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SUMMARY:Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary
DESCRIPTION:Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a reading with Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan (Poetry\, June 2014) and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016). \n\n\n\nRegistration required. This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grolier-poetry-book-shop-presents-cynthia-bargar-shari-caplan-and-hannah-larrabee-with-an-introduction-by-eileen-cleary/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Public Library Presents Story Time with Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join patrons of the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday\, January 6th to hear Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) read Sensitive. \n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cambridge-public-library-presents-story-time-with-sara-levine/
LOCATION:Cambridge Public Library (O’Neill Branch)\, 70 Rindge Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Shamar Hill\, Enzo Silon Surin\, and Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought\, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow. RSVP Required. \n\n\n\nShamar Hill\, a Black and Jewish writer\, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Cave Canem\, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published in the American Poetry Review\, the Missouri Review\, Washington Square Review\, and Poetry Northwest\, among others. He is working on his memoir\, In Defiance of All True Things\, and a poetry collection\, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born award-winning poet\, author\, educator\, speaker\, publisher and social advocate. He has taught\, performed\, and lectured at schools\, universities\, festivals and serves as a keynote speaker on topics such as social justice\, mental health reform\, the immigrant experience\, and racial disparities. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. He is also Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. \n\n\n\nMartha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry\, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022)\, and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry\, Dreaming the Mountain\, poems by Tue Sy (Milkweed\, 2023). Her tenth book of poems\, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019)\, won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; earlier books\, which have won several awards\, include three focusing on race and racism (Admit One: An American Scrapbook\, White Papers\, Blue Front). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and served for ten years as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-of-poetry-with-shamar-hill-enzo-silon-surin-and-martha-collins-2/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, New York\, 10038\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing for Healing Workshop with Amy Mevorach
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes the hardest stories to tell are the ones that most need to be told. This class will focus on creating a safe space and a practice of self-care as you write\, in prose or poetry\, with the intent to heal and release. Drawing from the psychological insights of Judith Hermann\, Natalie Goldberg\, and Gabor Mate\, you will discuss the ways the body holds onto trauma and how expressing ourselves through writing can help us heal. Sharing your writing with the group is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\nThis class will meet in-person at CCAE on Wednesdays for 8 sessions. \n\n\n\nAmy Mevorach (Nonfiction January 2023) has published essays and fiction in The New York Times Modern Love column\, Boulevard Magazine\, CALYX Journal\, Glimmer Train Stories\, and other publications. Her award-winning poem “Eight” has been screened at film festivals in L.A. and Toronto\, and is available to watch on her website amymevorach.com. Amy has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Lesley University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-healing-workshop-with-amy-mevorach/
LOCATION:Cambridge Center for Adult Education\, 42 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:D. Dina Friedman IMMIGRANTS Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Odyssey Bookshop in person on Tuesday\, January 23 at 7 PM\, as local author D. Dina Friedman (Fiction\, January 2016) presents her new collection\, Immigrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nWith sensitivity and wit\, Friedman creates a tableau of characters\, scenery\, sounds\, smells\, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. \n\n\n\nIn this compelling collection of stories\, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande\, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in multicultural New York\, where an old woman obsessed with anti-Semitism during the Black Death faces a moral dilemma when her housekeeper asks to borrow money to bail out her undocumented brother; and in a New England home\, where bats in the attic are threatening the last vestiges of stability for a divorced and desperate middle-aged white woman and her twenty-something Chinese American tenant. \n\n\n\nThese stories explore the deep ambiguities in how we perceive each other. Readers will grow to love Friedman’s characters\, flawed as they are\, as they grapple toward a deeper caring for the world around them. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nIn addition to this new short story collection for the adult market\, D. Dina Friedman is also the author of two award-winning novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon & Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux)\, and two books of poetry\, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2024). In Immigrants\, Friedman draws on her childhood in multicultural Queens\, her adulthood in rural New England\, her travels toIndia and the U.S./Mexico border\, and her years as an activist working for Middle East peace and immigration justice.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/d-dina-friedman-immigrants-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Odyssey Bookshop\, 9 College St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075\, United States
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