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SUMMARY:Book Challenges on the Rise: Support Your Freedom to Read
DESCRIPTION:“Freedom to Read” is a fundamental American right: your right to choose the ideas\, information\, and cultural experiences that are right for you and your family. That right is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. And your public library supports that right by providing free and open access to all. Book bans infringe on that right. When people demand that libraries remove books\, they deny you and others the right to choose. \n\n\n\nThe American Library Association (ALA) reports more book challenges in 2022 than any previous year. This Banned Books Week webinar\, moderated by syndicated columnist Heidi Stevens\, will share how to effectively support intellectual freedom. It will examine the current state of book challenges\, Illinois’ legislative response\, and the implications of censorship on communities with this panel of experts:  \n\n\n\n\nAlexi Giannoulias\, Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian\n\n\n\nMonica Harris\, executive director\, Reaching Across Illinois Library System\n\n\n\nJasmine Warga (WFYP\, June 2013)\, author of challenged books; The Shape of Thunder and Other Words for Home\n\n\n\nJarrett Dapier\, author of; Jazz for Lunch and freedom to read advocate\n\n\n\n\nThis presentation is co-hosted by multiple Illinois libraries. This presentation will not be recorded.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-challenges-on-the-rise-support-your-freedom-to-read/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Stories of Hope: Children's Authors/Allies Fighting Censorship
DESCRIPTION:30 authors and allies of children’s literature (see cast below) tell short\, true stories of hope. 100% of proceeds go to PEN America to continue the fight against censorship of books and authors. \n\n\n\nSTARRING: \n\n\n\nAnika Aldamuy Denise * Lesa Cline-Ransome * Lisa Fipps * Daniel Handler * Kimberly Latrice Jones * Erin Entrada Kelly * Hena Khan * Adib Khorram * Jo Knowles * Gail Carson Levine * Alex London * Andrea Loney * Jessica Love * Yuyi Morales * Maulik Pancholy * Andrea Davis Pinkney * Toby Price * NoNieqa Ramos * Raul the Third * Jewell Parker Rhodes * Katie Rinderle * Alex Sanchez * Eliot Schrefer * Jon Scieszka * Laurel Snyder * Christina Soontornvat * Don Tate * Mychal Threets * Andrea Wang (WFYP\, June 2011) * Paul O. Zelinsky
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/stories-of-hope-childrens-authors-allies-fighting-censorship/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon - Baldwin on Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon is a series of digital panel discussions exploring the literature and life of 20th-century author and activist James Baldwin. \n\n\n\nJames Baldwin (1924 – 1987) was an American essayist\, novelist\, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice in the 20th century. \n\n\n\nThe topic of this salon is ‘Baldwin on Friendship’. James Baldwin\, though he was a great writer\, was not alone. His contemporaries included Nikki Giovanni\, Maya Angelou\, Toni Morrison\, Richard Wright\, and Beauford Delaney\, to name but a few. This discussion will explore the importance of friendship in Baldwin’s growth as a writer\, when he was called out with love (and sometimes without!)\, and how community informed his practice for the better. \n\n\n\nGuests on the panel include Ghanaian-British author and publisher Nii Ayikwei Parkes (flipped eye press)\, Moses McKenzie (An Olive Grove in Ends) and Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman. The panel will be chaired by US-Caribbean editor and publicist Lisa Pegram (Poetry\, June 2012). \n\n\n\nACCESS: This event is BSL interpreted. \n\n\n\nConversations with Baldwin: The Salon is part of Conversations with Baldwin\, a festival celebrating the life and work of one of the 20th century’s greatest American authors\, James Baldwin. Conversations with Baldwin is produced by Words of Colour and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/conversations-with-baldwin-the-salon-baldwin-on-friendship/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:CCW Book Launch: Nada Samih-Rotondo presents "All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir"
DESCRIPTION:Join Cambridge Common Writers as we celebrate the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012)’s\, All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir. A debut work from a Palestinian-American author\, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author’s ancestral origins–the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine–to her birthplace of Kuwait\, eventually landing on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/ccw-book-launch-nada-samih-rotondo-presents-all-water-has-perfect-memory-a-memoir/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for "Sensitive" by Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join RJ Julia Independent Booksellers to celebrate the launch of Sara Levine’s (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) latest picture book\, Sensitive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA unique and powerful look at the ways being sensitive and having big feelings is a strength \n\n\n\n“You feel way too much.” / “Will you stop being dramatic?“ \n\n\n\nThis tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense\, too sensitive\, too much. She’s told to grow a thicker skin\, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an author\, educator\, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series\, Germs Up Close\, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize\, Utah Beehive Book Award\, Cook Prize finalist\, Monarch Award master list\, and Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-for-sensitive-by-sara-levine/
LOCATION:RJ Julia Independent Booksellers\, 768 Boston Post Road\, Madison\, Connecticut\, 06443\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:City Books OcTBRfest: Bonita Lee Penn "Every Morning a Foot is Looking for My Neck"
DESCRIPTION:Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry\, January 2015) reads from her chapbook\, “Every Morning a Foot is Looking for My Neck” at the City Books OcTBRfest event.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/city-books-octbrfest-bonita-lee-penn-every-morning-a-foot-is-looking-for-my-neck/
LOCATION:City Books\, 908 Galveston Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, 15233\, United States
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SUMMARY:𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗵-𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 Heartleaf Books
DESCRIPTION:𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 takes us from the author’s ancestral roots along the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine\, to the shores of Rhode Island. Nada Samih-Rotondo’s (Fiction\, June 2012) powerful narrative unravels the layers of silence within families\, revealing untold stories with an enchanting blend of folklore that explores the profound connection between our bodies\, our ancestors\, and the Earth itself.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/%f0%9d%97%a1%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%b1%f0%9d%97%ae-%f0%9d%97%a6%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%ba%f0%9d%97%b6%f0%9d%97%b5-%f0%9d%97%a5%f0%9d%97%bc%f0%9d%98%81%f0%9d%97%bc%f0%9d%97%bb%f0%9d%97%b1%f0%9d%97%bc/
LOCATION:Heartleaf Books\, 374 Atwells Ave\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:SALT THE WATER | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Author Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017) will be joined by conversation partner Ebony LaDelle and special guest Rasheed Copeland. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and after the event\, and Candice will be signing following the program. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all. The program begins at 6:00 pm\, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of SALT THE WATER will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will NOT be livestreamed. \n\n\n\nGuests should RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books. \n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington\, DC\, and Brooklyn\, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony\, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and\, in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water is their third novel. \n\n\n\nEbony LaDelle is the author of Love Radio—which was People magazine’s best book of the summer\, Apple Books’s best book of 2022\, an Amazon’s Editor Pick\, and featured on the Today show. Prior to being an author\, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins\, among others. Born in Michigan\, awoken at Howard University\, and cultivated in Brooklyn\, Ebony can usually be found eating out somewhere or being the undisputed Mom Friend of any group. You can visit her online at EbonyLaDelle.com and follow her on social at @EbonyLaDelle. \n\n\n\nRasheed Copeland is a native of Washington\, DC. He is a father and author of Mud Jubilee (Self-published\, 2021) and The Book of Silence: Manhood as a Pseudoscience (Sergeant Press\, 2015). He is a multiple recipient of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award and has performed and facilitated writing workshops across the country and internationally. He placed 2nd in the world at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam. His work has been featured in online publications such as Poets.org\, Split This Rock\, and the Crab Orchard Review.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/salt-the-water-a-busboys-and-poets-books-presentation/
LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 450 K Street NW\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Meaningful Parent-Child Conversations with Rebecca Rolland
DESCRIPTION:Join Doing Good Together for a live-streamed parent webinar by Rebecca Rolland (Fiction\, June 2017)\, Harvard professor and author of The Art of Talking with Children. Following the event\, registered attendees will receive a webinar recording\, Festival of Giving Activity Guide and be added to the Doing Good Together monthly newsletter\, packed with kindness tips and resources.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/meaningful-parent-child-conversations-with-rebecca-rolland/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Candice Iloh: Salt the Water w/ Ibi Zoboi & Mila Myles
DESCRIPTION:From Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017)\, a verse novel about Cerulean Gene\, a nonbinary Black teenager searching for a new way to do more than survive in post-pandemic America. \n\n\n\nCerulean and their friends went into senior year—the first year of normal school after the pandemic—with a plan: keep their heads down in class\, save money\, and get the hell out of the Bronx once they graduate. If teachers are going to force them to read Huckleberry Finn\, then they can’t blame kids for “lighting out for the territory.” Cerulean is convinced that there must be somewhere better than the Bronx and is focused on learning how to grow and make food so they can all be self-sufficient when they finally make their break. \n\n\n\nBurned-out teachers and their father’s badly timed workplace accident send Cerulean reeling off course\, but Bronx babies are resiliant and resourceful\, and Salt the Water is ultimately a radically hopeful vision of life beyond mere survival. \n\n\n\nThis event will be in-person and on YouTube Live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer from the Midwest by way of Washington\, D.C. and Brooklyn\, New York whose books center home\, self-awareness\, and Black sustainability. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Break This House is their second novel. \n\n\n\nIbi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and her debut middle grade novel\, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich\, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride\, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice\, and editor of the anthology\, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller\, Punching the Air\, is a YA novel in verse\, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Raised in New York City\, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children. \n\n\n\nMila Myles is a writer/comedian\, actor\, host and trans media specialist who resides and performs in both NY & LA. They have been featured on HBO\, Allure\, The New York Film Fest\, providence film fest\, NowThisNews and in Vogue online. Salt The Water is their first audiobook.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/candice-iloh-salt-the-water-w-ibi-zoboi-mila-myles/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights Branch\, 286 Cadman Plaza West\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Books Are Magic":MAILTO:hello@booksaremagic.net
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SUMMARY:Writing Home/Homeland with Nancy Agabian\, Nada Samih-Rotondo & Jared Harél
DESCRIPTION:Join Books on the Square on Friday\, October 13th at 7:00 p.m. for Writing Home/Homeland with Nancy Abagian\, Nada Samih-Rotondo\, and Jared Harel. \n\n\n\nThe Fear of Large and Small Nations  by Nancy Abagian  \n\n\n\nIn The Fear of Large and Small Nations\, feminist writer and teacher Natalee—aka Na—seeks to reclaim her cultural roots in Armenia only to be confronted with the many contradictions of being a diasporan. When she falls for a charismatic younger man and returns with him to New York City\, Na becomes trapped in an abusive web of codependency\, bound by intergenerational trauma\, political ideals\, and\, above all\, love. Written in gripping short stories interspersed with intimate journal entries and blog posts\, the fragmented narrative reveals what is lost in the tightrope passage between cultures ravaged by violence and colonialism—and what is gained when Na seizes control of her story\, pulsating in its many shades and realities\, daring to be witnessed. \n\n\n\nNancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak\, a mixed genre collection of poems\, short prose\, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage\, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter\, a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family’s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize. In 2021\, Nancy received the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary. Her novel The Fear of Large and Small Nations\, a multilayered epic on Armenian diaspora-homeland relationships\, was honored as a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. She is currently working on a personal essay collection\, In-Between Mouthfuls. \n\n\n\nNancy has an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She taught creative writing at Queens College for ten years as an adjunct\, where she was awarded for excellence in teaching in 2012. She has been teaching in the Writing Program at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University since 2009.  She recently relocated to Massachusetts to care for her parents. Her mother passed away in 2022; Nancy continues to care for her father. \n\n\n\nAll Water has Perfect Memory: A Memoir by Nada Samih-Rotondo \n\n\n\nLife changed forever for six-year-old Nada following Iraq’s invasion of her birth country\, Kuwait\, and subsequent immigration to the United States with her maternal family. Just as she finally settles into her strange new life apart from her father in Rhode Island\, learns English\, and grasps the fact that she is not merely visiting but is here to stay\, life throws other surprises her way to forever change her world. \n\n\n\nA debut work from a Palestinian American author\, All Water Has a Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author’s ancestral origins- the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine\, to her birthplace of Kuwait\, eventually landing on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The narrative confronts generations of silence and\, ultimately\, revelation with an imaginative blend of folklore and history that explores the relationship between our bodies\, ancestors\, and the Earth. The work explores the way the author is intertwined with her maternal line while reuniting with her father after a 30-year separation. \n\n\n\nVoices once hidden in the waters of our bodies are amplified and released to forever alter the landscape\, breaking cycles and seeding an audacious hope interconnected to lands past and present. \n\n\n\nNada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer\, educator\, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College\, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review\, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine\, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works at Brown University. \n\n\n\nLet Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél \n\n\n\nLet Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying\, wondrous\, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear\, dynamic verses that disarm then strike\, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity\, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning\, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding\, humor and grief. \n\n\n\n“I will try\,” he admits\, “to be better than myself\, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope\, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss\, of living for joy while fearing the worst. \n\n\n\nJared Harél is the author of Go Because I Love You. He has been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review and the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Bennington Review\, New Ohio Review\, Ploughshares\, Poem-a-Day\, the Southern Review\, and The Sun. Harél teaches writing\, plays drums\, and lives in Westchester\, New York\, with his wife and two children.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-home-homeland-with-nancy-agabian-nada-samih-rotondo-jared-harel/
LOCATION:Books on the Square\, 471 Angell Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02906\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Sara Levine\, author of Sensitive
DESCRIPTION:Porter Square Books welcomes Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) for an author talk and book signing in celebration of the launch of her new book\, Sensitive! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“You feel way too much.” / “Will you stop being dramatic?” \n\n\n\nThis tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense\, too sensitive\, too much. She’s told to grow a thicker skin\, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an award-winning picture book author\, veterinarian and educator. Sensitive is her tenth book\, and she has four more coming out in the next few years. As a child\, she was often told that she was too sensitive and needed to grow a thicker skin. Her skin may not have gotten thicker since then\, but she has learned to appreciate her sensitivity and the ways it helps her create books\, work with animals and care for children. Visit Sara online at http://www.saralevinebooks.com/
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-with-sara-levine-author-of-sensitive/
LOCATION:Porter Square Books\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents Naomi Mulvihill and Hilary Sallick
DESCRIPTION:Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a hybrid reading with Naomi Mulvihill and Hilary Sallick with an introduction by Lloyd Schwartz. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom. Registration Required. \n\n\n\nNaomi Mulvihill (Poetry\, 2011) was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MA. Her chapbook\, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press)\, won the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her first full length volume of poems\, The Knife Thrower’s Girl\, was awarded the 2022 Washington Prize (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, New Orleans Review\, Salamander\, Cimarron\, West Branch and others\, and featured in Verse Daily. Naomi’s essays on language and learning have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and Harvard Educational Review. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools. \n\n\n\nHilary Sallick is the author of two full-length poetry collections\, Love Is A Shore (Lily Poetry Review Books) and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press). Her poems appear in Notre Dame Review\, Leon Literary Review\, Vita Poetica\, Ibbetson Street\, and other journals. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy\, she also serves on the Board of the New England Poetry Club. She lives and works in Somerville\, MA.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grolier-poetry-book-shop-presents-naomi-mulvihill-and-hilary-sallick/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:B&N Multi-Genre Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Join local authors as the Holyoke\, MA Barnes & Noble location for a meet and greet and book signing. \n\n\n\nLocal authors: \n\n\n\n\nAlexander Reed\n\n\n\nArleta Rae\n\n\n\nBrittany Czarnecki\n\n\n\nCelia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction\, 2008)\n\n\n\nHeidi Parker Colonna\n\n\n\nJ.J. Alo\n\n\n\nJim Price\n\n\n\nLiza Ketchum\n\n\n\nLM Kaplin\n\n\n\nLomel T\n\n\n\nMatthew Bartlett\n\n\n\nNadija Mujagic\n\n\n\nRebecca Rowland\n\n\n\nRick Stromoski\n\n\n\nSuzanne Kozikowski\n\n\n\nWes Dyson
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/bn-multi-genre-author-event/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble – Holyoke\, 7 Holyoke Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Steamboat Mountain Reading Series presents Natalie Padilla Young and Cindy King
DESCRIPTION:The Steamboat Mountain Springs Reading Series is excited to host Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry\, January 2009) and Cindy King at the K2 Gallery in Helper\, Utah. \n\n\n\nNatalie is the author of All of This Was Once Under Water\, now available from Quarter Press. The first run is a limited-edition\, full-color hardcover book\, illustrated beautifully by the German artist Maximiliane Spieß. It is a speculative collection of poems grounded in Utah’s history and scenery. \n\n\n\nCindy King’s most recent publications include poems in The Sun\, Callaloo\, North American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Antioch Review\, African American Review\, American Literary Review\, TriQuarterly\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gettysburg Review\, River Styx\, Cincinnati Review\, and elsewhere. You can hear her online on American Weekend\, a production of National Public Radio\, at weekendamerica.publicradio.org\, rhinopoetry.org\, and at cortlandreview.com. Her work has also been chosen by former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to appear on NPR’s The Slowdown. Her freelance work can be found at artsATL.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/steamboat-mountain-reading-series-presents-natalie-padilla-young-and-cindy-king/
LOCATION:K2 Gallery\, 102 S Main St\, Helper\, Utah\, 84526-1536\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Rebecca Faulkner and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Readings by: \n\n\n\n\nRebecca Faulkner\n\n\n\nMolly Zhu\n\n\n\nRobbie Gamble (Poetry/Nonfiction\, January 2017/June 2020)\n\n\n\nAnna Genevieve Winham\n\n\n\nKyle Studstill\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending\, (Write Bloody Press\, 2023) her work appears in New York Quarterly\, The Maine Review\, The Poetry Society of New York\, CALYX Press\, Berkeley Poetry Review and elsewhere. She is a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women\, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is currently at work on her second collection\, exploring female identity and artistic endeavor. www.rebeccafaulknerpoet.com \n\n\n\nMolly Zhu is a Chinese American poet and attorney. She likes to write about alter egos\, chasms\, dreams\, tears\, rage\, translation and the women in her life. She was twice nominated for Pushcart prizes and has been published in both print and online journals including Hobart Pulp\, the Ghost City Press\, and Bodega Magazine\, among others. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Passengers Journal\, and she is the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize awarded by the Cordella Press. Her debut chapbook\, Asian American Translations\, is now available for purchase. \n\n\n\nRobbie Gamble is the author of A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press\, 2022). His poems have appeared in Whale Road Review\, Lunch Ticket\, Poet Lore\, Post Road\, Salamander\, and The Sun. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize\, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices\, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont. www.robbiegamble.com \n\n\n\nAnna Genevieve Winham is an award-winning writer who serves as the Development Director for PSNY\, the EIC for Passengers Journal\, and the Marketing Director for EdTech startup Biblionasium. She also performs in the Poetry Brothel\, and she previously edited Oxford Public Philosophy. Anna writes at the crossroads of science and the sublime\, cyborgs and the surreal\, and you’ll find her work in Ninth Letter\, New York Quarterly\, the Oxford Review of Books\, Brooklyn Magazine\, and Meetinghouse Magazine online among others. While attending Dartmouth College (which was the pits)\, she won the Stanley Prize for experimental essay and the Kaminsky Family Fund Award. She’s working on her novel—ask her about it\, if you dare. \n\n\n\nKyle Studstill is a Brooklyn-based performance poet\, word artist\, and visual artist. His work is about finding deep humility\, about reckoning with our own vivid and terrifying self-awareness\, and about being better humans in a more-than-human world. His story-driven writing has appeared in Monocle Magazine\, CreativeMornings\, and Fast Company. His visual art has been featured by NYC street art pillars Up Magazine\, Sour Mouse\, 188 Allen and Soiree Henzo. His performance poetry has been featured by the Poetry Brothel\, Inspired Word NYC\, and the New York City Poetry Festival.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/poetry-reading-with-rebecca-faulkner-and-guests/
LOCATION:Housing Works Bookstore\, 126 Crosby St\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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