Join us for six Wednesdays of Easter for more discussions of short stories, poems, & essays!
We will meet every Wednesday at 12:30 at a new location: 12 Rosemont St., All Saints Catholic Church Parish Offices, in the “Upper Room” (immediately next to All Saints Academy).
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 VII
- July 9 – On the Role of Literature in Formation by Pope Francis
- July 13 – A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri
- July 26 – I See His Blood Upon the Rose by Joseph M. Punkett & The Gifford Girl by Leonard Feeney
- July 30 – The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton
- August 6 – The History of Red by Linda Hogan
- August 13 – The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Session VI
- April 23 – Fulton Sheen on Easter by Fulton Sheen
- April 20 – Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry
- May 7 – A Dialogue of Self and Soul by William Butler Yeats
- May 14 – The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
- May 21 – Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
- May 28 – Tobermory by Saki
Session V
- October 2 – All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
- October 9 – Tobit from the Hebrew Scriptures
- October 16 – October Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar & An October Garden by Christina Rossetti
- October 23 – Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oats
- October 30 – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
- November 6 – Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer’s Day by Marge Piercy
- November 13 – The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell & In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
- November 20 – Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Readings from Previous Sessions of Tea & Short Reads
Session IV
- April 10 – The Evil Eye by Mary Shelley
- April 17 – When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelo
- April 24 – The Appropriation of Cultures by Percival Everett
- May 1 – The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
- May 8 – The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston
- May 15 – Middle Passage by Robert Hayden
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 The Nightingale (text) audio
- January 24, 2024 – Patterns, Amy Lowell Patterns (text) audio
- 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
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