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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T190000
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SUMMARY:Books are Magic - Candice Iloh: Every Body Looking w/ Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Every Body Looking is a novel of a young woman’s struggle to carve a place for herself in a world of deeply conflicting messages. Told entirely in verse\, Ada’s story encompasses her earliest memories as a child\, including her abuse at the hands of a young cousin\, her mother’s rejection and descent into addiction\, and her father’s attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria. The present-tense of the book is Ada’s first year at a Historically Black College\, where she must finally confront the fundamental conflict between who her family says she should be and what her body tells her she must be. \n\n\n\nCandice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017) is a first generation Nigerian-American writer\, teaching artist\, and youth educator. She has performed her work around the country\, most notably at Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City\, the Women in Poetry & Hip Hop celebration at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore (where she performed as Nikki Giovanni)\, and as part of the Africa In Motion performing arts series at the National Museum of African Art in Washington\, DC. She is a graduate of Howard University and holds an MFA in writing from Lesley University. Her work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary and VONA among many others. This is her first novel. www.becomher.com. Photo credit to Chanel Govreau \n\n\n\nJason Reynolds (WFYP\, Core Faculty) is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason’s many books include Miles Morales: Spider Man\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Correta Scott King Honor\, and Look Both Ways\, which was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book\, Stamped: Racism\, Antiracism\, and You\, is a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi. Recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature\, Jason has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, and CBS This Morning. He is on faculty at Lesley University\, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington\, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/books-are-magic-candice-iloh-every-body-looking-w-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Books Are Magic":MAILTO:hello@booksaremagic.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T190000
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SUMMARY:Monday Night Reading Series with SigWorks: At the Full Yum by Rahima Rice
DESCRIPTION:Complete opposites Darecia and Jacob struggle to civilly co-parent their teenage son\, Ohaji. When a riot that breaks out after a Black teenager is killed by police causes a lockdown\, the two are trapped together in their Michigan Park neighborhood – with Ohaji nowhere to be found. The same night is then relived through an alternate reality in a thrilling and captivating reflection of DC – and those who call it home – outside the political bubble. \n\n\n\nAt the Full Yum is presented as part of SigWorks: Monday Night Play Readings\, an initiative that highlights and supports the work of DMV and regional playwrights. This series is an opportunity for playwrights\, actors\, directors\, and patrons to explore new plays in a fun and informal environment.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/monday-night-reading-series-with-sigworks-at-the-full-yum-by-rahima-rice/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
ORGANIZER;CN="The 4208 Group":MAILTO:info@the4208group.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T120000
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SUMMARY:"Designing Wonder" Book Launch in AltspaceVR with Caitlin Krause
DESCRIPTION:Designing Wonder: Leading Transformative Experiences in Virtual Reality by Caitlin Krause is a masterful guide on how to create VR experiences with emotional resonance and impact. She introduces a new methodology for how to design meaningful experiences in VR\, filled with wonder\, exploring the virtual concepts for experiences and education from The Hero’s VR Journey to Maslow Before Bloom. The book is about experience design from education to corporate training\, and those specializing in social groups in VR.  \n\n\n\nJoin Educators in VR as we celebrate the launch of this ground-breaking book that we expect will change how you design and develop virtual worlds and play and teach within them (AltspaceVR required).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/designing-wonder-book-launch-in-altspacevr-with-caitlin-krause/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200911T193000
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Common Presents: An Online Reading with Lesley MFA Alums and Mentors
DESCRIPTION:If you’re nostalgic for the on-campus residencies of old\, want to hear what your fellow classmates and your mentors have been working on since graduation\, or if you’re curious just what exactly you can do with an MFA in Creative Writing\, here’s your chance to hear alums and faculty from the Lesley University low-res MFA program in creative writing read their work — for free! \n\n\n\nCome hear from Lesley MFA writers Karin Cecile Davidson\, Laurie Foos\, Andrea Read\, Steven Cramer\, Bridget Weigel\, Pam Petro\, Saraciea Fennell\, Rahima Rice\, and other special guests representing the different genres of writing available through the program. \n\n\n\nWe’d love to have you join us for this event — and if you know prospective Lesley MFA students\, please invite them to come as well!After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the reading. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cambridge-common-presents-an-online-reading-with-lesley-mfa-alums-and-mentors/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event,Mentor Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Cambridge Common Writers":MAILTO:lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T140000
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SUMMARY:Powell's Books Presents Megan Margulies in Conversation with Jacque Nodell
DESCRIPTION:Megan Margulies (Nonfiction\, June 2008) discusses her new memoir\, My Captain America\, in conversation with Jacque Nodell\, author of How to Go Steady\, curator of the blog Sequential Crush\, and granddaughter of Martin Nodell\, creator of the original Green Lantern.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/powells-books-presents-megan-margulies-in-conversation-with-jacque-nodell/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20200814T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20200814T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Reading: Lauren Camp\, July Westhale\, and Michael Mercurio
DESCRIPTION:Join Lesley MFA alums July Westhale (Poetry\, June 2013) and Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017)  for an online zoom reading with poet Lauren Camp to celebrate her new book launch for Took House. \n\n\n\nLauren Camp is the author of five books\, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press\, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, Pleiades\, Poet Lore\, Slice\, DIAGRAM and other journals. Honors include the Dorset Prize\, a fellowship from the Black Earth Institute\, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award\, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin\, Turkish\, Spanish and Arabic. In 2020\, she was selected to be one of 100 artists and storytellers for 100 Offerings of Peace. www.laurencamp.com \n\n\n\nMichael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts\, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly the Amherst Poetry Festival.) Michael’s poems have appeared in Palette Poetry\, Sugar House Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Rust + Moth\, and elsewhere. His criticism has appeared in the Lily Poetry Review and Coal Hill Review. In addition\, Michael is on the board of Faraday Publishing\, a non-profit press with the mission of amplifying historically marginalized voices. He’s never met a Miniature Schnauzer he didn’t like. \n\n\n\nJuly Westhale is an essayist\, translator\, and the award-winning author of Trailer Trash\, and Via Negativa\, which Publishers Weekly called “stunning” in a starred review. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s\, The National Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, CALYX\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and The Huffington Post\, among others. She also has an inventively-named collection of salty chapbooks. www.julywesthale.com
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/zoom-reading-lauren-camp-july-westhale-and-michael-mercurio/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200804T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: MY CAPTAIN AMERICA by Megan Margulies
DESCRIPTION:Join Megan Margulies (Nonfiction\, June 2008) in conversation with Rachel Manley (Nonfiction Mentor) for the publication of her memoir of her grandfather\, MY CAPTAIN AMERICA.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-my-captain-america-by-megan-margulies/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200716T193000
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SUMMARY:Writers For These Times: A Scoundrel Time Reading and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Scoundrel Time presents recent works of nonfiction and poetry from the journal\, addressing the pandemic and racial justice as a part of the opening night of the online 1455 Summer Literary Festival. Writers include our own Robbie Gamble who will join in on a discussion of ways art can engage with the political world. A Q&A will follow the readings.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writers-for-these-times-a-scoundrel-time-reading-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T190000
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SUMMARY:OREGON ONLINE: DG Footlights™ feat. Bartow by Greg Berman
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alissa Jessup. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: Bobby Bermea\, Thea Constantine\, Michelle Matlock\, Duane Minard\, Joshua Weinstein\, & Barbie Wu. \n\n\n\nParalyzed after a major stroke\, Oregonian Contemporary artist\, Rick Bartow and a young med student attempt their own form of therapy by entering Bartow’s art as expressions of prior traumas\, lost indigenous heritage\, abstract animal paintings\, sculptures\, masks\, and lost songs. This is a theatrical exploration of recovery adapted from Rick Bartow’s retrospective and accompanying book Things You Know But Cannot Explain. \n\n\n\nDG Footlights™ is a program\, created and moderated by the Dramatists Guild\, that connects dramatists with free space in which to hold a public reading of a new work that is currently in development. This initiative operates on a space-grant model: a representative from the Guild will arrange for a venue to donate space during allocated dates and times\, and will ensure that the space is available for dramatists to use to present a self-produced reading to the public\, with an optional feedback session following the reading. Attendance is always free and open to all.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/oregon-online-dg-footlights-feat-bartow-by-greg-berman/
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200702T183000
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SUMMARY:Amherst Arts Night Poetry Reading Series (REMOTE PROGRAM)
DESCRIPTION:During the pandemic\, the Emily Dickinson Museum is celebrating monthly Amherst Arts Night Plus with remote poetry readings every first Thursday. This reading will feature Hannah Larrabee\, Nathan McClain\, and our own Michael Mercurio. \n\n\n\nThis program is free to attend but registration is required.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/amherst-arts-night-poetry-reading-series-remote-program/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200701T203000
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SUMMARY:THE UNDESIRABLES: A Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:What would Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner look like in the dystopian future of a second Trump term? An immigrant family’s personal\, sometimes comedic drama takes a sharp turn into a nightmare world created by heartless immigration policies. Never say\, “it couldn’t happen here.” It’s about politics. It’s about love. It’s about history repeating itself. Join us for a virtual reading on Zoom of The Undesirables: a one-act play by Wendy Ewan and directed by Rhiannon Vaughn
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-undesirables-a-virtual-reading/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200518
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SUMMARY:Inside the Sun Virtual Book Tour with Alexis Marie Chute
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a virtual promotion of Alexis Marie Chute’s new book–Inside the Sun\, the final installment in The 8th Island Trilogy. Check back on May 17th for an author Q&A\, photos\, and an excerpt from Inside the Sun (Warning: this will contain spoilers for Books 1 and 2 of the series).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/inside-the-sun-virtual-book-tour/
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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