \n \n \n \n Co-sponsored by the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters and the Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nMichelle Ephraim is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her debut book GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare (UMASS Press\, 2024) was awarded the 2023 Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction. \nAlizah Holstein authored My Roman History (Viking Press\, June 2024). She holds a MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in medieval Italian History from Cornell University. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n March 20\, 20254:30 p.m. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nRehm Library URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/michelle-ephraim-and-aliza-holstein/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ephraim-holstein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240717T155939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T173654Z UID:2200-1740079800-1740079800@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writers Series: Heather Treseler & John Hodgen DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n Heather Treseler & John Hodgen\n \n \n \n \n \n Working Writers Series\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nIn this Working Writers Series presentation\, award-winning poets John Hodgen and Heather Treseler discuss and read from their latest collections of poetry —Hodgen’s What We May Be and Treseler’s Auguries & Divinations—in a call-and-response format.  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nJohn Hodgen has published six books of poetry\, most recently What We May Be. His many awards include the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry\, Grolier Prize for Poetry\, Bluestem Award\, Balcones Prize\, Foley Prize\, and prizes from Beloit Poetry Journal\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, and Yankee Magazine. He is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University and advisory editor for New Letters.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nHeather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations\, winner of the 2023 May Sarton Poetry Prize\, and Parturition\, which received the 2019 Munster Literature Centre Chapbook Award and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Individual poems have won the W.B. Yeats Prize and prizes from Narrative and the Missouri Review. She is professor of English at Worcester State University.  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n February 20\, 20257:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBooth Media LabThe Prior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/heather-treseler-and-john-hodgen/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/treseler-hodgen-landscape.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240717T161447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T213030Z UID:2206-1738265400-1738265400@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Reading: Leah Hager Cohen DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Program\n \n \n \n \n \n Leah Hager Cohen\n \n \n \n \n \n Faculty Reading\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nCollege of the Holy Cross faculty member and writer Leah Hager Cohen is featured in this Faculty Reading event sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. \nLeah Hager Cohen is the author of seven novels and five works of nonfiction\, which have been selected as best books of the year by the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Globe and Mail and others. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n January 30\, 20257:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBooth Media LabPrior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/leah-hager-cohen/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/leah-hager-cohen-landscape.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240717T155128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T172207Z UID:2198-1731007800-1731007800@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writer Series: Kerri Arsenault DESCRIPTION:Working Writer Series\n \n \n \n \n \n Kerri Arsenault\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nKerri Arsenault is the co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio; contributing editor at Orion Magazine; and author or the award-winning book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe\, The Paris Review\, the New York Review of Books\, Freeman’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. \nMill Town received numerous awards\, including the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists\, the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction\, and an Inge Feltrinelli Prize\, dedicated to women writers who have used their voices in defense of human rights. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n November 7\, 20247:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nRehm Library3rd Floor\, Smith Hall URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/kerri-arsenault/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Rehm Library in Smith Hall –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/arsenault-landscape.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240716T194738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T192339Z UID:2152-1729798200-1729798200@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writer Series: Allegra Hyde DESCRIPTION:Working Writer Series\n \n \n \n \n \n Allegra Hyde\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nFiction writer Allegra Hyde is featured in this Working Writer Series event sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n October 24\, 20247:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBooth Media LabThe Prior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/allegra-hyde/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/hyde-landscape.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T022712 CREATED:20240716T193718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T180915Z UID:2147-1726774200-1726774200@priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu SUMMARY:Working Writer Series: Vievee Francis & Matthew Olzmann DESCRIPTION:Working Writer Series\n \n \n \n \n \n Vievee Francis & Matthew Olzmann\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nWriters Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann are featured in this Working Writer Series event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Africana Studies programs. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details\n \n \n \n \n \n \n September 19\, 20247:30 PM \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Price\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Free Entry \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Venue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nBooth Media LabThe Prior Performing Arts Center URL:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/event/vievee-francis-and-matthew-olzmann/ LOCATION:CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –\, 1 College St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States CATEGORIES:Creative Writing Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://priorperformingartscenter.holycross.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/creative-writing-temp-graphic.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR