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SUMMARY:Arrowsmith Fall 2023 Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Arrowsmith Press for their Fall 2023 Book Launch with authors Christopher Merrill\, Diane Mehta\, and Steven Cramer (MFA Writing Faculty\, Poetry). This event will take place both in-person at the Boston University Katzenberg Center and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/arrowsmith-fall-2023-book-launch/
LOCATION:Boston University Katzenberg Center\, 871 Commonwealth Avenue\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Arrowsmith Press":MAILTO:arrowsmithpress@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:CCW Book Launch with Jody Hobbs Hesler
DESCRIPTION:Join Cambridge Common Writers as we celebrate the launch of Jody Hobbs Hesler’s (Fiction\, June 2017) new book\, What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe grisly death of the hermit outsider in a tight-knit neighborhood prompts a young mom to yearn for solitude. A man wrestles with regrets from a 30-year-old affair while his wife hovers toward death in the ICU. An older\, childless woman aches to rescue the seemingly mistreated child she observes in the grocery store. And a girl’s desire to avoid the party her father dragged her to nearly gets her abducted. Told with restraint and deep compassion against the backdrop of Virginia back streets and small towns\, Jody Hobbs Hesler’s debut collection shines with its portraits of longing\, disconnection\, and the ache for renewal and redemption that comes from our own frailties.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/ccw-book-launch-with-jody-hobbs-hesler/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cambridge Common Writers":MAILTO:lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Book World Meets Wine World with Jody Hobbs Hesler
DESCRIPTION:Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017) will present her book What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better as part of a benefit for the Literacy Council of Madison County at Revalation Vineyards. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe grisly death of the hermit outsider in a tight-knit neighborhood prompts a young mom to yearn for solitude. A man wrestles with regrets from a 30-year-old affair while his wife hovers toward death inthe ICU. An older\, childless woman aches to rescue the seemingly mistreated child she observes in the grocery store. And a girl’s desire to avoid the party her father dragged her to nearly gets her abducted. Told with restraint and deep compassion against the backdrop of Virginia back streets and small towns\, Jody Hobbs Hesler’s debut collection shines with its portraits of longing\, disconnection\, and the ache for renewal and redemption that comes from our own frailties.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-world-meets-wine-world-with-jody-hobbs-hesler/
LOCATION:Revalation Vineyards\, 2710 Hebron Valley Rd\, Madison\, Virginia\, 22727\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Steven Cramer and Pamela Petro at Tidepool Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pamela Petro (Nonficton/Graphic Novel & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) will be at Tidepool Bookshop to read and discuss their respective works\, Departures from Rilke and The Long Field. \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer’s newest book of poems\, Departures from Rilke\, derives from his favorites among Rainer Maria Rilke’s two volumes of New Poems (1907/08). Cramer repurposes\, updates\, and sometimes upends the subject matter and style of the originals\, often leaving Rilke’s premises almost altogether. A practice dating back to Thomas Wyatt’s imports of Petrarch and including Robert Lowell’s Imitations (1961)\, Cramer’s approach makes for an original poetry of personal and contemporary resonance\, while remaining alert to Rilke’s chastening presence. \n\n\n\n\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/steven-cramer-and-pamela-petro-at-tidepool-bookshop/
LOCATION:Tidepool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Picture Book: From Concept to Completion with Deborah Sosin
DESCRIPTION:DEBORAH SOSIN (Nonfiction\, January 2015) is a writer\, editor\, psychotherapist\, and GrubStreet instructor. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Boston Globe Magazine\, Salon\, Cognoscenti\, Brevity Blog\, and elsewhere. Her craft essay on the self as antihero in creative nonfiction appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle. She is the author of the forthcoming Sober Starting Today Workbook: Powerful Mindfulness & CBT Tools to Help You Break Free from Addiction (March 2024\, New Harbinger Publications). Her picture book\, Charlotte and the Quiet Place\, illustrated by Sara Woolley (Parallax Press\, 2015)\, won the Gold INDIEFAB and Silver IPPY awards\, among several honors. In addition to her Lesley MFA\, she holds an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. Since 2009\, Debbie has led “Write It Like It Is” freewriting groups. She is working on an essay collection titled Heartbeats and Other Seismic Matters.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-making-of-a-picture-book-from-concept-to-completion-with-deborah-sosin/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Cornerstone Press Book Launch with Jody Hobbs Hesler
DESCRIPTION:Join Cornerstone Press for a celebration of several of their authors\, including Jeff Esterholm\, Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017)\, and Kevin Clouther. This event will be in-person and livestreamed.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cornerstone-press-book-launch-with-jody-hobbs-hesler/
LOCATION:Noel Fine Arts Center Michelsen Hall\, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point\, 1800 Portage St\, Stevens Point\, Wisconsin\, 54481\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cornerstone Press":MAILTO:webmaster@uwsp.edu
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SUMMARY:Red Letter Live Poetry Readings with Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:Back again for 2023\, Arlington Open Studios will be hosting poetry readings by local poets. This year’s readings are being presented in the Arlington Center for the Arts’ Shaira Ali Gallery\, 3rd floor of the Arlington Community Center\, 1-3pm. \n\n\n\nParticipating Poets: \n\n\n\n\nSteven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)\n\n\n\nCharles O. Hartman\n\n\n\nNathan McClain\n\n\n\nLee Varon\n\n\n\nElizabeth Burke
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/red-letter-live-poetry-readings-with-steven-cramer-2/
LOCATION:Arlington Center for the Arts’ Shaira Ali Gallery\, 20 Academy St\, Arlington\, Massachusetts\, 02476\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Arlington Open Studios":MAILTO:info@acarts.org
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SUMMARY:Lifting Up Marginalized Voices: Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Sunu P. Chandy\, Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017)\, and Martha Anne Toll for Lifting Up Marginalized Voices: a Reading and Discussion at The Potter’s House! \n\n\n\nSunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s the daughter of immigrants from Kerala\, India\, a queer woman of color\, and lives in Washington\, D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems\, My Dear Comrades\, was published by Regal House in 2023. \n\n\n\nJody Hobbs Hesler has written ever since she could hold a pencil and now lives and writes in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her debut story collection\, What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better was published by Cornerstone Press in October 2023. Jody teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville\, Virginia and reads for The Los Angeles Review.  \n\n\n\nMartha Anne Toll’s debut novel\, Three Muses\, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. Toll brings a long career in social justice to her work covering authors of color and women writers as a critic and author interviewer at NPR Books\, the Washington Post\, Pointe Magazine\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. Toll is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lifting-up-marginalized-voices-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Potter’s House\, 1658 COLUMBIA ROAD NORTHWEST\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20009\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Potter's House":MAILTO:events@pottershousedc.org
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SUMMARY:All Water Has Perfect Memory: Book Talk with Nada-Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Mystic Seaport Museum is excited to host local author Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) as she reads excerpts from her new memoir\, All Water Has Perfect Memory\, in the Treworgy Planetarium. Guests will enjoy an immersive storytelling experience that showcases the exact star patterns overhead as they appear in her book\, followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of All Water Has Perfect Memory. This program is best for ages 13+. Registration is required to attend.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-water-has-perfect-memory-book-talk-with-nada-samih-rotondo/
LOCATION:Mystic Seaport Museum\, 75 Greenmanville Ave\, Mystic\, Connecticut\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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