STOCKBRIDGE — Berkshire author Catherine Arnold will host a virtual reading on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. with fellow Bauhan Publishing author Richard Smith, sponsored by the Writer’s Center, which offers writing workshops and literary events virtually and nationwide.

Arnold’s second book of poetry, The Apple Tree, was published by Bauhan in April. Her first book, Receipt for Lost Words, won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her poems and prose have appeared in the Cincinnati Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Mid-American Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications.

Richard Smith’s first book, Not a Soul but Us, is a narrative in sonnets about the plague pandemic in mid-14th-century England. It won the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was released in 2022 by Bauhan Publishing. In April 2026, Bauhan will publish Beyond Where Words Can Go: A Novel in 200 Sonnets, a narrative about a group of Tudor-era Benedictine monks.

The reading is free to attend and open to the public. Click here to receive the Zoom link.