Please join us this Thursday, July 27, for the final Reading of the season as we welcome Vievee Francis and Asako Serizawa. Reading begin promptly at 7:30 pm at the Canaan Meetinghouse.
The scheduled Library Trustee meeting will take place at 6:00pm on Monday, July 17 at the Canaan Meetinghouse.
Join art, Gary Hamel for a guided tour of his art show: Putting the Pieces Back Together.
Monday, July 24, 6:30 pm
The Meetinghouse Readings, Canaan’s grassroots literary series, presents its 34th season of outstanding and emerging voices in fiction, poetry and nonfiction beginning Thursday July 13, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
The series opens with readings by renowned poet Ellen Bryant Voigt and journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose latest book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, is a bestselling and controversial portrait of our times.
On July 20th, Douglas Bauer returns with a new novel, The Beckoning World, to read in company with novelist and memoirist Joyce Maynard, whose new novel is The Bird Hotel.
Poet Vievee Francis and fiction and nonfiction writer Peter Orner close out the series with readings from Francis’ latest collection, The Shared World, and Orner’s genre-crossing engagement with life on and off the page, Still No Word From You.
Series founder William Craig will moderate the readings in Canaan, NH’s beautiful 1793 Meetinghouse. Admission is free. Homemade refreshments are memorably worthy of generous donations.
All are welcome, but please, no infants, toddler or squirmers.
ALL READINGS BEGIN AT 7:30 P.M.
July 13
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Headwaters, Shadow of Heaven
Jeff Sharlet
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
July 20
Douglas Bauer
The Beckoning World, The Book of Famous Iowans
Joyce Maynard
The Bird Hotel, The Influencers, The Best of Us
July 27
Vievee Francis
The Shared World, Forest Primeval
Peter Orner
Still No Word From You, Esther Stories
We hope you will join us for a summer filled with reading fun. We will have crafts, story times, Reading Bingo, Puppet shows, and Ice Cream!
Reading Bingo is split into two groups: Summer Sunshine Reading Bingo for the kiddos, and Beat the Heat Beach Read Bingo for folks aged 12 through adult. Pick up your bingo cards starting Saturday, June 24.
Learn more about our Summer Reading Program, including our schedule of events!