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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T200000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T153000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon - Baldwin on Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon is a series of digital panel discussions exploring the literature and life of 20th-century author and activist James Baldwin. \n\n\n\nJames Baldwin (1924 – 1987) was an American essayist\, novelist\, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice in the 20th century. \n\n\n\nThe topic of this salon is ‘Baldwin on Friendship’. James Baldwin\, though he was a great writer\, was not alone. His contemporaries included Nikki Giovanni\, Maya Angelou\, Toni Morrison\, Richard Wright\, and Beauford Delaney\, to name but a few. This discussion will explore the importance of friendship in Baldwin’s growth as a writer\, when he was called out with love (and sometimes without!)\, and how community informed his practice for the better. \n\n\n\nGuests on the panel include Ghanaian-British author and publisher Nii Ayikwei Parkes (flipped eye press)\, Moses McKenzie (An Olive Grove in Ends) and Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman. The panel will be chaired by US-Caribbean editor and publicist Lisa Pegram (Poetry\, June 2012). \n\n\n\nACCESS: This event is BSL interpreted. \n\n\n\nConversations with Baldwin: The Salon is part of Conversations with Baldwin\, a festival celebrating the life and work of one of the 20th century’s greatest American authors\, James Baldwin. Conversations with Baldwin is produced by Words of Colour and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/conversations-with-baldwin-the-salon-baldwin-on-friendship/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T193000
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Launch: THERE WAS A PARTY FOR LANGSTON by Jason Reynolds\, Jerome Pumphrey\, Jarrett Pumphrey\, and Jacqueline Woodson
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) debut picture book along with the illustrators Jerome & Jarrett Pumphrey\, all in conversation with award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. “There Was a Party for Langston” is a snappy\, joyous ode to Word King\, literary genius\, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Join us at the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. \n\n\n\nReynolds & the Pumphreys will discuss the inspiration behind and creation of their new book\, discuss the significance of Hughes’s life\, and take pictures with attendees. All books will be presigned (no personalization) and attendees will be able to take pictures with the authors. \n\n\n\nFree tickets are available for teachers (limited amount) and discounted bulk tickets & books available for youth organizations & schools.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/nyc-book-launch-there-was-a-party-for-langston-by-jason-reynolds-jerome-pumphrey-jarrett-pumphrey-and-jacqueline-woodson/
LOCATION:Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, 515 Malcolm X Blvd\, New York City\, New York\, 10037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Word Up Community Bookshop":MAILTO:info@wordupbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T200000
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SUMMARY:CCW Book Launch: Nada Samih-Rotondo presents "All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir"
DESCRIPTION:Join Cambridge Common Writers as we celebrate the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012)’s\, All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir. A debut work from a Palestinian-American author\, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author’s ancestral origins–the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine–to her birthplace of Kuwait\, eventually landing on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/ccw-book-launch-nada-samih-rotondo-presents-all-water-has-perfect-memory-a-memoir/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,CCW Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T181207
CREATED:20230830T235817Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening at Books and Books with Pamela Petro and Thomas Swick
DESCRIPTION:Books & Books presents an evening with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) & Thomas Swick discussing Petro’s book: The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir.This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event so make sure to stay after the talk for a book signing! \n\n\n\nFor 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\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\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.”Pamela 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.Thomas Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1989 to 2008. His work has appeared in numerous print and online publications\, as well as in six editions of The Best American Travel Writing. His most recent book\, the memoir Falling into Place: A Story of Love\, Poland\, and the Making of a Travel Writer\, will be out in November. He lives with his wife Hania in Fort Lauderdale and in his free time does cartooning and street photography.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-at-books-and-books-with-pamela-petro-and-thomas-swick/
LOCATION:Books & Books in Coral Gables\, 265 Aragon Ave\, Coral Gables\, Florida\, 33134\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T113000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for "Sensitive" by Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join RJ Julia Independent Booksellers to celebrate the launch of Sara Levine’s (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) latest picture book\, Sensitive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA unique and powerful look at the ways being sensitive and having big feelings is a strength \n\n\n\n“You feel way too much.” / “Will you stop being dramatic?“ \n\n\n\nThis tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense\, too sensitive\, too much. She’s told to grow a thicker skin\, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an author\, educator\, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series\, Germs Up Close\, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize\, Utah Beehive Book Award\, Cook Prize finalist\, Monarch Award master list\, and Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-for-sensitive-by-sara-levine/
LOCATION:RJ Julia Independent Booksellers\, 768 Boston Post Road\, Madison\, Connecticut\, 06443\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T163000
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SUMMARY:City Books OcTBRfest: Bonita Lee Penn "Every Morning a Foot is Looking for My Neck"
DESCRIPTION:Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry\, January 2015) reads from her chapbook\, “Every Morning a Foot is Looking for My Neck” at the City Books OcTBRfest event.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/city-books-octbrfest-bonita-lee-penn-every-morning-a-foot-is-looking-for-my-neck/
LOCATION:City Books\, 908 Galveston Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, 15233\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="City Books":MAILTO:citybookspgh@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260527T181207
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SUMMARY:𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗵-𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 Heartleaf Books
DESCRIPTION:𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 takes us from the author’s ancestral roots along the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine\, to the shores of Rhode Island. Nada Samih-Rotondo’s (Fiction\, June 2012) powerful narrative unravels the layers of silence within families\, revealing untold stories with an enchanting blend of folklore that explores the profound connection between our bodies\, our ancestors\, and the Earth itself.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/%f0%9d%97%a1%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%b1%f0%9d%97%ae-%f0%9d%97%a6%f0%9d%97%ae%f0%9d%97%ba%f0%9d%97%b6%f0%9d%97%b5-%f0%9d%97%a5%f0%9d%97%bc%f0%9d%98%81%f0%9d%97%bc%f0%9d%97%bb%f0%9d%97%b1%f0%9d%97%bc/
LOCATION:Heartleaf Books\, 374 Atwells Ave\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231009T200000
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SUMMARY:SALT THE WATER | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Author Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017) will be joined by conversation partner Ebony LaDelle and special guest Rasheed Copeland. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and after the event\, and Candice will be signing following the program. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all. The program begins at 6:00 pm\, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of SALT THE WATER will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will NOT be livestreamed. \n\n\n\nGuests should RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books. \n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington\, DC\, and Brooklyn\, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony\, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and\, in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water is their third novel. \n\n\n\nEbony LaDelle is the author of Love Radio—which was People magazine’s best book of the summer\, Apple Books’s best book of 2022\, an Amazon’s Editor Pick\, and featured on the Today show. Prior to being an author\, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins\, among others. Born in Michigan\, awoken at Howard University\, and cultivated in Brooklyn\, Ebony can usually be found eating out somewhere or being the undisputed Mom Friend of any group. You can visit her online at EbonyLaDelle.com and follow her on social at @EbonyLaDelle. \n\n\n\nRasheed Copeland is a native of Washington\, DC. He is a father and author of Mud Jubilee (Self-published\, 2021) and The Book of Silence: Manhood as a Pseudoscience (Sergeant Press\, 2015). He is a multiple recipient of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award and has performed and facilitated writing workshops across the country and internationally. He placed 2nd in the world at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam. His work has been featured in online publications such as Poets.org\, Split This Rock\, and the Crab Orchard Review.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/salt-the-water-a-busboys-and-poets-books-presentation/
LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 450 K Street NW\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T140000
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SUMMARY:Meaningful Parent-Child Conversations with Rebecca Rolland
DESCRIPTION:Join Doing Good Together for a live-streamed parent webinar by Rebecca Rolland (Fiction\, June 2017)\, Harvard professor and author of The Art of Talking with Children. Following the event\, registered attendees will receive a webinar recording\, Festival of Giving Activity Guide and be added to the Doing Good Together monthly newsletter\, packed with kindness tips and resources.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/meaningful-parent-child-conversations-with-rebecca-rolland/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T193000
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SUMMARY:Candice Iloh: Salt the Water w/ Ibi Zoboi & Mila Myles
DESCRIPTION:From Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017)\, a verse novel about Cerulean Gene\, a nonbinary Black teenager searching for a new way to do more than survive in post-pandemic America. \n\n\n\nCerulean and their friends went into senior year—the first year of normal school after the pandemic—with a plan: keep their heads down in class\, save money\, and get the hell out of the Bronx once they graduate. If teachers are going to force them to read Huckleberry Finn\, then they can’t blame kids for “lighting out for the territory.” Cerulean is convinced that there must be somewhere better than the Bronx and is focused on learning how to grow and make food so they can all be self-sufficient when they finally make their break. \n\n\n\nBurned-out teachers and their father’s badly timed workplace accident send Cerulean reeling off course\, but Bronx babies are resiliant and resourceful\, and Salt the Water is ultimately a radically hopeful vision of life beyond mere survival. \n\n\n\nThis event will be in-person and on YouTube Live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer from the Midwest by way of Washington\, D.C. and Brooklyn\, New York whose books center home\, self-awareness\, and Black sustainability. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Break This House is their second novel. \n\n\n\nIbi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and her debut middle grade novel\, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich\, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride\, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice\, and editor of the anthology\, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller\, Punching the Air\, is a YA novel in verse\, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Raised in New York City\, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children. \n\n\n\nMila Myles is a writer/comedian\, actor\, host and trans media specialist who resides and performs in both NY & LA. They have been featured on HBO\, Allure\, The New York Film Fest\, providence film fest\, NowThisNews and in Vogue online. Salt The Water is their first audiobook.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/candice-iloh-salt-the-water-w-ibi-zoboi-mila-myles/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights Branch\, 286 Cadman Plaza West\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Books Are Magic":MAILTO:hello@booksaremagic.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing Home/Homeland with Nancy Agabian\, Nada Samih-Rotondo & Jared Harél
DESCRIPTION:Join Books on the Square on Friday\, October 13th at 7:00 p.m. for Writing Home/Homeland with Nancy Abagian\, Nada Samih-Rotondo\, and Jared Harel. \n\n\n\nThe Fear of Large and Small Nations  by Nancy Abagian  \n\n\n\nIn The Fear of Large and Small Nations\, feminist writer and teacher Natalee—aka Na—seeks to reclaim her cultural roots in Armenia only to be confronted with the many contradictions of being a diasporan. When she falls for a charismatic younger man and returns with him to New York City\, Na becomes trapped in an abusive web of codependency\, bound by intergenerational trauma\, political ideals\, and\, above all\, love. Written in gripping short stories interspersed with intimate journal entries and blog posts\, the fragmented narrative reveals what is lost in the tightrope passage between cultures ravaged by violence and colonialism—and what is gained when Na seizes control of her story\, pulsating in its many shades and realities\, daring to be witnessed. \n\n\n\nNancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak\, a mixed genre collection of poems\, short prose\, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage\, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter\, a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family’s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize. In 2021\, Nancy received the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary. Her novel The Fear of Large and Small Nations\, a multilayered epic on Armenian diaspora-homeland relationships\, was honored as a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. She is currently working on a personal essay collection\, In-Between Mouthfuls. \n\n\n\nNancy has an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She taught creative writing at Queens College for ten years as an adjunct\, where she was awarded for excellence in teaching in 2012. She has been teaching in the Writing Program at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University since 2009.  She recently relocated to Massachusetts to care for her parents. Her mother passed away in 2022; Nancy continues to care for her father. \n\n\n\nAll Water has Perfect Memory: A Memoir by Nada Samih-Rotondo \n\n\n\nLife changed forever for six-year-old Nada following Iraq’s invasion of her birth country\, Kuwait\, and subsequent immigration to the United States with her maternal family. Just as she finally settles into her strange new life apart from her father in Rhode Island\, learns English\, and grasps the fact that she is not merely visiting but is here to stay\, life throws other surprises her way to forever change her world. \n\n\n\nA debut work from a Palestinian American author\, All Water Has a Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author’s ancestral origins- the coast of Yaffa\, Palestine\, to her birthplace of Kuwait\, eventually landing on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The narrative confronts generations of silence and\, ultimately\, revelation with an imaginative blend of folklore and history that explores the relationship between our bodies\, ancestors\, and the Earth. The work explores the way the author is intertwined with her maternal line while reuniting with her father after a 30-year separation. \n\n\n\nVoices once hidden in the waters of our bodies are amplified and released to forever alter the landscape\, breaking cycles and seeding an audacious hope interconnected to lands past and present. \n\n\n\nNada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer\, educator\, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College\, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review\, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine\, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works at Brown University. \n\n\n\nLet Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél \n\n\n\nLet Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying\, wondrous\, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear\, dynamic verses that disarm then strike\, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity\, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Island or simply showing his son snowflakes on Inauguration morning\, Harél guides us toward moments of intimacy and understanding\, humor and grief. \n\n\n\n“I will try\,” he admits\, “to be better than myself\, which is all/I’ve ever wanted and everything I need.” Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a secular prayer. Hoping against hope\, Harél works to reconcile feelings of luck and loss\, of living for joy while fearing the worst. \n\n\n\nJared Harél is the author of Go Because I Love You. He has been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review and the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Bennington Review\, New Ohio Review\, Ploughshares\, Poem-a-Day\, the Southern Review\, and The Sun. Harél teaches writing\, plays drums\, and lives in Westchester\, New York\, with his wife and two children.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-home-homeland-with-nancy-agabian-nada-samih-rotondo-jared-harel/
LOCATION:Books on the Square\, 471 Angell Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02906\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Sara Levine\, author of Sensitive
DESCRIPTION:Porter Square Books welcomes Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) for an author talk and book signing in celebration of the launch of her new book\, Sensitive! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“You feel way too much.” / “Will you stop being dramatic?” \n\n\n\nThis tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense\, too sensitive\, too much. She’s told to grow a thicker skin\, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an award-winning picture book author\, veterinarian and educator. Sensitive is her tenth book\, and she has four more coming out in the next few years. As a child\, she was often told that she was too sensitive and needed to grow a thicker skin. Her skin may not have gotten thicker since then\, but she has learned to appreciate her sensitivity and the ways it helps her create books\, work with animals and care for children. Visit Sara online at http://www.saralevinebooks.com/
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-with-sara-levine-author-of-sensitive/
LOCATION:Porter Square Books\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
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SUMMARY:Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents Naomi Mulvihill and Hilary Sallick
DESCRIPTION:Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a hybrid reading with Naomi Mulvihill and Hilary Sallick with an introduction by Lloyd Schwartz. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom. Registration Required. \n\n\n\nNaomi Mulvihill (Poetry\, 2011) was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MA. Her chapbook\, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press)\, won the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her first full length volume of poems\, The Knife Thrower’s Girl\, was awarded the 2022 Washington Prize (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, New Orleans Review\, Salamander\, Cimarron\, West Branch and others\, and featured in Verse Daily. Naomi’s essays on language and learning have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and Harvard Educational Review. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools. \n\n\n\nHilary Sallick is the author of two full-length poetry collections\, Love Is A Shore (Lily Poetry Review Books) and Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press). Her poems appear in Notre Dame Review\, Leon Literary Review\, Vita Poetica\, Ibbetson Street\, and other journals. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy\, she also serves on the Board of the New England Poetry Club. She lives and works in Somerville\, MA.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grolier-poetry-book-shop-presents-naomi-mulvihill-and-hilary-sallick/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:B&N Multi-Genre Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Join local authors as the Holyoke\, MA Barnes & Noble location for a meet and greet and book signing. \n\n\n\nLocal authors: \n\n\n\n\nAlexander Reed\n\n\n\nArleta Rae\n\n\n\nBrittany Czarnecki\n\n\n\nCelia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction\, 2008)\n\n\n\nHeidi Parker Colonna\n\n\n\nJ.J. Alo\n\n\n\nJim Price\n\n\n\nLiza Ketchum\n\n\n\nLM Kaplin\n\n\n\nLomel T\n\n\n\nMatthew Bartlett\n\n\n\nNadija Mujagic\n\n\n\nRebecca Rowland\n\n\n\nRick Stromoski\n\n\n\nSuzanne Kozikowski\n\n\n\nWes Dyson
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/bn-multi-genre-author-event/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble – Holyoke\, 7 Holyoke Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040\, United States
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