CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/14/2024

Familiar Trees presents a marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'

Sunday, July 14, from 11 AM until 10 PM, Siglio presents a day-long reading of Bernadette Mayer's Memory at Familiar Trees—in the heart of the Berkshires, where many of those days in July 1971 were spent and recorded. Poets, writers and artists from near and far will read the entirety of the book, from morning until night, to celebrate this singular work, its inimitable author Bernadette Mayer, and the passionate community she nurtured.

Participating readers include: Rider Alsop . J. Mae Barizo . Joshua Beckman . Susan Bee . Charles Bernstein . Brenda Coultas . Russell Day . Helen Decker . Ben Doller . Sandra Doller . Marcella Durand . Atticus Fierman . Suzanne Goldenberg . Phil Good . Michael Gottlieb . Lucy Ives . Vincent Katz . Erica Kaufma . Eric Keenaghan . Ann Lauterbach . Annabel Lee . Jeffrey Lependorf . Jonathan Lethem . Erica Dawn Lyle . Dawn Lundy Martin . Ellyn Gaydos . Anna Moschovakis . Stephen Motika . John Patrick O’Grady . Trace Peterson . Emma Parrish Post . Evelyn Reilly . Lucy Sante . Elissa Schappell . Karen Schoemer . Chelsea Spengemann . Rob Spillman . Sarah Steadman . Edwin Torres . James Walsh . Marie Warsh . Max Warsh . Rebecca Wolff . Geoff Young . Amie Zimmerman

Familiar Trees is located at 80 Railroad Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 01230. The reading begins at 11 AM and will end when the readers finish the book, sometime (quite?) late into the evening. Free and open to the public.