Raven Used Books Shelburne Falls, MA.

COME BY THIS FRIDAY, SEPT. 13TH AT 6 PM for rescheduled reading from august that was postponed due to poor weather.

Speaking at the Raven next month

How to Love a Forest — The Northern Logger Podcast In this month’s episode, we speak to Ethan Tapper, a Vermont forester who has spent the last eight years as the Chittendon County Forester for the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks, and Recreation. This June, he embarked on his own journey as a consulting forester, establishing his own company, ...

Usually closed on Mondays, but we will be open this Monday on Labor Day. 11-5.

Reminder of Shelburne Falls Memorial Hall fundraiser event this evening. Great weather for outdoor music.

We have expanded our sale book offerings! 2 big bookcases of good books priced $2.95 and less.

A few more cool books just priced up today

we are putting out a couple of hundred books a week from that big poetry and philosophy collection we recently bought. The Raven also purchased over 600 books from former employees of Harvard University press - all brand new and 50 - 70% off cover. lastly, we just purchased and starting to put out many hundreds of excellent Mathematics book.

Sadly, Doug Anderson and Gail Thomas postponed their reading tonight at Raven Used Books . Paying attention to the tornado watch!

A few of our new arrivals shelved today. There will be so many more of these kinds of items coming out over next few months as they were part of the 10,000 book Harvard professor's collection we just picked up.

Afew of the nice books we put up today.

We just purchased an amazing collection of over 10,000 books from a retired Harvard professor. over 2000 poetry books to die for plus lots of western and eastern philosophy. a couple of hundred will hit the shelves this weekend and then continuously for some time afterwards. Photos of a few that we put up today.

Water-powered Air conditioning! The Mill at Shelburne Falls and its tenants including raven used books use water power for our utilities. Temperatures in the shop are very cool and you are welcome to escape the heat and hang out in our sitting area.

Reminder that we are hosting Shelburne falls resident and award winning Poet Lauren Schmidt this Saturday, June 15th at 6 pm.
There is construction on Conway street but will be open to both pedestrians and vehicles on weekends by late afternoon.

Lots of new things going on here. We purchased a big collection from a former Harvard University press editor whose focus was on Philosophy, ancient history, Mathematics, classical music, economics and more. We also purchased a large Medieval collection recently.

For events, we have two readings coming up - one on Friday and the other, a week from Saturday. Also, on June 14th, the Gaslight Tinkers (world music) will play an outside concert in the courtyard to benefit the Permaculture place at 7 pm.

Raven Used Books Poetry Series

presents a reading by Lauren Schmidt

Saturday, JUNE 15th 6 pm

Shelburne Falls resident Lauren Schmidt is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rattle, The Florida Review, The MacGuffin, The Progressive, and others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize, the Neil Postman Prize for Metaphor, The Janet B. McCabe Prize for Poetry, and the Bellevue Literary Review’s Vilcek Prize for Poetry. Her fourth collection, Filthy Labors, a finalist for the Brittingham/Pollak Poetry Prize, chronicles her volunteer teaching experience at a transitional housing program for homeless women in her native New Jersey.

Thanks to Susannah Lee and Jody Stewart who read their amazing poetry at the Raven last night to a full house.

Next up:

SORRY TO SAY THAT THE ARABIC MUSIC CONCERT FOR THIS SATURDAY IS SOLD OUT. We only had room for 70 at the bookstore. Thanks for all the interest.

Very nice art books in coming. Purchasing a nice collection from town with lots of art, architecture, nature and literature.