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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Dolores Hayden at Phosphorescence with Terry Blackhawk and Marilyn Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Phosphorescence July 2022 featured poets:\nTerry Blackhawk\, Dolores Hayden\, and Marilyn Nelson\nVIRTUAL PROGRAM\nThis virtual program is free to attend. Registration is required. \nREGISTER \nTo Emily Dickinson\, phosphorescence\, was a divine spark and the illuminating light behind learning — it was volatile\, but transformative in nature. Produced by the Emily Dickinson Museum\, the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series celebrates contemporary creativity that echoes Dickinson’s own revolutionary poetic voice. The Series features established and emerging poets whose work and backgrounds represent the diversity of the flourishing contemporary poetry scene. The 2022 Series will be a virtual event to ensure the health and safety of participants. While we are disappointed not to gather together in Amherst\, we are excited to connect with a global community of friends and writers.  Join us on the last Thursdays of each month to hear from poets around the world as they read their work and discuss what poetry and Dickinson mean to them. \n  \nAbout this month’s poets:\n \nTerry Bohnhorst Blackhawk is Founding Director (1995-2015) of InsideOut Literary Arts Project dedicated to amplifying the voices of Detroit youth. While still a high school Creative Writing teacher\, Blackhawk won a National Endowment for the Humanities “Teacher Scholar” sabbatical (1992-1993) to study Emily Dickinson. Other awards are the 2010 Pablo Neruda Prize and grants from Michigan Council for the Arts and Kresge Arts in Detroit. Her five full- length poetry collections include Escape Artist (2003)\, winner of the John Ciardi Prize\, and One Less River\, named a Top 2019 Indie Poetry Title by Kirkus Reviews. A fourth chapbook\, Maumee\, Maumee\, is forthcoming from Alice Greene & Co.\nterrymblackhawk.com \n  \n  \n\nDolores Hayden\, urban historian and poet\, is professor emerita at Yale University. Her books on the American landscape include The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History and Building Suburbia. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies including Poetry\, Raritan\, Ecotone\, Yale Review\, The Common\, and Best American Poetry. She is the author of three poetry collections: American Yard\, Nymph\, Dun\, and Spinner\, and Exuberance\, set in the earliest years of American aviation when daredevil pilots—women and men—thrilled spectators who had never seen an airplane.\ndoloreshayden.com \n  \n  \n\n \nMarilyn Nelson is the author or translator of seventeen poetry books and the memoir How I Discovered Poetry. She is also the author of The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems\, which won the 1998 Poets’ Prize\, Carver: A Life In Poems\, which won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award\, and Fortune’s Bones\, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. She is also the author of the biography Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life (2022). Nelson’s honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships\, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award\, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship\, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Frost Medal. She was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006. \nmarilyn-nelson.com
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/virtual-dolores-hayden-at-phosphorescence-with-terry-blackhawk-and-marilyn-nelson/
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SUMMARY:LIVE on ZOOM - DOLORES HAYDEN in the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:To Emily Dickinson\, phosphorescence\, was a divine spark and the illuminating light behind learning — it was volatile\, but transformative in nature. Produced by the Emily Dickinson Museum\, the Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series celebrates contemporary creativity that echoes Dickinson’s own revolutionary poetic voice. The Series features established and emerging poets whose work and backgrounds represent the diversity of the flourishing contemporary poetry scene. The 2022 Series will be a virtual event to ensure the health and safety of participants. While we are disappointed not to gather together in Amherst\, we are excited to connect with a global community of friends and writers.  Join us on the last Thursdays of each month to hear from poets around the world as they read their work and discuss what poetry and Dickinson mean to them.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/live-on-zoom-dolores-hayden-in-the-phosphorescence-poetry-reading-series/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation and Celebration with Lisa Greer and Kate Gale
DESCRIPTION:Red Hen Press is pleased to announce a celebration of Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors\, Build Relationships\, and Make a Difference\, by philanthropist\, entrepreneur\, convener\, Lisa Greer. The book– the first and only book on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector written from a donor perspective– sounds the alarm on what Lisa sees as an endemic problem among charitable organizations: fundraising tactics that are illogical\, irritating\, ineffective\, and that hold back the sector’s progress. Lisa will briefly read from Philanthropy Revolution\, and then join in conversation with Red Hen Press’ co-founder and Managing Editor Kate Gale. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments to follow. We can’t wait to see you at Red Hen Press’ headquarters in Pasadena to hear Lisa detail her mission to “Save Giving” – and why an optimized nonprofit sector is so incredibly important in shaping the future.  \n \nClick here for more information on Lisa Greer and Philanthropy Revolution. \n\nDisclaimer: This event was originally scheduled for May 18\, 2022\, but was rescheduled due to unforeseen (non-COVID-related) circumstances.\n \nABOUT PHILANTHROPY REVOLUTION:\n\nIn the first book on philanthropy written from a donor’s perspective\, businesswoman and philanthropist Lisa Greer lifts the lid on our charitable sector\, with an authentic account that describes exactly how outdated the sector has become and why it’s at risk of collapse. \n \n\nWeaving in her story of instant wealth and philanthropy\, Lisa showcases the latest research\, as well as dozens of interviews with donors\, nonprofit professionals and leading academics in the field. She also provides much-needed ethical solutions that apply to any business\, including: \n• Upfront ways to ask for money\n• Effective communications strategies\n• Ways to be transparent from the outset\n• How to curate meaningful events \nPhilanthropy Revolution is the handbook all fundraisers\, nonprofits and donors should be using to create trusting\, authentic partnerships that can be sustained long-term. Philanthropy is changing dramatically and it needs nothing short of an intervention to succeed. In this book\, Lisa Greer shows us how to ‘save giving’ by providing a clear path to success. With her help\, the nonprofit world will see its donors energized\, its charities better supported and its impact increased\, all while building a more honest philanthropic culture.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/a-conversation-and-celebration-with-lisa-greer-and-kate-gale/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
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SUMMARY:ANNA V.Q. ROSS Reading at "Opening Celebration of Native American and American Art Gallery"
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 23\, 2022 from 10 am-5 pm \nIncluded with admission \nCelebrate our new exhibition On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America\, which explores how art can help us understand what it means to belong to family\, community\, and this place we now call America. Enjoy the acoustic melodies of Kalyn Fay Barnoski and the folkloric sounds of Grace Givertz\, then experience the power of poetry with live readings from published author Anna V. Q. Ross\, the innovative duo Adobo-Fish-Sauce\, and a poetry screening featuring Amanda Gorman. Head over to the Create Studio in the afternoon to create your own pinch pot home out of clay.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/anna-v-q-ross-reading-at-opening-celebration-of-native-american-and-american-art-gallery/
LOCATION:Peabody Essex Museum\, East India Square\, 161 Essex Street\, Salem\, MA\, 01970\, United States
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SUMMARY:POETRY PARLEY: Emily Wall
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Parley is a free poetry event. Each month the Parley features a local poet who reads their own work. Readers choose poems by the featured poet’s chosen poet of influence. “FRINGE!” follows\, wherein the floor is open to sharing three poems or taking five minutes per poet – whichever is less. \n  \nFor July 20\, Parley has chosen Emily Wall\, with Poem of Influence the iconic Sylvia Plath. \n  \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86057207353?pwd=dmVJeUdHNExPbU4vcEJsZldaR0d3QT09 \n 
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/poetry-parley-emily-wall/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Port Townsend Writer's Conference at Centrum
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Millares Young will be at the Port Townsend Writer’s Conference! She will be leading the generative workshop titled “The Architecture of the Unsaid.” Morning Faculty (Fiction)\, Craft Lecture and Performance\, curated by Artistic Director Gary Copeland Lilley. \nOpen to vaccinated participants and faculty.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/port-townsend-writers-conference-at-centrum/
LOCATION:Fort Worden\, 200 Battery Way\, Port Townsend\, WA\, 98368\, United States
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Yuvi Zalkow with Mysti Berry at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, JULY 13 AT 7PM PT WHEN YUVI ZALKOW CELEBRATES HIS NOVEL\, I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS\, WITH MYSTI BERRY AT 9TH AVE!\nMasks and Proof of Vaccination Required \nOr watch online by registering at the link below\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0_HOmSBT3CSaV3vmWKYBg\n \nPraise for I Only Cry with Emoticons\n“A sly\, forthright comedy about the intersection of love and technology\, men and women\, and the way our devices have become a loud third wheel. I couldn’t put it down.”—Monica Drake\, author of Clown Girl and The Stud Book \n“Explores the ordinary ways our lives can go terribly wrong despite our best intentions. In their often-hilarious attempts to find common ground\, Zalkow’s characters navigate self-sabotage\, second chances\, and the complicated fluid definition of family in the twenty-first century.”—Margaret Malone\, author of People Like You (winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award) \n“A refreshingly zany story about the pitfalls of modern technology and the importance of chasing dreams.” — Kirkus Reviews \nAbout I Only Cry with Emoticons\nI Only Cry with Emoticons is a quirky comedy that reveals the cost of being disconnected—even when we’re using a dozen apps on our devices to communicate—and an awkward man’s search for real connections\, on and offline. \nSaul doesn’t get why he’s misunderstood. At his high-tech day job\, he hides in the bathroom writing a novel about his dead grandfather and wonders why his boss wants to fire him. He tells his almost ex-wife about a blind date and wonders why she slams the door in his face. He aches with worry for his seven-year-old son\, who seems happier living with his mom and her new man. \nWhen the blind date becomes a complicated relationship\, and Saul’s blunders at work threaten the survival of the company\, Saul has to wake up and confront his fears. \nI Only Cry with Emoticons is a quirky comedy that reveals the cost of being disconnected—even when we’re using a dozen apps on our devices to communicate—and an awkward man’s search for real connections\, on and offline. \nAbout Yuvi Zalkow\nYuvi Zalkow is the author of the novel\, A Brilliant Novel in the Works (MP Publishing 2012). His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train\, Narrative Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Rosebud\, The Los Angeles Review\, and others. He received an MFA from Antioch University. Yuvi also uses his poor drawing skills to make YouTube videos and mobile apps that ooze with his worries and anxiety. You can find out too much information about him at yuvizalkow.com. Yuvi lives with his wife\, daughter\, and grumpy cats in Portland\, Oregon. \nAbout Mysti Berry\nMysti Berry works in San Francisco and lives in a forgotten corner of The City with her husband\, graphic novelist Dale Berry and a small black rescue cat. An active member of MWA\, Sisters in Crime\, and ITW\, Mysti serves on the board of her local Sisters in Crime chapter (NorCal!) and has previously served on the board of the PSWA and Desert Sleuths chapter of SinC. Mysti is the editor and publisher of Low Down Dirty Vote\, three volumes of short stories created to raise money for voting rights work. All three volumes contain stories by award-winning writers. Mysti’s short stories have been published in EQMM\, AHMM\, and several crime-fiction anthologies. http://www.mystiberry.com
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/9th-ave-yuvi-zalkow-with-mysti-berry-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 1231 9th Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yuvi Zalkow at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:more info to come!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/yuvi-zalkow-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON: Pamela Uschuk at CHATTER ABQ
DESCRIPTION:*** COVID Safety Note: Masks are encouraged\, and Chatter continues to provide supplemental air filtration. Protocols are subject to change. \nJonathan Dove Figures in the Garden\nAlfred Schnittke Hymnus no. 2\nAntonin Dvorak Serenade for Winds in D minor\, op. 44 \nMelissa Peña\, Karen Wagner oboe\nJames Shields\, Sergei Vassiliev clarinet\nKai Rocke\, Ben Roidl-Ward bassoon\nPeter Erb\, Jeff Rogers\, Julia Erdmann Hyams horn\nJames Holland cello\nNina DeCesare bass \n\nPamela Uschuk spoken word
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/in-person-pamela-uschuk-at-chatter-abq/
LOCATION:Chatter\, 912 3rd Street NW\, Albuquerque\, NM\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON: Pamela Uschuk at SITE Santa Fe
DESCRIPTION:Chatter\n\nSaturday\, Jun 25\, 2022\, 10:30am at SITE Santa Fe\nChatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning. \nJonathan Dove Figures in the Garden\nAlfred Schnittke Hymnus no. 2\nAntonin Dvorak Serenade for Winds in D minor\, op. 44 \nMelissa Peña\, Karen Wagner oboe\nJames Shields\, Sergei Vassiliev clarinet\nKai Rocke bassoon\nPeter Erb\, Jeff Rogers\, Julia Erdmann Hyams horn\nJames Holland cello\nNina DeCesare bass \nPamela Uschuk poet
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/in-person-pamela-uschuk-at-site-santa-fe/
LOCATION:SITE\, 1606 Paseo de Peralta\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States
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SUMMARY:Red Hen Book Fair!
DESCRIPTION:Outside: Book Sale Bonanza! – 1p-5p\nBLOWOUT SALE! Starting at $1\, bring home steeply discounted books and support local nonprofit publisher Red Hen Press as we strive to bring new and diverse books to the world!\nFood Truck on site!\n\nInside: WITS Graduates Open Mic\, 3p-5p\nStudent Anthology Release Party!Join us for food and drinks to celebrate the culmination of our Writing in the Schools program!\nActivities include WITS students open mic and interactive book activities for both kids and adults\nAll students\, parents\, teachers\, and community members welcome!\n\nVaccination Statement: Masks and proof of vaccination required inside
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/red-hen-book-fair/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Red Hen Readathon!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an incredible two-hour celebration of literature and publishing! We invite you to support Red Hen Press in this spring fundraiser with donations or book purchases! Listen to our slate of award-winning\, bestselling\, rave-reviewed authors from our Spring 2022 season share some of their incredible work\, learn more about the Red Hen Press initiative\, and be a part of our journey by supporting us today!\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_FPN9H8rfRPmKfWcUsvkgoQ
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/red-hen-readathon/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Carlos Allende at the UCLA Writer's Program Instructors Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Carlos Allende\, author of Coffee\, Shopping\, Murder\, Love will be at the UCLA Writer’s Program Instructors Publication Party on June 8\, 2022 from 7:00 to 9:30! More information to come!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/carlos-allende-at-the-ucla-writers-program-instructors-publication-party/
LOCATION:Skirball Cultural Center\, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yuvi Zalkow book launch event at Powell's Books
DESCRIPTION:June 7 @ 7pm Powell’s Books\, Portland\, OR\n• Book launch event with Joanna Rose\n…and Yuvi’s animations \nmore info to come!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/yuvi-zalkow-book-launch-event-at-powells-books/
LOCATION:Powell’s City of Books\, 1005 W. Burnside St\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diane Thiel and Carl Marcum Discussion\, Reading\, and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Red Hen Press has teamed up with Lost City Bookstore in Washington\, D.C. for a virtual event series in 2022! \nJoin us in welcoming Diane Thiel and Carl Marcum as they discuss their collections of poetry Questions from Outer Spaceand A Camera Obscura! \nAbout Questions from Outer Space : \nCompelling poems with brave\, insightful\, often humorous observations of the world. \nDiane Thiel’s eagerly anticipated collection of poems\, Questions from Outer Space\, explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions on many fronts\, challenging assumptions and locating unique angles of perception. This thought-provoking book reflects a deep engagement with the natural world\, a questioning of our built systems\, the expansive wilderness of parenting\, and the complexities of navigating outer and inner space. \nAbout A Camera Obscura : \nFrom the edge of a singularity and across desert roads at night\, A Camera Obscura teleports its readers through deep space nebulae and the constructs of cityscapes to arrive at what it means to “see.” Lovers embrace in sonnets and meditations move through artworks and Hubble Telescope images as these poems employ ekphrastic visions to balance the profound displacements in the most mundane aspects of our lives with science\, fact\, faith\, and song. In the ceremonial blades of Aztec sacrifice and the anonymity of undocumented lives\, these poems accrete into a solar system of images seen true\, seen askance\, seen in error\, seen entire. A Camera Obscura is the dark room of the imagination where sīgnum–the sign\, the act–becomes the tangible testaments of living. \n*** \nDiane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry and nonfiction\, including Echolocations and Resistance Fantasies. Thiel’s work has appeared in Poetry\, The Hudson Review\, The Hopkins Review\, and numerous other publications. Her awards include a PEN Award\, the Nicholas Roerich Prize\, and a Fulbright. Thiel received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and has traveled and lived in Europe\, South America\, Asia\, and Australia\, working on literary and environmental projects. She is Regents’ Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and lives in the Sandia Mountain foothills. \nCarl Marcum is a Chicano poet from Tucson\, Arizona. He is the author of the collection Cue Lazarus\, and his poems have appeared in the anthologies The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction & Fantasy. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Marcum has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the Taos Writers Conference. He served as a Canto Mundo Fellow from 2011–2015. Marcum taught for many years at DePaul University in Chicago and now lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, where he is the managing director of a small engineering and environmental consulting firm in the Marcellus Shale. \nQuestions from Outer Space and A Camera Obscura will be available at Lost City Books!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/diane-thiel-and-carl-marcum-discussion-reading-and-qa/
LOCATION:Youtube Live
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SUMMARY:Adam Kirsch at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:More details to come!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/adam-kirsch-at-the-grolier-poetry-bookshop/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Bookshop\, 6 Plympton St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jenny Qi\, Pete Hsu\, and Lily Hoang at Skylight Books
DESCRIPTION:Join the incredible Jenny Qi\, Pete Hsu\, and Lily Hoang at Skylight Books for a gorgeous conversation on their upcoming releases\, and on trauma\, identity\, violence\, and belonging.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/jenny-qi-pete-hsu-and-lily-hoang-at-skylight-books/
LOCATION:Skylight Books\, 1818 N. Vermont Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Women…Water…Spirals Exhibition Launch
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 22\, 2022\n2:00 pm – 5:00 pm\nRed Hen Press\n1540 Lincoln Ave.\nPasadena\, CA 91103 \n  \nRed Hen Press is celebrating the re-opening of our art gallery space at the Hen House Literary Center! We’re thrilled and honored to welcome over 80 artists to our community center\, including Rachel X Hobreigh\, Renee Amitai\, 50 artists from the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media\, and 30 local Los Angeles artists! These incredible artists are all donating some or all of their proceeds from art sales to Red Hen Press\, and we are so grateful for their generosity. Join us at the opening party for this wonderful celebration and take home a unique\, exclusive art piece!\nRefreshments will be provided! All attendees must be fully vaccinated and boosted\, which will be verified at the door. Masks are required when not eating or drinking.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/womenwaterspirals-exhibition-launch/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Red Hen Press":MAILTO:media@redhen.org
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SUMMARY:Thea Prieto discusses From the Caves with guest\, The Last Exit author Michael Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Red Hen Press has teamed up with Lost City Bookstore in Washington\, D.C. for a virtual event series in 2022! \nJoin us in welcoming Thea Prieto as she discusses From the Caveswith guest\, The Last Exit author Michael Kaufman! \nAbout From the Caves: \nEnvironmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky\, a child coming of age; Tie\, pregnant and grieving; Mark\, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller\, an elder\, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows\, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor\, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead\, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge\, fragmented histories\, and half-buried creation myths. From the Caves presents the past\, present\, and future in tandem\, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood\, grief and hope\, endings and beginnings. \n*** \nThea Prieto is a recipient of the Laurels Award Fellowship\, as well as a finalist for the international Edwin L. Stockton\, Jr. Award and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. She writes and edits for Poets & Writers\, Propeller Magazine\, and The Gravity of the Thing\, and her work has also appeared at New Orleans Review\, Longreads\, Entropy\, The Masters Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she teaches creative writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College. From the Caves is her first book. \nMichael Kaufman\, PhD\, is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. As an advisor\, activist\, and keynote speaker\, he has developed innovative approaches to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality and positively transforming men’s lives. Over the past four decades his work with the United Nations\, governments\, non-governmental organizations\, corporations\, trade unions\, and universities has taken him to fifty countries. Michael is the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign\, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women. He volunteers as a senior fellow at Promundo (Washington D.C. ) and co-wrote its first State of the Worlds’ Fathers Report. He advised the French government in 2019 and the Canadian government in 2018 as a member of their respective G7 Gender Equality Advisory Councils. In 2017 he was awarded Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross. \nFrom the Caves will be available at Lost City Books!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/thea-prieto-discusses-from-the-caves-with-guest-the-last-exit-author-michael-kaufman/
LOCATION:Youtube Live
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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON: Charles Harper Webb and Carleton Eastlake at Vroman's!
DESCRIPTION:Join Charles Harper Webb\, author of Ursula Lake\, in conversation with Carleton Eastlake\, author of Monkey Business\, at Vroman’s in Pasadena! These two authors will discuss the themes toxic masculinity\, the dynamics of love and infatuation\, and the mysteries of seduction and life.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/in-person-charles-harper-webb-and-carleton-eastlake-at-vromans/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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SUMMARY:MONKEY BUSINESS Book Launch at Diesel\, a bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 7th at 3:00 pm as we welcome Carleton Eastlake to the store to discuss and sign Monkey Business! \nThis event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend. \nA conflicted TV writer on location in Florida becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at a nightclub when she upends everything he thought he understood about life\, limerence\, bonded love\, power\, creativity\, paintball combat\, and what psychologists and philosophers refer to as the Hard Problem of human consciousness. Monkeys — and parrots — do play a role. As does Chairman Mao. And\, in a cameo appearance\, NASA. It is in no way autobiographical. \nCarleton Eastlake graduated from UCLA in political science and psychology and from Harvard Law School with a concentration in law and the social sciences. After a career in public policy and consumer protection law\, being hired on Steven Spielberg’s series seaQuest confirmed him as a television writer-producer as well. He has shared in Edgar and Saturn awards and is a former board member of the Writers Guild of America West and a past President of PEN Center  USA. His wife\, Loraine Despres\, is a best-selling novelist\, television writer\, and tree-farmer. They live in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/monkey-business-book-launch-at-diesel-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Diesel\, a bookstore\, 225 26th Street. Suite 33\, Santa Monica\, CA\, 90402\, United States
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SUMMARY:LitFest Pasadena: Red Hen Day
DESCRIPTION:Join Red Hen Press and our literary community as we put on a complete day of literary programming! \n  \n1-2:15pm – State of Publishing Panel (featuring local publishers) \n2:45pm-4:00pm – Craft Panel \n4:30-5:45pm – Craft Workshop \n6:15-7:30pm – Reading with local authors
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/litfest-pasadena-red-hen-day/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Red Hen Press":MAILTO:media@redhen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T183000
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SUMMARY:Changing Hands Bookstore Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Authors Karen Brennan\, Kate Gale\, and Cynthia Hogue present and celebrate their most recent releases at Changing Hands Phoenix. \nABOUT THE LIVE EVENT \n\nWe’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing\, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.\nMasks are required.\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS \nAbout Television: A Memoir | Television is a fluid text that sometimes reads like poetry\, sometimes like prose\, while exploring classism\, ableism\, and feminism in a world defined by the advent of new media and\, for the author\, a privilege that often felt suffocating. \nAbout The Loneliest Girl | Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena’s temple\, transformed into a monster\, and banished into a cave\, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim-blaming. In The Loneliest Girl\, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame—for being a woman\, for not being enough\, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world–in which women find their way out from the cave of the Cisthene and into a world where they determine their own destiny. \nAbout Distantly | This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard’s lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush\, taut cityscapes. The poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The cities in Brossard’s poems feel surreal\, and in them dwell survivors of “misfortunes\,” living in urban landscapes with their “gleaming debris” and “bridges\, ghats\, / rivers in a time of peace and torture.” \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nKaren Brennan is the author of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and an AWP award\, she is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her stories\, poems\, and essays have been widely published in journals and magazines and have been included in anthologies from Norton\, Penguin\, Graywolf\, Georgia\, Michigan (among others) as well as The Best Small Fictions\, 2017 and An Anthology of Contemporary XXperimental Women Writers (Spuyten Duyvil). Since 1991\, she has served as core faculty for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Television\, a memoir is her eighth book. \nKate Gale is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press\, and Editor of the Los Angeles Review. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry\, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. In addition to The Loneliest Girl\, she is the author of seven books of poetry\, including The Goldilocks Zone (U of NM Press\, 2014) and Echo Light (Red Mountain P\, 2014). \nCynthia Hogue’s most recent collections are Revenance (2014) and In June the Labyrinth (2017). Her tenth collection\, instead\, it is dark\, will be out from Red Hen Press in 2023. Distantly by Nicole Brossard is her third co-translated volume. Hogue’s recent chapbook is entitled Contain (Tram Editions 2022). Her honors include two NEA Fellowships. She taught as the Marshall Chair in Poetry for fifteen years at ASU\, before retiring to Tucson.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/changing-hands-bookstore-author-event/
LOCATION:Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix\, 300 West Camelback Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kim Dower - I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound\, Kim’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. \nI Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother–childbirth to empty nest–as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness\, drama and conflict\, to finally caring for one’s mother suffering from dementia. \nCulled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work\, these poems\, heartbreaking\, funny\, surprising\, and touching\, explore the quirky\, unexpected observations\, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers\, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and explore the deep crevices and emotions of these impenetrable relationships: the love\, despair\, joy\, humor and gratitude that fills our lives. \nKim Dower\, Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood\, has published four highly acclaimed collections of poetry\, including the Gold Ippy Award winning collection Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave. She has been nominated for four Pushcarts\, is widely anthologized\, and teaches writing workshops for Antioch University\, the West Hollywood Library\, and UCLA Writer’s Extension.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/kim-dower-i-wore-this-dress-today-for-you-mom/
LOCATION:Book Passage – Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nevertheless\, She Persisted: Feminist Poetry and the Power of the Femme
DESCRIPTION:A Generative Poetry Workshop led by Khalisa Rae\nLevel: All Levels \nThis is a generative writing workshop designed to help women and femme writers unleash the power locked within in them through exploring the work of poignant women writers. Feminist writers like Audre Lorde\, Maggie Nelson\, Dorothy Chan\, Patricia Smith use writing as a tool of expression\, resistance\, and movement building. We will explore how the femme-centered literary work questions the status quo and challenges all systems of oppression while deepening our feminist roots in knowledge. We will hone our writing skills to not only tap into an unsung voice\, but also generate work that moves\, mesmerizes\, and motivates conversation. \nWe will also explore ways in which women writers\, particularly women and femme writers of color have had to articulate their pain and erasure in unique ways\, and will practice emulating that in hopes of also finding a balm\, a shovel\, a sharp talent to claw ourselves out and back to light. \n + PLEASE NOTE This workshop will occur online via Zoom. Students do not need to create an account to participate\, but should test out Zoom before their class if they are first-time users. On Thursday\, April 28th from 5:30pm to 6:00pm\, MWPA staff will offer a tech help session on Zoom. Students are encouraged to attend the tech help session\, which usually takes only 5-10 minutes\, if they have any tech concerns\, use Zoom infrequently\, or simply would like to test their connection\, and those who do not are responsible for ensuring that they are able to use Zoom on their own. The week of the workshop\, students will be emailed a link that they may click to enter the test session and the class. \n+ REQUIRED EQUIPMENT A reliable\, fast internet connection (broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE)\, speakers & a microphone (built-in or USB plug-in)\, and a webcam (built-in or USB plug-in). \nIf you would like to quickly and easily test your internet connection and your computer’s compatibility with Zoom\, click HERE. Full details on supported Operating Systems\, internet browsers\, and more can be found HERE. To download and familiarize yourself with Zoom\, click HERE.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/nevertheless-she-persisted-feminist-poetry-and-the-power-of-the-femme/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:ArtNight Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:Add your stories and art to Red Hen’s legacy! This year\, we’ll have individual literary and art activities for kids and adults alike: contribute to our community art wall by creating drawings\, filling in coloring pages\, writing your own 1-page story\, or creating black-out poems of your own! Author readings will be screened on-site and\, as always\, we’re happy to give tours of our publish world!
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/artnight-pasadena/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Academy of American Poets: Poetry & the Creative Mind
DESCRIPTION:Each year during National Poetry Month in April\, the Academy of American Poets presents a signature celebration of poetry’s important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers. \nOn April 28\, 2022\, the 19th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind will be exclusively presented online at 7:30 p.m. EDT\, making it available to poetry readers and lovers everywhere. RSVP to attend live for free.\n \nPoetry & the Creative Mind features leading and legendary actors\, dancers\, artists\, musicians\, and public figures sharing their favorite poems. Past readers have included Uzo Aduba\, Sam Beam\, Wayne Brady\, Glenn Close\, Claire Danes\, Tina Fey\, Terrance Howard\, Bill T. Jones\, Maya Lin\, Paul Simon\, Patti Smith\, Uma Thurman\, and Carrie Mae Weems\, as well as frequent Honorary Event Co-chair Meryl Streep. \nThis always-inspiring evening benefits the K–12 Education Program of the Academy of American Poets\, which reaches more than 100\,000 students each year with resources on Poets.org\, the Dear Poet project\, and materials created for National Poetry Month. \nPoetry & the Creative Mind is made possible thanks to the support of individuals and the event’s corporate sponsors\, including the publishers and companies helping to champion poetry and expand its readership of all ages as part of The Publishers Circle and The Young Readers Circle.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/academy-of-american-poets-poetry-the-creative-mind/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT Kim Dower: I Wore This Dress Today For You\, Mom
DESCRIPTION:A limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you! \nKim Dover will be sharing work from her fifth collection\, I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom. \nABOUT THE LIVE EVENT \n\nWe’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing\, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.\nMasks are required.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nKim Dower’s poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache\,” and by O Magazine as “unexpected and sublime.” Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound\, her poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother–childbirth to empty nest–as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness\, drama and conflict\, to finally caring for one’s mother suffering from dementia. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work\, these poems\, heartbreaking\, funny\, surprising\, and touching\, explore the quirky\, unexpected observations\, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers\, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and explore the deep crevices and emotions of these impenetrable relationships: the love\, despair\, joy\, humor and gratitude that fills our lives. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKim Dower\, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018)\, has published four collections of poetry\, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars\, described by the Los Angeles Times as\, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache\,” Slice of Moon\, called “unexpected and sublime\,” by “O” magazine\, Last Train to the Missing Planet\, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness\, memory and loss\, fragility and perseverance\,” said Richard Blanco\, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave\, winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry. Nominated for five Pushcart Prizes\, Kim’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals including Plume\, Ploughshares\, Rattle\, The James Dickey Review\, Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac\,” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.” Her poems are included in several anthologies\, notably\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond\, (Beyond Baroque Books/Pacific Coast Poetry Series\,) and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles\, (Tia Chucha Press.) She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University\, UCLA Extension Writer’s Program\, West Hollywood Library and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/author-event-kim-dower-i-wore-this-dress-today-for-you-mom/
LOCATION:Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix\, 300 West Camelback Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85012\, United States
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SUMMARY:POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP Kim Dower: "For Mothers and Anyone Who’s Ever Had a Mother Figure in their Life"
DESCRIPTION:This 90 minute poetry workshop is for poets and non-poets alike – for anyone who’d love to know how to plant the seeds for poems to grow. \nFrom the instructor: “Our time together will provide an opportunity to mine our memories and experiences\, our hearts and feelings and potentially awaken new\, startling poems. We will explore the rich soil of our childhoods – the places\, and emotions from our past and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing.  After hearing a prompt\, we will dive into ‘fever writing’ or ‘automatic writing\,’ and witness the magic we create!  With Mother’s Day coming up\, we will hear prompts that will inspire us to write our own poems – to and about our mothers and mother figures\, or just for gifts to ourselves!  Bring nothing but a pad and your favorite pen!” \nPLEASE NOTE:\nFollowing the workshop\, Kim will be sharing work from her fifth collection\, I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom\, published by Red Hen Press. 7PM TUESDAY\, APRIL 26\nA limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you!\nABOUT THE IN-PERSON WORKSHOP \n\nWe’re limiting attendance to allow for social distancing\, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission.\nMasks are required.\n\nWORKSHOP DETAILS \n\nCost: $30 per person. Includes admission to the workshop\, one (1) copy of I Wore This Dress Today for You\, Mom\, and one (1) drink ticket.\nRegister below.\nPlease have paper and pen or an electronic device to write on.\nRefunds will not be issued within one day of the event.\n\nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nKim Dower graduated from Emerson College where she also taught Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry. Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October\, 2016- October\, 2018\, Kim has published four\, highly acclaimed collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars\, Slice of Moon\, Last Train to the Missing Planet\, and the IPPY Award-winning collection\, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave. Kim’s poems have been widely anthologized and appear in journals such as The James Dickey Review\, Ploughshares\, Barrow Street\, Rattle\, Plume and The Writer’s Almanac.
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/poetry-writing-workshop-kim-dower-for-mothers-and-anyone-whos-ever-had-a-mother-figure-in-their-life/
LOCATION:Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix\, 300 West Camelback Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85012\, United States
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SUMMARY:SWANA Songs: Performance and Praxis (New Moons Event)
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25; Student workshop on Tuesday April 26. \nKrause studio\, AMS\, Evanston  \n  \nTwo solo performances (Noelle Ghoussaini and Mariam Bazeed) and a student workshop (led by Noelle Ghoussaini) will explore the connection between performance\, embodiment and social praxis for SWANA artists. \nOrganized by Performance Studies\, hosted by MENA Mondays. \n  \nNoelle Ghoussaini is a celebrated multidisciplinary theatre artist: a director\, writer\, activist\, educator and performer (NU alum\, ’07 Performance Studies and French\, minor in Africana Studies). \nMariam Bazeed’s work across genres has been published in print and online\, and their plays performed in festivals in the United States and abroad.  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by: \nNorthwestern University School of Communication \nAlice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities  \nDepartment of Performance Studies  \nMiddle East Studies Committee and Liberal Art Program\, Northwestern University in Qatar \nDepartment of Gender and Sexuality Studies \nMiddle East and North African Studies Program \nProgram of African Studies
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/swana-songs-performance-and-praxis-new-moons-event/
LOCATION:CA
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