“Each Knuckle with Sugar”: A Reading & Conversation with Sarah Levine

Schedule

Tue May 05 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

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238 Cabot St | Holyoke, MA

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An evening with poet Sarah Levine featuring a reading, followed by a conversation with the poet and an audience Q&A.
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Join Wistariahurst Museum for an evening with poet Sarah Levine, whose collection Each Knuckle with Sugar received Poetry Honors in the Massachusetts Book Awards. This program will feature a reading from the collection, followed by a conversation with the poet and an audience Q&A. Attendees are invited to engage with the poems and hear Levine speak about her creative process, influences, and the questions that shape her work.

Each Knuckle with Sugar is a collection in which play becomes power at the turn of a page or a line. Sarah Levine’s endlessly inventive imagery offers readers a charged interiority through language that surprises, delights, and—at times—bares its teeth. The book’s lively wonder is driven by the interplay of grief, love, loss, confusion, and desire, unfolding through an epistolary exchange between two recurring speakers, Herman and Begonia.

This program is sponsored by the Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau and is presented i collaboration with the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Sarah Levine is the author of Each Knuckle with Sugar, winner of the Driftwood Press Open Reading Contest and a 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards Honors recipient in Poetry. She is also the author of the chapbooks Take Me Home and Her Man, and her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, The Paris American, Passages North, Green Mountains Review, and the Best New Poets anthology, among others. Levine teaches at Williston Northampton School and lives in Western Massachusetts.


Acompáñenos al Museo Wistariahurst para disfrutar de una velada con la poeta Sarah Levine, cuya colección Each Knuckle with Sugar recibió el premio «Poetry Honors» en los Massachusetts Book Awards. El programa incluirá una lectura de la colección, seguida de una charla con la poeta y una ronda de preguntas y respuestas con el público. Se invita a los asistentes a sumergirse en los poemas y a escuchar a Levine hablar sobre su proceso creativo, sus influencias y las cuestiones que dan forma a su obra.

Each Knuckle with Sugar es una colección en la que el juego se convierte en poder al pasar una página o una línea. Las imágenes infinitamente creativas de Sarah Levine ofrecen a los lectores una interioridad cargada de emoción a través de un lenguaje que sorprende, deleita y, en ocasiones, muestra los dientes. La vivaz maravilla del libro se nutre de la interacción entre el dolor, el amor, la pérdida, la confusión y el deseo, y se desarrolla a través de un intercambio epistolar entre dos personajes recurrentes, Herman y Begonia.

Este programa está patrocinado por la Oficina de Ponentes de los Premios Literarios de Massachusetts y se presenta en colaboración con el Centro del Libro de Massachusetts.

Sarah Levine es la autora de Each Knuckle with Sugar, ganadora del Concurso Abierto de Lectura de Driftwood Press y galardonada con una mención de honor en la categoría de Poesía de los Premios Literarios de Massachusetts 2025. También es autora de los chapbooks Take Me Home y Her Man, y su obra ha aparecido en Poets & Writers, The Paris American, Passages North, Green Mountains Review y la antología Best New Poets, entre otros. Levine imparte clases en la Williston Northampton School y vive en el oeste de Massachusetts.


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