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SUMMARY:[Working Title] reading hosted by L Scully
DESCRIPTION:L Scully (Nonfiction\, January 2023) hosted a curated evening of readings by queer Boston writers. There will be a few open mic slots at the end of the curated reading.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/working-title-reading-hosted-by-l-scully/
LOCATION:Faro Café\, 5 Arrow St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Kate Kearns discusses YOU ARE RUINING MY LONELINESS
DESCRIPTION:“You Are Ruining My Loneliness is a beautiful lyrical collection that moves with agile intelligence through poems that stand out for their imagery\, apt figurative language\, and varied poetic forms. In the poem “Night Walk\,” where “rain puddles full as plums…each lit / with its own moon\,” the speaker wonders\,“I’m alone out here\, or /seem to be…I want to know\, / am I spying on a new correspondence / with gravity\, / or have I\, just tonight\, / lent attention?”  What comes from such close attention to the world within and without is an intricate and musical series of poems that explore the line between human mortality and ideas of immortality as revealed by the natural world and the universe. Kate Kearns is unafraid to ask the larger questions about who we are and how to find our way forward in a world of loss. She reminds us of our innate interconnectedness and does what we want a good poet to do: transport us into a way of seeing things afresh through rich language\, practiced skill\, and above all\, a deep and compassionate heart.” – Linda Aldrich\, former Poet Laureate of Portland \n\n\n\nKate Kearns’s (Poetry\, June 2008) poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including Salamander and Northern New England Review\, in the Maine Sunday Telegram\, and on Maine Public’s “Poems from Here.” She lives with her family in southern Maine.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/kate-kearns-discusses-you-are-ruining-my-loneliness/
LOCATION:Print: A Bookstore\, 273 Congress St\, Portland\, Maine\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Pollinator Garden Storywalk with Sara Levine's "Flower Talk"
DESCRIPTION:Walk around the Pratt House Pollinator Garden and listen to Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006)‘s Flower Talk to learn about flowers and pollinators. Parking available at Essex Library and Town Hall.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pollinator-garden-storywalk-with-sara-levines-flower-talk/
LOCATION:Pratt House Museum\, 19 West Ave\, Essex\, Connecticut\, 06426\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:The Golden Land Book Signing with Elizabeth Shick
DESCRIPTION:Join Elizabeth Shick (Fiction\, January 2019) at Edgartown Books in Edgartown\, MA for a signing of her debut novel The Golden Land.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-golden-land-book-signing-with-elizabeth-shick/
LOCATION:Edgartown Books\, 44 Main Street\, Edgartown\, Massachusetts\, 02539\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Reading - (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius
DESCRIPTION:The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading/workshop of a new play in development\, (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius (WSS\, June 2015)\, at the Boston Center for the Arts. \n\n\n\n(UN)HOUSED tells the story of a single mother\, Elianie\, and her recent college graduate daughter\, Skylar\, who has moved back home. As Skylar tries to navigate the world of adulthood\, she and her mother learn that their two-bedroom home of ten years has been put up for sale by their landlord. When a new landlord purchases the home and allows for Elianie and Skylar to remain as tenants\, they believe all is well until a series of incidents put their housing in jeopardy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Fabiola at teenswrite18@gmail.com
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/reading-unhoused-by-fabiola-r-decius/
LOCATION:Boston Center for the Arts\, 539 Tremont Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:The Art\, Power and ABC’s of Talking With Young Children to Build Skills and Connection with Rebecca Rolland\, EdD
DESCRIPTION:Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent\, kind\, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted\, exhausted\, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations. \n\n\n\nHarvard lecturer\, speech pathologist\, and mother\, Rebecca Rolland (Fiction\, June 2017) offers an essential\, evidence-based guide to communicating more effectively with children of all ages\, revealing that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults and kids connect better in the moment and boosting children’s learning and wellbeing for years to come. \n\n\n\nDr. Rolland’s tools for communication will help you learn to: \n\n\n\n\nEngage in more “rich talk”—a methodology for a quality conversation;Promote your child’s empathy\, curiosity\, and ability to embrace challenges;Make you feel more effective and confident as a parent.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-art-power-and-abcs-of-talking-with-young-children-to-build-skills-and-connection-with-rebecca-rolland-edd/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Glenbard Parent Series":MAILTO:gilda_ross@glenbard.org
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SUMMARY:What the Universe Is: Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock
DESCRIPTION:Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us – both built and natural – and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry\, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By day\, she works as an art director for a Salt Lake City ad agency. Her first book All of This Was Once Under Water is out from Quarter Press (2023). Natalie’s poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review\, Tampa Review\, Rattle\, South Dakota Review\, Los Angeles Times\, Tar River Poetry\, http://Terrain.org \, and elsewhere. She serves on the Utah Arts Advisory and Lightscatter Press boards\, and lives in southern Utah with the poet Nano Taggart and two dogs. Find more at http://NatalieYoungArts.com  or follow her on Instagram (@pickledbeatss) for many pup pics. \n\n\n\nAutumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Philadelphia. Her newest chapbook\, Dirt Bird\, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press\, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Georgia Review\, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at http://autumnmcclintock.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/what-the-universe-is-natalie-padilla-young-and-autumn-mcclintock/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T140000
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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:Novels-in-Verse: An Invitation to Play with Kate Fussner
DESCRIPTION:Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test\, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format\, white space\, word choice\, metaphors\, structure\, rhythm\, and more. In this seminar\, writers will be asked to re-imagine scenes from a work-in-progress with an emphasis on how we can transform scenes and heighten their impact when we stretch beyond the limitations of prose. No previous experience with novels-in-verse is required\, but students should come with a story they’ve been working on and a willingness to write bravely. \n\n\n\nBIO: Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist\, teacher\, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. Her debut novel\, THE SONG OF US\, is a queer middle grade novel-in-verse based on “Orpheus and Eurydice” (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books\, May 30\, 2023). Kate holds her B.A. in English from Vassar College\, her M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts Boston\, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People from Lesley University. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry\, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/novels-in-verse-an-invitation-to-play-with-kate-fussner/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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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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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
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 5 - Laureates of the Caribbean with Enzo Surin
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival\, this event will feature Enzo Surin (Poetry\, 2012)\, Roberto Carlos Garcia\, Iyaba Mandingo\, Geoffrey Philp\, Saida Agostini Bostic\, and Andre Bagoo. Hosted by Tanya Batson-Savage and Attillab Springer.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/brooklyn-caribbean-literary-festival-5-laureates-of-the-caribbean-with-enzo-surin/
LOCATION:The Center for Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T185001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T185002Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio\, Eliot Cardinaux\, and Rebecca Faulkner
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton\, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017)\, Eliot Cardinaux\, and Rebecca Faulkner. \n\n\n\nMichael W 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 Amherst Poetry Festival) and is the associate editor of the Naugatuck River Review. Michael is also on the Board of Directors for Faraday Publishing\, a nonprofit press with the mission of amplifying marginalized voices. His poetry has been published in Rust + Moth\, Crab Creek Review\, The Indianapolis Review\, and Palette Poetry\, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-of-poetry-music-with-michael-mercurio-eliot-cardinaux-and-rebecca-faulkner/
LOCATION:Anchor House of Artists\, 518 Pleasant Street\, Northampton\, Massachusetts\, 01002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T201938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T201939Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Shamar Hill\, Enzo Silon Surin\, and Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought\, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow in the bar. RSVP required. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born\, award-winning poet\, educator\, librettist\, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, May 2023)\, which interrogates the socio-political framework of a democracy at war with itself and its humanity\, and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry. He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2022)\, and the recipient of a number of honors including a Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation and grants from the New England Poetry Club and Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. Surin’s work has been featured in numerous publications including by the Poetry Foundation and in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets and has been commissioned by the Boston Opera Collaborative. He is Founding Editor and Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, Inc.\, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. \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\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/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, New York\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers":MAILTO:info@mcnallyjackson.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230816T234632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T234633Z
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Pamela Petro - "The Long Field" at Wellesley Books
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novel & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) visits Wellesley Books in Wellesley\, MA to discuss The Long Field\, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/author-event-pamela-petro-the-long-field-at-wellesley-books/
LOCATION:Wellesley Books\, 82 Central Street\, Wellesley\, Massachusetts\, 02482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wellesley Books":MAILTO:ashleigh@wellesleybooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T193753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T193754Z
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SUMMARY:New Salem Public Library Reading Series - Celia Jeffries
DESCRIPTION:Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction\, 2008) will kick off the Friends of the New Salem Public Library’s Local Author Series with a reading from Blue Desert. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/new-salem-public-library-reading-series-celia-jeffries/
LOCATION:New Salem Public Library\, 23 S Main Street\, New Salem\, Massachusetts\, 01355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the New Salem Public Library":MAILTO:NSFriendsofLibrary@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T180000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230830T233623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T233624Z
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SUMMARY:Owain Glyndwr Wine and Welsh Cheese Event with author Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:As part of the annual Owain Glyndwr celebraton celebration\, author Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) will present her new book: The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir. \n\n\n\nThe Long Field was published 2021 in the UK and named a Travel Book of the Year by The Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph. It was also a finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award. \n\n\n\nThe author says\, “In the book I braid hiraeth I’ve experienced —as an American who pines for Wales\, as the daughter of a parent with dementia\, as the survivor of a horrific Amtrak crash—into new and old hiraeth stories of Wales. Along the way I write about hiraeth in some startlingly new ways: queer hiraeth\, hiraeth triggered by politics\, technology\, ecological crises\, and immigra􏰀on. That said\, while it’s a book about longing\, it’s actually quite cheerful! My view of hiraeth evolves along the way from an awareness of loss and longing to a crea􏰀ve response to loss\, which I see as the genius of Welsh culture—maybe the wellspring of all creativity.” \n\n\n\nPlease bring cash or check if you would like to buy Pamela’s book\, direct from the author\, at a discounted price of just $20.00 (cash or check only).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/owain-glyndwr-wine-and-welsh-cheese-event-with-author-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:Lost Acres Vineyard\, 80 Lost Acres Road\, North Granby\, Connecticut\, 06060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T225023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T225024Z
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SUMMARY:Working Title Boston - Queer Poetry Night!
DESCRIPTION:L Scully’s (Nonfiction\, January 2023) reading series\, “Working Title” will host the next event at the Lucy Parsons Center. Reader list and further details TBA.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/working-title-boston-queer-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Lucy Parsons Center\, 358 Centre St A\, Jamaica Plain\, Massachusetts\, 02130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T203000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230815T230924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230815T230955Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Toni Morrison with Amy Mevorach
DESCRIPTION:Toni Morrison wrote\, “It seems to me that the best art is political\, and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful simultaneously.” In this seminar\, participants will read Morrison’s first novel\, The Bluest Eye\, and several of her essays or speeches\, exploring how Morrison uses a colonial language — English — to decolonize literature and restore Black culture and community. You don’t have to consider yourself a writer to join the class\, only a willingness to approach Morrison’s work with an eye for a writer’s craft and intention. \n\n\n\n6 Wednesdays\, 7-8:30pm Begins Sep. 20. This class will meet in-person at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Limited availability. \n\n\n\nInstructor\, Amy Mevorach \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/writers-read-toni-morrison-with-amy-mevorach/
LOCATION:Cambridge Center for Adult Education\, 42 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230830T234700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T234701Z
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SUMMARY:New York Welsh Monthly Meetup with Special Guest Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:New York Welsh hosts a monthly meet-up at The Liberty NYC in Manhattan\, New York City. In September\, they are joined by Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of The Long Field\, Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir. For readers of H Is for Hawk\, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales. \n\n\n\n\nShortlisted for the 2022 Wales Book of the Year Award\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of 6 Best Travel Books of 2021! — The Financial Times\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of the 8 Best Travel Books of the Year! — The Telegraph\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. \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.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/new-york-welsh-monthly-meetup-with-special-guest-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:The Liberty NYC\, 29 W 35th St\, New York\, New York\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="New York Welsh":MAILTO:info@newyorkwelsh.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T203000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230916T234036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230916T234037Z
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SUMMARY:"The Red Shoes; a Phantasmagoric Ballet on Paper" Chapbook Launch
DESCRIPTION:A reading and multimedia presentation to celebrate the publication of Shari Caplan’s (Poetry\, June 2014) “The Red Shoes; a phantasmagoric ballet on paper.”
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-red-shoes-a-phantasmagoric-ballet-on-paper-chapbook-launch/
LOCATION:Somerville Theatre\, 55 Davis Square\, Somerville\, Massachusetts\, 02144\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T194842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T194843Z
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SUMMARY:The Inflectionist Reading Series 11: Toti O'Brien\, Michael Mercurio\, Patrick Meeds
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems\, critical essays\, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry\, The Inflectionist Review\, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club)\, Lily Poetry Review\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Bear Review\, Sugar House Review\, Rust + Moth\, Coal Hill Review\, the Common\, and elsewhere.  \n\n\n\nMichael curates What The Universe Is: A Reading Series\, which happens monthly on Zoom. He is the Director of Community Engagement for the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering discourse of enduring value rooted in the work and experiences of the global majority\, and he also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival\, held each September at Emily Dickinson’s house. You can find out more about Michael at poetmercurio.com. \n\n\n\nToti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome\, living in Los Angeles\, she is an artist\, musician and dancer. She is the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX\, 2020)\, An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press\, 2020)\, In Her Terms (Cholla Needles Press\, 2021)\, Pages of a Broken Diary (Pski’s Porch\, 2022) and Alter Alter (Elyssar Press\, 2022). \n\n\n\nPatrick Meeds lives in Syracuse\, NY and studies writing at the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center. He has been previously published in Stone Canoe literary journal\, the New Ohio Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, the Atticus Review\, Whiskey Island\, Guernica\, The Main Street Rag\, and Nine Mile Review among others. \n\n\n\nThe reading will be followed by a Q&A with the poets.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-inflectionist-reading-series-11-toti-obrien-michael-mercurio-patrick-meeds/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Inflectionist Review":MAILTO:info@inflectionism.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T170000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230920T221435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T221436Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Join Brown Bookstore for the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo’s debut book All Water Has Perfect Memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife changes forever for six-year-old Nada when Iraq’s invasion of her birth country of Kuwait pushes her mother to immigrate with her to the United States. Just as she finally settles into her strange new existence apart from her father in Rhode Island\, learns English\, and grasps the fact that she is there to stay\, Nada begins discovering revelation after revelation that changes her perspective on her world and family. \n\n\n\nWith an imaginative blend of folklore and history that explores the relationship between our bodies\, ancestors\, and the lands that hold us\, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers through the author’s ancestral origins-the coast of Palestine\, Kuwait\, and the shores of Rhode Island- and explores generations of silence and eventually\, connection.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-all-water-has-perfect-memory-by-nada-samih-rotondo-2/
LOCATION:Brown Bookstore\, 244 Thayer Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T224519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T224521Z
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SUMMARY:U35: Mass Poetry Reading Series featuring Shari Caplan
DESCRIPTION:U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35. The series seeks to promote and bolster young Massachusetts poets while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets. If you are a poet under the age of 35\, sign up to read via Mass Poetry’s website! This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nFeatured poets: \n\n\n\n\nJordan Barnes\n\n\n\nShari Caplan (Poetry\, June 2014)\n\n\n\nNathan Erwin\n\n\n\nDariana Guerrero\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility Information: \n\n\n\nTrident Booksellers & Cafe and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Readings take place in the upstairs cafe. Please reach out to daniel@masspoetry.org and they will do their best to accommodate any and all requests.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/u35-mass-poetry-reading-series-featuring-shari-caplan/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 338 Newbury Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mass Poetry":MAILTO:INFO@MASSPOETRY.ORG
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T163000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230924T000959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230924T001000Z
UID:9003-1696087800-1696091400@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Displaced: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Faraday Publishing and UMass Museum of Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the exhibition ‘Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness‘\, this reading and conversation considers the struggle of navigating between multiple\, often contentious\, identities. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) will be in conversation with Samuel Miranda\, moderated by Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/displaced-a-poetry-reading-and-conversation-with-faraday-publishing-and-umass-museum-of-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Emily Dickinson Museum\, 280 Main Street\, Amherst\, Massachusetts\, 01002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Emily Dickinson Museum":MAILTO:info@EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20230903T233518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T233519Z
UID:8898-1696168800-1696176000@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Absolution: Confessional Nonfiction and Hybrid Memoir Workshop with L Scully
DESCRIPTION:Absolution is a workshop designed to challenge the soul(s) of self-narrative. Through a combination of craft and a peer support sharing activity\, we will transmutate our confessions and their literature into imperfect texts. Feel free to bring multimedia ephemera for the creation of physical and hybrid works. This workshop is a pro-queer and trans space. \n\n\n\nL Scully (Nonfiction\, January 2023) is a trans writer and double Capricorn currently based in the ether. Their debut full-length book\, Fuck Me: A Memoir\, is available from Gnashing Teeth \n\n\n\nPublishing. L’s chapbooks\, Like Us and I00 I Love Yous\, are available from ELJ Editions and Ethel\, respectively. They have recently completed their first bicoastal book tour\, and have work appearing internationally in the UK’s WORMS Mag\, the Dutch Simulacrum Magazine\, and Finnish publication Almanac Press’s Journal of Trans Poetics. L earned their MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge and now hosts queer literary events in Boston at [Working Title]. Find them on Instagram @_caprihorny_.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/absolution-confessional-nonfiction-and-hybrid-memoir-workshop-with-l-scully/
LOCATION:Looky Here\, 28 Chapman Street\, Greenfield\, Massachusetts\, 01301\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Looky Here":MAILTO:lookyheregreenfield@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T191143
CREATED:20231001T000214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231001T000216Z
UID:9082-1696276800-1696280400@cambridgecommonwriters.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T190000
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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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