# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Gary Metras Poetry Reading (Poetry Month at the Easthampton Public Library)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: The Easthampton Public Library Library is excited to bring our own poet and publisher Gary Metras to the Annex for a special reading! 

Gary Metras was the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Easthampton, Massachusetts, appointed April 2018. Marble Dust (Cervena Barva Press, 2024) is the most recent of his nine poetry books along with 13 chapbooks. His essays, reviews, and chiefly poems have appeared in hundreds of journals such as America, The Boston Review of Books, California Quarterly, The Common, Connecticut Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry East, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Yankee. Metras is a past recipient of the Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry. He was the founder, editor and letterpress printer for 40 years of Adastra Press, which specialized in hand-crafted, limited editions of poetry. He taught English at Hampshire Regional High School and Springfield College. He is an avid fly fisher of the local streams and rivers for recreation and inspiration
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/easthampton/gary-metras-poetry-reading-poetry-month-at-the-easthampton-public-library/200029906056555
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Easthampton
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 52 Main St, Easthampton, MA 01027-2049, United States
- **lat**: 42.27082
- **long**: -72.67158
- **full address**: 52 Main St, Easthampton, MA 01027-2049, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Gary Metras Poetry Reading (Poetry Month at the Easthampton Public Library) being held?
  - **A:** Gary Metras Poetry Reading (Poetry Month at the Easthampton Public Library) takes place on Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm at 52 Main St, Easthampton, MA 01027-2049, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Gary Metras Poetry Reading (Poetry Month at the Easthampton Public Library)?
  - **A:** Gary Metras Poetry Reading (Poetry Month at the Easthampton Public Library) is organized by Easthampton Public Library.

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