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SUMMARY:Author Palooza Tour - Featuring Emily Inouye Huey
DESCRIPTION:Join Shadow Mountain Publishing authors Emily Inouye Huey (WFYP\, June 2011)\, Elizabeth Lowham\, and Tiffany Rosenhan as they celebrate the publication of their newest titles.  There will be a panel discussion and Q & A session followed by book signings. \n\n\n\nDeseret Book will be on hand selling books by the authors.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/author-palooza-tour-featuring-emily-inouye-huey/
LOCATION:Clearfield Branch Library\, 1 N Main St\, Clearfield\, Utah\, 84015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:FOREST BATH Storytime with Lisa Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Join Lisa Robinson (WFYP\, June 2011) at Newtonville Books for the launch of her upcoming picture book\, Forest Bath Right Down This Path.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/forest-bath-storytime-with-lisa-robinson/
LOCATION:Newtonville Books\, 10 Langley Rd\, Newton\, Massachusetts\, 02459-1972\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:You Can't Kill a Poet 9 Year Anniversary Reading!
DESCRIPTION:This poetry series hosted by Boston Gordon (Poetry\, January 2015) is back for its nine-year anniversary. Queer and trans poets from Philadelphia will share their work and fill the room with queer experience. Readers list TBD. \n\n\n\nThis is a 21+ event\, IDs are checked at the door. Please be vaccinated\, masks are welcome. \n\n\n\nThis reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/you-cant-kill-a-poet-9-year-anniversary-reading/
LOCATION:Tattoed Mom\, 530 South St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Grubbie Debuts: Kate Fussner\, author of The Song of Us\, in conversation with Rajani LaRocca
DESCRIPTION:PSB: Boston Edition and GrubStreet will welcome Kate Fussner (WFYP\, June 2021)\, author of The Song of Us for the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut event series. Rajani LaRocca will join the author in conversation. Attendees may also join virtually on Crowdcast. \n\n\n\nKate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist\, teacher\, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing\, Kate can be found spending time with her family\, baking\, or singing her favorite musicals. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry\, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both. Learn more at katefussner.com \n\n\n\nRajani LaRocca was born in India\, raised in Kentucky\, and now lives in the Boston area\, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers\, including the Newbery Honor winning middle grade novel in verse\, Red\, White\, and Whole. She’s always been an omnivorous reader\, and now she is an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction\, novels and picture books\, prose and poetry. She finds inspiration in her family\, her childhood\, the natural world\, math\, science\, and just about everywhere she looks. Learn more about Rajani and her books at www.RajaniLaRocca.com and Twitter\, Facebook\, Instagram\, and LinkedIn. She also co-hosts the STEM Women in KidLit Podcast.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grubbie-debuts-kate-fussner-author-of-the-song-of-us-in-conversation-with-rajani-larocca/
LOCATION:Porter Square Books: Boston Edition\, 50 Liberty Dr.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:The Knife Thrower’s Girl: Poetry Reading with Naomi Mulvihill
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry\, 2011) as she reads from her award-winning debut book of poetry\, The Knife Thrower’s Girl. \n\n\n\nNaomi Mulvihill was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MA. Her chapbook\, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press) was awarded the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, New Orleans Review\, Salamander\, Cimarron\, West Branch\, and others. Her poetry was also featured in Verse Daily. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools. \n\n\n\nOther local poets will also share their work.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-knife-throwers-girl-poetry-reading-with-naomi-mulvihill/
LOCATION:Egleston Square Branch Library\, 2044 Columbus Ave\, Roxbury\, Massachusetts\, 02119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch of Glove Shy: A Sister's Reckoning -- Janet Hurley in conversation with Sebastian Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Join Janet Hurley (Nonfiction\, June 2008) in conversation with Sebastian Matthews at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe for the launch of her memoir Glove Shy. This is a hybrid event with limited in-store seating and the option to attend online. The event is free but registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance. This event includes a book signing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the 1970s\, Janet Hurley’s older brother\, Brian\, was the teenage boxing protégé of a World Heavyweight Champion who lived in their hometown. Brian was a young man of brilliance and wit. His talents were broad\, yet boxing was the path he chose. And\, soon enough\, family life revolved around his training\, his bouts\, his future. Olympic medals? A pro career? Glove Shy is a tender-tough memoir\, a loving look at how a sport as elemental as boxing can obscure the powerful forces this family never saw coming. But\, when one of your own is in the ring\, what else can matter? Hurley is a talented writer\, with strong and vivid prose\, and willing to get in the ring with her own past. Glove Shy is a well-told story of what happens when the blows hit far beyond the ropes. \n\n\n\nJanet Hurley was born and raised in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York before coming south to Carolina (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)for its undergraduate creative writing program. Though it took a while to replace “you guys” with “y’all”\, she has lived in the south ever since\, most recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC\, where she and her husband David raised their daughter\, Maren\, and son\, Liam. \n\n\n\nSebastian Matthews is the author of the memoir In My Father’s Footsteps (W.W. Norton & Co.) as well as two collections of poetry\, We Generous and Miracle Day\, both published by Red Hen Press. A third collection\, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision\, came out from Red Hen Press in 2017. Along with Stanley Plumly\, Matthews is the co-editor of three volumes: The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews of William Matthews (University of Michigan Press)\, Search Party: The Collected Poems of William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin)\, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize\, and New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected Matthews (Red Hen Press). His poetry and prose have appeared in or on\, among others\, American Poetry Review\, The Atlantic\, Blackbird\, The Common\, From the Fishouse\, Georgia Review\, Massachusetts Review\, New England Review\, Poets & Writers\, storySouth\, The Sun\, Tin House\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Writer’s Almanac\, and Writer’s Chronicle.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/hybrid-book-launch-glove-shy-janet-hurley-in-conversation-with-sebastian-matthews/
LOCATION:Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe\, 55 Haywood Street\, Asheville\, North Carolina\, 28801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Kate Fussner with Rebecca Podos: The Song of Us
DESCRIPTION:In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of The Song of Us with author Kate Fussner (WFYP\, June 2021)\, in conversation with Rebecca Podos. \n\n\n\nKate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist\, teacher\, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. Kate holds her B.A. 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. \n\n\n\nModerator Rebecca Podos is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of YA novels. Her latest releases are the co-edited anthology Fools in Love (Running Press Kids) and the YA fantasy novel From Dust\, a Flame (Balzer + Bray). By day\, she’s an agent at the Rees Literary Agency.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/kate-fussner-with-rebecca-podos-the-song-of-us/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard Street\, Brookline\, Massachusetts\, 02446-2908\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230614T170000
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SUMMARY:The Golden Land with Author Liz Shick at Chilmark Library
DESCRIPTION:A debut novel that digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta’s grandmother dies\, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her grandmother’s family and the violence she witnessed there. Full of rich detail and complex relationships\, The Golden Land explores those personal narratives that might lie beneath the surface of historical accounts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Shick (Fiction\, January 2019) is the debut author of The Golden Land\, winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel. A longtime American expatriate and international development consultant\, she has lived and worked in Angola\, Malawi\, Mozambique\, Myanmar\, Tanzania\, The Gambia\, and Italy. Liz currently resides in Dhaka\, Bangladesh and West Tisbury\, Massachusetts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Lesley University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-golden-land-with-author-liz-shick-at-chilmark-library/
LOCATION:Chilmark Library\, 522 South Road\, Chilmark\, Massachusetts\, 02535-0180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Reading with Karin Cecile Davidson and Jen Knox
DESCRIPTION:Two Dollar Radio Headquarters will be celebrating the release of Karin Cecile Davidson’s (Fiction\, June 2009) newest novel\, The Geography of First Kisses\, and Jen Knox’s debut novel\, We Arrive Uninvited. \n\n\n\nIn The Geography of First Kisses\, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana\, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma\, the pine woods of Florida\, places where girls and women seek love and belonging\, and instead discover relationships as complicated\, bewildering\, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers the reach of her misadventures; a newlywed couple travels to Tulsa in search of a horse gone missing\, perhaps more in search of themselves; a new mother is faced with understanding the miracles and mysteries of faith when her baby disappears; a young daughter travels to Tallahassee with her mother\, trying to unravel the meaning of love crossed with abandonment. Saturated with poetic illusion and powered with prose of a dark\, pulsating circuitry\, the collection combines joy\, heartache\, and tenacity in a manner sorely missed in today’s super-structured literature. \n\n\n\nKarin Cecile Davidson is the author of the story collection The Geography of First Kisses\, winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize (Kallisto Gaia Press\, 2023)\, and the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books\, 2020). Her stories have appeared in Five Points\, Story\, The Massachusetts Review\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award\, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize\, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction\, a Peter Taylor Fellowship\, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center\, the Atlantic Center for the Arts\, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans\, Louisiana\, she now lives in Columbus\, Ohio.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/reading-with-karin-cecile-davidson-and-jen-knox/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Spiritual Refuge Series - Public Reading with Naomi Mulvihill 
DESCRIPTION:Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry\, 2011) gives a public reading at the North Kingstown Free Library as part of the visiting writers Spiritual Refuge Series sponsored by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/spiritual-refuge-series-public-reading-with-naomi-mulvihill/
LOCATION:North Kingstown Free Library\, 100 Boone Street\, North Kingstown\, Rhode Island\, 02852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="St. Paul&#8217%3Bs Episcopal Church":MAILTO:office@stpaulswickford.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T190000
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SUMMARY:Kate Fussner at Children's Book World for The Song of Us
DESCRIPTION:Join Children’s Book World in Haverford\, PA for a reading with Kate Fussner (WFYP\, June 2021) from her debut novel\, The Song of Us. \n\n\n\nKate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist\, teacher\, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing\, Kate can be found spending time with her family\, baking\, or singing her favorite musicals. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry\, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both. Kate went to Friends’ Central high school and still has family in the area!
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/kate-fussner-at-childrens-book-world-for-the-song-of-us/
LOCATION:Children’s Book World\, 17 Haverford Station Rd\, Haverford\, Pennsylvania\, 19041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230622T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230622T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Banter with Karin Cecile Davidson
DESCRIPTION:Book Banter is a free\, fun\, interactive event that streams live. Join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube! \n\n\n\nIn The Geography of First Kisses\, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana\, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma\, the pine woods of Florida\, places where girls and women seek love and belonging\, and instead discover relationships as complicated\, bewildering\, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers the reach of her misadventures; a newlywed couple travels to Tulsa in search of a horse gone missing\, perhaps more in search of themselves; a new mother is faced with understanding the miracles and mysteries of faith when her baby disappears; a young daughter travels to Tallahassee with her mother\, trying to unravel the meaning of love crossed with abandonment. Saturated with poetic illusion and powered with prose of a dark\, pulsating circuitry\, the collection combines joy\, heartache\, and tenacity in a manner sorely missed in today’s super-structured literature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarin Cecile Davidson (Fiction\, June 2009) is the author of the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books\, 2020). Her story collection The Geography of First Kisses was awarded the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from Kallisto Gaia Press in 2023. Her stories have appeared in Five Points\, Story\, The Massachusetts Review\, Colorado Review\, Passages North\, Post Road\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award\, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize\, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction\, a Peter Taylor Fellowship\, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center\, the Atlantic Center for the Arts\, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans\, Louisiana\, she now lives in Columbus\, Ohio.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/virtual-book-banter-with-karin-cecile-davidson/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- Tracey Baptiste (WFYP) and Kate Fussner (WFYP)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-evening-reading-series-tracey-baptiste-wfyp-and-kate-fussner-wfyp/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- E.B. Bartels (Nonfiction)\, Janet Hurley (Nonfiction)\, and Kate Kearns (Poetry)
DESCRIPTION:The evening’s reading will include E.B. Bartels\, Visiting Writer\, nonfiction\, plus: Janet Hurley\, Alum\, nonfiction (June 2008)\, and Kate Kearns\, Alum\, poetry (June 2008)\, presented by Cambridge Common Writers. There will be a reception following the reading.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-evening-reading-series-e-b-bartels-nonfiction-janet-hurley-nonfiction-and-kate-kearns-poetry/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230625T183640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T183643Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230625T185441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T185443Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Print%3A A Bookstore":MAILTO:events@printbookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230707T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230707T170000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230625T184924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T185029Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="The Storywalk Project":MAILTO:storywalkvt@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230708T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230624T210711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230624T210712Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230819T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230817T223616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230817T223744Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="BCA Playwright Residency":MAILTO:info@bostonarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T140000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230816T233732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T233733Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230816T234928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T234929Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T190000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230820T203457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230820T203458Z
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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:20230826T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230820T205243Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T120000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230630T143542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T143544Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230830T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230830T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230820T210108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230820T210109Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T133000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230830T232050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T232052Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230903T203042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230903T203043Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival":MAILTO:contact@bklyncbeanlitfest.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T165852
CREATED:20230830T232535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T232540Z
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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:20260527T165852
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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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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