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SUMMARY:Pamela Petro Presents "The Long Field"
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) has written a  a meditation on the Welsh notion of hiraeth\, which translates as “the long field\,” a metaphor for homesickness and longing. Hiraeth expands in meaning as Petro weaves together Welsh stories with stories of her own life\, as a gay woman\, the survivor of a train wreck\, and the daughter of a parent with dementia. The Long Field was named a finalist for the Wales Book of the Year  Award and was listed on two top 10 lists for travel writing.Pamela Petro is the author of four other books\, including The Slow Breath of Stone and the artist book AfterShadows: A Grand Canyon Narrative. She teaches creative writing at Smith College and in Lesley University’s MFA program. She is co-director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Wales.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pamela-petro-presents-the-long-field/
LOCATION:Broadside Bookshop\, 247 Main Street\, Northampton\, Massachusetts\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Broadside Bookshop":MAILTO:roz@broadsidebooks.com
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SUMMARY:Exploring Hiraeth - Presented by Pam Petro
DESCRIPTION:Pam Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) is an author\, artist\, and educator living in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She was recently made an honorary Fellow of the University of Wales\, and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas\, Nature and the Written Word\, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. \n\n\n\nShe went to Brown University as an undergrad\, and to The University of Wales\, Trinity St David\, for her Master’s Degree in Word and Image Studies. She also studied at the Sorbonne\, Paris I\, and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris\, France. She has spent years studying both French and Welsh but can’t speak either one very well. \n\n\n\nIn high school Pamela’s teachers told her she’d have to choose between visual art and writing\, and she balked. She wanted to do both. And she’s been trying to combine words and images ever since. Her words bleed into images\, and images into words. Long may the two be more powerful together!
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/exploring-hiraeth-presented-by-pam-petro/
LOCATION:Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel\, 333 South 13th Street\, Lincoln\, Nebraska\, 68508\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="North American Festival of Wales":MAILTO:IHQ@theWNAA.org
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Pamela Petro - The Long Field - Francie & Finch Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Francie & Finch Bookshop to welcome Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) as she introduces her newest memoir. \n\n\n\nThe publication of The Long Field will coincide with the Welsh American Festival happening from August 30th – September 3 at the Marriott Hotel in Lincoln. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:In The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. \n\n\n\nA finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph‘s and Financial Times’s Top 10 lists for travel writing\, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.” \n\n\n\nAbout the Author:Pamela Petro is an author\, artist\, and educator living in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz. She has written four books of creative nonfiction including her latest\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir\, as well as Travels in an Old Tongue\, also about Wales; Sitting up with the Dead\, about the American South; and The Slow Breath of Stone\, about Southwest France. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, The Paris Review\, and others. She was shortlisted in 2022 for The Wales Book of the Year Award and has received literary and visual arts residencies from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, The Black Rock Arts Foundation\, and The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St Davids\, where she is also a Fellow. She has widely exhibited her photography and has also created an artist book\, AfterShadows – A Grand Canyon Narrative\, and a graphic script\, Under Paradise Valley.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/visiting-author-pamela-petro-the-long-field-francie-finch-bookshop/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, Nebraska\, 68508\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Francie & Finch Bookshop":MAILTO:leslie@francieandfinch.com
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SUMMARY:Pam Petro Book Launch ~ The Long Field
DESCRIPTION:Please join MainStreet BookEnds of Warner to celebrate the US book launch of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence – A Memoir with author Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) in conversation with David Elliott (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). \n\n\n\nHiraeth is a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate. Literally\, it can mean “long field” but generally translates into English\, inadequately\, as “homesickness.” At heart\, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place\, person\, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. \n\n\n\nIn The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is a writer\, artist\, and educator and the author of four books\, including Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South (published by Arcade) and Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, Paris Review\, and others. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA Program\, and is co-director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, where she is also a Fellow. Pamela is also a visual artist who lives in in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pam-petro-book-launch-the-long-field/
LOCATION:MainStreet BookEnds of Warner\, 16 East Main Street\, Warner\, New Hampshire\, 03278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author - Pamela Petro at Books on the Square
DESCRIPTION:Join Books on the Square on Thursday\, August 24th at 6:00 p.m. for a reading and discussion with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of The Long Field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHiraeth is a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate. Literally\, it can mean “long field” but generally translates into English\, inadequately\, as “homesickness.” At heart\, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place\, person\, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence.  In The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph’s and Financial Times’s Top 10 lists for travel writing\, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.” \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is a writer\, artist\, and educator and the author of four books\, including Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South (published by Arcade) and Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, Paris Review\, and others. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and in Lesley University’s MFA Program\, and is codirector of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, where she is a fellow. Pamela is also a visual artist who lives in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/meet-the-author-pamela-petro-at-books-on-the-square/
LOCATION:Books on the Square\, 471 Angell Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02906\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Books on the Square":MAILTO:events@booksq.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T120000
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CREATED:20230504T232213Z
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SUMMARY:Montclair Literary Festival -- Mermaid and Pirate with Tracey Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Mermaid and Pirate cannot understand each other. They speak different languages and come from different worlds. But they’re quick to lend a hand\, or a tail\, when the sky grows stormy and waters get rough\, and a friendship is born. Hear author Tracey Baptiste (MFA Writing Faculty\, WFYP) tell her story of a shared adventure where kindness and generosity speak louder than words. Recommended for ages 3-7.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/montclair-literary-festival-mermaid-and-pirate-with-tracey-baptiste/
LOCATION:Montclair Literary Festival\, South Fullerton Ave\, Montclair\, New Jersey\, 07042\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Montclair Public Library":MAILTO:reference@montclairlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230312T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230312T160000
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CREATED:20230305T025042Z
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SUMMARY:The Long Field with Pamela Petro in Conversation with Annie Garthwaite
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of the paperback of Pamela Petro (MFA Writing Faculty\, Nonfiction & Comics & Graphic Novels)‘s memoir\, The Long Field. Refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-long-field-with-pamela-petro-in-conversation-with-annie-garthwaite/
LOCATION:St Chad’s Church Hall\, 1 St Chad's Terrace\, Shrewsbury\, SY1 1JL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pengwern Books":MAILTO:pengwernbooks@live.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20230228T013811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T013812Z
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SUMMARY:Writers LIVE! Adrian Matejka with Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join the Enoch Pratt Free Library for an evening with award-winning authors Adrian Matejka (MFA Writing Faculty\, Poetry) and Jason Reynolds (MFA Writing Faculty\, WFYP).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writers-live-adrian-matejka-with-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:Enoch Pratt Free Library\, 400 Cathedral Street\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 21201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221213T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221213T143000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20221212T161212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T161213Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Reading with Laurie Foos
DESCRIPTION:Laurie Foos (MFA Writing Faculty; Fiction) will be giving a reading from her most recent book\, THE OTHER\, and participating in a Q & A with Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center. The live event will be streamed on the @PBAdultLiteracyCenter Facebook page and their LinkedIn account.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/virtual-author-reading-with-laurie-foos/
LOCATION:PBALC Facebook Page
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-Other.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center":MAILTO:info@pbalc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T183000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20221130T193724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T193725Z
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SUMMARY:A Reading from Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
DESCRIPTION:Author A.J. Verdelle will read from her book Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison at the McCosh Hall at Princeton University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/a-reading-from-miss-chloe-a-memoir-of-a-literary-friendship-with-toni-morrison/
LOCATION:McCosh Hall 40\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, New Jersey\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of English at Princeton":MAILTO:english@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T235959
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20220827T224346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220827T224347Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Brattleboro Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Brattleboro Literary Festival will take place live October 13-16 in downtown Brattleboro. Featuring readings from various CCW members\, including Jason Reynolds (MFA Writing Faculty\, WFYP)\, Steven Cramer (MFA Writing Faculty\, Poetry)\, and Cindy House (Fiction\, June 2017).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/2022-brattleboro-literary-festival/
LOCATION:Brooks House Lobby\, 132 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, Vermont\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Literary Festival":MAILTO:info@brattleborolitfest.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20221005T235430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T235431Z
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SUMMARY:A.J. Verdelle: Miss Chloe: A Memoir Of A Literary Friendship With Toni Morrison (In Conversation With Baruti N. Kopano)
DESCRIPTION:Get an inside look at one of the literary powerhouses of our generation through the eyes of her contemporary\, the brilliant novelist A.J. Verdelle (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty). Miss Chloe\, an Ivy staff favorite\, is a love letter to books and a testament to the connections that books make possible. Verdelle will be joined by Baruti N. Kopano of Morgan State University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/a-j-verdelle-miss-chloe-a-memoir-of-a-literary-friendship-with-toni-morrison-in-conversation-with-baruti-n-kopano/
LOCATION:The Ivy Bookshop\, 5928 Falls Road\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 21209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Ivy Bookshop":MAILTO:info@theivybookshop.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20220827T235613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220827T235614Z
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SUMMARY:Left Bank Books Presents Dan Chaon and Erin Belieu for a conversation with Dana Levin
DESCRIPTION:Left Bank Books welcomes bestselling author Dan Chaon & award-winning poet Erin Belieu (MFA Faculty)\, who will have a conversation about adoption\, being Midwestern raised\, friendship\, and other spontaneous topics spurred by their most recent books\, led by St. Louis’ Dana Levin in person at the High Low Performing Arts Space and virtually on Thursday\, September 15th at 7 p.m. Central. Join them in person or on their YouTube & Facebook Live Page.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/left-bank-books-presents-dan-chaon-and-erin-belieu-for-a-conversation-with-dana-levin/
LOCATION:Left Bank Books\, 399 North Euclid\, St Louis\, Missouri\, 63108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Left Bank Books":MAILTO:info@left-bank.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220301T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220301T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20220219T215636Z
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SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop presents Sara Zarr in Conversation with Corey Ann Haydu
DESCRIPTION:TKE proudly welcomes acclaimed author Sara Zarr (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) for a discussion of and reading from her new middle reader novel\, A Song Called Home. Zarr will be in conversation with fellow YA author\, Corey Ann Haydu. \n\n\n\nThis free\, virtual event will take place on Crowdcast and you must register here to participate. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nFrom award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are\, and how family is not just something you’re part of\, but something you make. \n\n\n\nLou and her family don’t have much\, but for Lou it’s enough. Mom. Her sister\, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend\, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey\, and if they didn’t have to worry about money all the time. But Lou doesn’t need better—she only needs enough. \n\n\n\nWhat’s enough for Lou\, however\, is not enough for Mom. Steve\, Mom’s boyfriend\, isn’t a bad guy\, he’s just…not what Lou is used to. And now\, he and Mom are getting married\, and that means moving. Packing up life as they’ve known it and storing it in Steve’s garage. Lou will be separated from everything in her small but predictable life\, farther from Dad than ever. \n\n\n\nTheir last night in the city\, Lou receives a mysterious birthday gift: A guitar\, left for her by their front door. There’s nothing saying who left it\, but it must be from Dad. And as she leaves the only place she’s ever known\, she starts to believe that if she can learn how to play it\, maybe she can bring a piece of him\, and of her old life\, home.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-kings-english-bookshop-presents-sara-zarr-in-conversation-with-corey-ann-haydu/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The King's English Bookshop":MAILTO:BOOKS@KINGSENGLISH.COM
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20220129T153905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220206T204952Z
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SUMMARY:What The Universe Is: Gustavo Hernandez and Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:What The Universe Is: A Reading Series featuring two fantastic poets in a continent-spanning event: \n\n\n\nGustavo Hernandez is the author of the poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press). Gustavo holds a degree in creative writing from California State University Long Beach\, and his poems have been published in Reed\, Acentos Review\, Sonora Review and other publications. He was born in Jalisco\, Mexico and lives in Southern California. You can visit him here. \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer’s (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) sixth poetry collection\, Listen\, published in 2020 by MadHat Press\, was named a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. His previous books of poetry are The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (Galileo Press\, 1987)\, The World Book (Copper Beech Press\, 1992)\, Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (Lumen Editions/Brookline Books\, 1997)\, Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books\, 2004)—winner of the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book—and Clangings (Sarabande Books\, 2012). His poems and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, Field\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. His work is represented in anthologies such as The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press\, 2005 and 2011)\, The Book of Villanelles (Knopf Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series\, 2012)\, and The POETRY Anthology\, 1912–2002 (Ivan R. Dee\, 2002). He has also written essays for Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press\, 2005); Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Middlebury College Press\, 1996); and Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin (WordFarm\, 2012). Recipient of two grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, he has taught literature and writing at Bennington College\, Boston University\, M.I.T.\, and Tufts University; and he founded and now teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Find him online at stevencramer.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/what-the-universe-is-gustavo-hernandez-and-steven-cramer%ef%bf%bc/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20220122T193918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220122T193919Z
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SUMMARY:Julie Wittes-Schlack in conversation with Pamela Petro on Julie's new novel\, Burning and Dodging
DESCRIPTION:Join Odyssey Bookshop both in person and online on Thursday\, February 10 at 7 PM for a reading and discussion of Julie Wittes-Schlack’s (Nonfiction\, June 2013) new novel\, Burning and Dodging. She will be joined in conversation by Pamela Petro (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of the memoir\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence. \n\n\n\nJulie Wittes Schlack is the author of a memoir in essays\, This All-at-Onceness\, named one of Kirkus Review’s 100 Best Indie Books of 2019\, and of the novel Burning and Dodging. She writes and teaches both fiction and creative nonfiction and has an MFA from Lesley University. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous literary journals\, including Shenandoah\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, Ninth Letter\, Eleven Eleven\, and The Tampa Review. She reviews books for The ARTery and is a regular contributor to NPR station WBUR’s journal of ideas and opinions\, Cognoscenti. \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is an artist\, writer\, and educator. She’s the author of four books of literary nonfiction\, an artist’s book\, and a graphic script\, and has widely exhibited her photography. She teaches creative writing on Lesley University’s MFA Program and at Smith College\, and is Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales\, Trinity St David\, where she is also a Fellow. Pamela’s latest book\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, A Memoir\, was published by Little Toller Books in September\, 2021 and chosen by The Telegraph and The Financial Times of London as one of the Year’s Best Travel Books. \n\n\n\nThis event will be both in person and streamed on Odyssey’s Facebook page.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/julie-wittes-schlack-in-conversation-with-pamela-petro-on-julies-new-novel-burning-and-dodging/
LOCATION:The Odyssey Bookshop\, 9 College St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Odyssey Bookshop":MAILTO:joan@odysseybks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20211017T164314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T164316Z
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SUMMARY:The Ocean State Review: 10th Anniversary Reading
DESCRIPTION:Open to the public. \n\n\n\nQ&A and book signing featuring award-winning writers.Colin ChannerColin Channer was born in Jamaica and educated there and in New York. His many books include the novella The Girl with the Golden Shoes and the poetry collection Providential. \n\n\n\nHester Kaplan (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)Hester Kaplan is the author of the story collections The Edge of Marriage\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, and Unravished\, and the novels Kinship Theory and The Tell. \n\n\n\nPenelope CrayPenelope Cray is the author of Miracles Come on Mondays (Pleiades\, 2020)\, selected by Kazim Ali for the 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. \n\n\n\nRobin HemleyRobin Hemley has published fourteen books\, most recently Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska 2020). The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia\, which he co-authored with Xu Xi\, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-ocean-state-review-10th-anniversary-reading/
LOCATION:URI Alumni Center\, 73 Upper College Rd\, University of Rhode Island\, Kingston\, Rhode Island\, 02881\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="URI Alumni Center":MAILTO:shawnd@uri.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20211002T202537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T202538Z
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SUMMARY:Pamela Petro & Jane Brox - The Long Field\, A Memoir of Wales and The Presence of Absence
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Petro writes\, ‘I’m not Welsh by birth or ancestry. I’m simply Welsh by choice.’ \n\n\n\nIn The Long Field\, she burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer’s life. Petro (Nonfiction and Graphic Novel & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) and her friend\, author Jane Brox (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, sit down for a conversation about the book\, about writing memoir and about the powerful places that hold us and keep calling us back. \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is the author of Travels in an Old Tongue\, Sitting Up With The Dead and The Slow Breathe of Stone. Jane Brox has written five books\, most recently Silence: A Social History of One Of The Least Understood Elements of Our Lives (2019)\, which received the 2020 Maine Literary Award for NonFiction. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pamela-petro-jane-brox-the-long-field-a-memoir-of-wales-and-the-presence-of-absence/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nantucket Atheneum":MAILTO:info@nantucketatheneum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T180000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210730T232115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210730T232116Z
UID:4707-1629306000-1629309600@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:The Long Field: A Memoir of Wales and the Presence of Absence--author talk with Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer’s life. Petro twines her story around that of Wales by viewing both through the lens of hiraeth\, a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate\, deriving from an old usage meaning ‘long field’\, but is also the name for the bone-deep longing for something or someone – a home\, culture\, language\, or a younger self. The Long Field braids memoir with the essential hiraeth stories of Wales\, and in doing so creates a radical new vision of place and belonging. \n\n\n\nPamela Petro (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) is a writer\, artist\, and educator. She works in both research nonfiction and memoir—often braiding the two together—and as a visual artist works with experimental forms of photography. In addition to the MFA\, she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St David. Her essays have been published in Lumina\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, Slab\, and Harvard Review Online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-long-field-a-memoir-of-wales-and-the-presence-of-absence-author-talk-with-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210706T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210706T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210612T131404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210612T131433Z
UID:4226-1625594400-1625598000@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Shakirah Bourne presents Josephine Against the Sea: In conversation with Tracey Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Bajan author and filmmaker Shakirah Bourne joins Greenlight (virtually!) to launch her debut middle grade novel\, Josephine Against the Sea\, a magical\, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology!Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That’s why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She’s desperate to make it onto her school’s cricket team because she’ll get to play her favorite sport and use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can’t try out for the team\, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life. Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from the clutches of his new girlfriend\, a vengeful sea creature\, before it’s too late? \n\n\n\nTracey Baptiste (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, bestselling author of the creepy Caribbean series The Jumbies and several other books\, joins Bourne in conversation at this magical virtual book launch!
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/shakirah-bourne-presents-josephine-against-the-sea-in-conversation-with-tracey-baptiste/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Greenlight Bookstore":MAILTO:info@greenlightbookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210508T231012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210508T231027Z
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SUMMARY:Massachusetts Poetry Festival -- Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:When coronavirus started closing down New England in March 2020\, life changed dramatically. People quickly rethought their approaches to work\, school\, shopping\, socializing and more. In response\, Lily Poetry Press created an anthology\, Voices Amidst the Virus\, edited by Eileen Cleary and Christine Jones\, which features poems by Kevin Prufer\, Annie Finch\, Daniel Summerhill\, Dzvinia Orlowsky\, Anne-Marie Oomen\, Sean Thomas Dougherty\, and many others that explores our shared experiences of isolation\, lock-down\, re-entry. In this panel discussion\, the editors and two poets from the collection will talk about the inspiration behind the project as well as their experiences writing through the pandemic. They will read a selection of poems that confront despair and reach for hope. And there will be sourdough! During the interactive session\, the audience will be invited to share their own Covid-19 stories and poems. \n\n\n\nParticipating CCW community members: \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016)Christine Jones (Poetry\, January 2014)
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/massachusetts-poetry-festival-voices-amidst-the-virus-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Poetry Festival":MAILTO:programassistant@masspoetry.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210119T234619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210508T233413Z
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SUMMARY:Chapter and Verse Reading Series -- Jennifer LeBlanc and Jane Brox
DESCRIPTION:Join Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry\, June 2012) with Jane Brox (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jeffrey Harrison for a reading hosted by Susanna Kittredge at Chapter and Verse.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/chapter-and-verse-reading-series-jennifer-leblanc-and-jane-brox/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jamaica Pond Poets":MAILTO:dorothy.derifield@jamaicapondpoets.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210428T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210318T193824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T194216Z
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SUMMARY:Elegy: Poems of Loss and Hope\, a Reading with Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Tim Carver\, Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, and Tom Schmidt for a poetry reading focused on the themes of grief\, mourning\, and moving toward hope. This reading will feature a short reading from each poet and an opportunity for Q&A after.  \n\n\n\nTim Carter is the author of Remains (BOAAT Press 2020) and teaches creative writing and rhetoric in the community.   \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer is the author of six poetry collections\, most recently Listen (MadHat Press\, 2020) and Clangings (Sarabande Books\, 2012). He founded and currently teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.  \n\n\n\nTom Schmidt has published two poetry chapbooks\, Enough to Drink or Drown (Kelsay Books\, 2020) and Like\, A Metaphor (Encircle Publications\, June 2021). He received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and taught humanities for thirty years in California\, Oregon\, and Vermont.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/elegy-poems-of-loss-and-hope-a-reading-with-steven-cramer/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="PoemCity":MAILTO:info@kellogghubbard.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210131T203935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T194151Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Prufer - THE ART OF FICTION and Craig Morgan Teicher - WELCOME TO SONNETVILLE\, NEW JERSEY
DESCRIPTION:In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books)\, Prufer’s (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs\, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes\, often through personae\, a near future\, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding (whether it’s cogent or delusional). Via both satire and direct address (to the point of reader-squeamishness)\, Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized\, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us\, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves. \n\n\n\nLenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winning poet and nationally recognized literary critic Craig Morgan Teicher’s Welcome to Sonnetville\, New Jersey is a poetry collection about entering middle age\, raising a young family\, sustaining a marriage\, and taking care of a severely disabled child. Built around two sequences of sonnets\, and interrupted by two sets of lyric poems\, a set of prose poems\, and a long poem about death\, the book narrates a family’s move to the suburbs and their coming to terms with the ghosts of the past and with hard-to-hold hopes for the future.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/texas-book-release-with-kevin-prufer-and-craig-morgan-teicher/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210318T195845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T222305Z
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SUMMARY:A reading from Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:In April 2021\, Salem\, MA will be the epicenter of contemporary American poetry\, offering rare opportunities to hear the nation’s best poets read and discuss their work in intimate and engaging forums. Join Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016)\, Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, Christine Jones (Poetry\, January 2014)\, and Kyle Potvin as they read from the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic. The festival was co-founded by Cindy Hunter Morgan (Poetry). \n\n\n\nThe Massachusetts Poetry Festival is a biennial poetry festival\, showcasing poetry readings and workshops\, a small press and literary fair\, panels\, poetry slams\, visual arts\, and open-air performances. Panel topics range broadly from the state of poetry\, poetry and gender\, book publishing\, and modernism in contemporary art. The festival also hosts the Student Day of Poetry\, a poetry field trip for middle and high school students\, who engage in writing-generative workshops with the region’s top poets and educators. Nearly 300 local and nationally known poets engage with thousands of attendees each festival. \n\n\n\nDue to COVID-19\, the 2021 Massachusetts will take place in a virtual-hybrid format with the majority of events offered virtually and a select number of events offered in Salem\, MA. All in-person events will have the option for attendees to participate virtually.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/a-reading-from-voices-amidst-the-virus-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic-at-the-massachusetts-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Poetry Festival":MAILTO:programassistant@masspoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210318T193420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T191135Z
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SUMMARY:Brookline Poetry Series with Steven Cramer and Nathan McClain
DESCRIPTION:Steven Cramer’s (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) sixth poetry collection\, Listen\, was published in 2020 by MadHat Press. He is the author of five previous collections\, most recently Clangings (2012) and Goodbye to the Orchard (2004)\,  which won the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named an Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Recipient of two grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, he founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. \n\n\n\n\nNathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books\, 2017)\, a recipient of fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Frost Place\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and a graduate of MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.  His poems and prose have recently appeared in Poetry Northwest\, Zocalo Public Square\, Green Mountains Review\, Poem-a-Day\, The Common\, and The Critical Flame.  He teaches at Hampshire College.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/brookline-poetry-series-with-steven-cramer-and-nathan-mcclain/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210131T203623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T194047Z
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SUMMARY:The Writers Place with Kevin Prufer\, Wayne Miller\, and Katie Manning
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Prufer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies\, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books)\, winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.  Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series\, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Among Prufer’s awards and honors are four Pushcart prizes and multiple Best American Poetry selections\, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-writers-place-with-kevin-prufer-wayne-miller-and-katie-manning/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Writers Place":MAILTO:info@writersplace.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T234318
CREATED:20210318T191404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T194024Z
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SUMMARY:The Ecstasy of Influence: A Seminar and Workshop with Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, led by poet and professor Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, some of the great poetic influences (think John Keats and Wallace Stevens\, or Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich) will be explored and two prompts will be provided to inspire you to invite influence into your work. Steven Cramer’s sixth poetry collection\, Listen\, was published in 2020 by MadHat Press. He founded and now teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-ecstasy-of-influence-a-seminar-and-workshop-with-steven-cramer/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Michael Lowenthal in conversation with Stephen McCauley
DESCRIPTION:Boswell presents an evening with writer Michael Lowenthal (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of Avoidance\, The Paternity Test\, and now Sex with Strangers: Stories. For this event\, Lowenthal will be in conversation with Stephen McCauley\, author of My Ex-Life. \n\n\n\nRecognizing that any partner is unknowable on some level\, Michael Lowenthal writes about how intimacy can make strangers of us all. A newly ordained priest struggles with guilt and longing when he runs into his ex-girlfriend. A woman weighs the cost of protecting her daughter from a man they both adore. A young man tries to salvage a long-distance relationship while caring for his mentor\, an erotic writer dying of AIDS. \n\n\n\nIn edgy\, disquieting stories\, Lowenthal traces the paths that attraction and erotic encounters take\, baffling and rueful as often as electrifying. This fraught and funny volume forces us to grapple with our own subconscious desires and question how well we can ever really know ourselves. \n\n\n\nPurchase your copy of Sex with Strangers at https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9780299332648
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/michael-lowenthal-in-conversation-with-stephen-mccauley/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Boswell Books":MAILTO:info@boswellbooks.com
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SUMMARY:In conversation with Michael Lowenthal and Bill Lychack
DESCRIPTION:Michael Lowenthal (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) will feature in White Whale’s virtual events series for his latest\, Sex with Strangers. He’ll be joined by local author and professor\, William Lychack\, author of Cargill Falls\, for a reading. \n\n\n\nMichael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace\, Avoidance\, Charity Girl\, and  The Paternity Test. His short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House\, Ploughshares\, the  Southern Review\, the Kenyon Review\, the New York Times Magazine\, True Story\, Guernica\, and The Rumpus\, and have been widely anthologized. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers’ conferences\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Mass Cultural Council\, Lowenthal has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College\, and as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University. Since 2003\, he has been a faculty member in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program at Lesley University. \n\n\n\nWilliam Lychack is the author of Cargill Falls\, The Wasp Eater\, and The Architect of Flowers\, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, The Pushcart Prize\, The Best Small Fictions\, and on public radio’s This American Life. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh\, where he is Director of the Graduate Writing Program.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/in-conversation-with-michael-lowenthal-and-bill-lychack/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="White Whale Books":MAILTO:info@whitewhalebookstore.com
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