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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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