Join us for six Wednesdays of April & May for more discussions of short stories, poems, & essays! We will meet every Wednesday at 12:30 at the Pine Hills Branch of the Albany Public Library: https://www.albanypubliclibrary.org/locations/pine-hills/
Tackle the reading on your own time, and then come on Wednesdays ready to discuss it over a cup of tea. (Snacks to share are welcome, but by no means expected!)
But also, feel free to take the stories and set up your own meetings at a more convenient time and place with friends and neighbors!
Session IV
Session III
January 3, 2024 – The Light Princess, George MacDonald
The Light Princess (text) audio
January 10 2024 – Selections from Easy Essays, Peter Maurin
Works of Mercy Collection – We’ll be reading The Wisdom of Giving, Share Your Wealth, Why Not Be A Beggar?, Municipal Lodgings, Bishop-Shy, Passing the Buck, Hospices, Houses of Hospitality, Servants of the Poor, Scholars and Workers, Social Workers, and Workers, Rich and Poor. (Text only available)
January 17, 2024 – The Nightingale, Hans Christian Andersen
January 24, 2024 – Patterns, Amy Lowell
January 31, 2024 – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text) audio
February 7, 2024 – The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart (text) audio
Readings from Previous Sessions of Tea & Short Reads
Session II
July 5, 2023 – The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith
July 12, 2023 – On Lying in Bed, G. K. Chesterton
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/On_Lying_In_Bed.html
July 19, 2023 – The Waste Land, T.S Eliot
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
July 26, 2023 – The Rich Brother, Tobias Wolff
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1985/6/the-rich-brother
Aug. 2, 2023 – The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Wilde-Giant.pdf
Session I