Douglas Cole has published four collections of poetry. His work appears in journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Chiron, The Galway Review, The Pinyon Review, Solstice, Eastern Iowa Review, Kentucky Review, Wisconsin Review, and Slipstream. He has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net, and has received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry; the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House; First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway. His website is douglastcole.com. Dan Gutstein is the author of non/fiction (stories, 2010), Bloodcoal & Honey (poems, 2011), and Buildings Without Murders (novel, 2020). His writing has appeared in more than 100 journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, American Scholar, Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, TriQuarterly, The Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner. He has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the University of Michigan, where he was a Colby Fellow. In addition to writing activities, he is vocalist for punk-jazz band Joy on Fire, who will be performing a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR in July 2020, and co-director of a forthcoming documentary film, Li’l Liza Jane: A Movie About A Song. At present, he is a nomad, dividing his time between the crashable couches of Trenton, N.J. and other scenic overlooks. Poet, short story writer, and novelist Shann Ray grew up in Montana and Alaska and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. His work has been featured in Poetry, Esquire, McSweeney's, Prairie Schooner, Big Sky Journal, Narrative, and Salon. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and winner of the American Book Award and the High Plains Book Award, he is the author of American Masculine, American Copper, Atomic Theory 432, Balefire, Sweetclover, and Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity. A clinical psychologist specializing in the psychology of men, he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. Because of his wife and three daughters, he believes in love.
Mike Dillon’s Bainbridge Island roots reach back four generations. He lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound a few miles north of Bainbridge and twelve miles northwest of Seattle. Four books of his poetry have been published by Bellowing Ark Press, including “That Which We Have Named,” (2008). Red Moon Press has published three books of his haiku, including “The Road Behind” (2003). Several of his haiku were included in “Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years,” W.W. Norton (2013). He is a retired publisher of community newspapers, a field he entered inspired by the example of Walt and Milly Woodward, who defended their Japanese American neighbors in the pages of their newspaper, the Bainbridge Review, during World War II. In 2013 the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association recognized Dillon with its Master Editor/Publisher award. Stories from Dallas native, Cynthia C. Sample, have appeared in NumeroCinq, Summerset Review, Sleet, Blue Lake Review, Starlight Literary Journal and others. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Vermont College and a Ph.D. in finance from University of Texas at Dallas.
Ellie White has been over-dramatic since 1986. She holds a BA in English from The Ohio State University, and an MFA from Old Dominion University. Ellie writes nonfiction and poetry. She is also the creator of the comic strip “Uterus & Ellie.” Her work has been published in Foundry, Slant, and The Columbia Review, as well as many other journals. Ellie’s first poetry chapbook, Requiem for a Doll, won the ELJ Publications Poetry Mini-Collection Contest was released in June 2015. Her second chapbook, Drift, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in Fall 2019. This is her first full-length collection. Ellie’s work has won an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize, a Best of the Net nomination, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. Ellie served as a poetry editor at Barely South Review for three years. She also served as a nonfiction and poetry editor for Four Ties Literary Review for two years. Ellie is currently a social media editor and reader at Muzzle Magazine. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and works full-time in the insurance industry. Head to the Events calendar to join the reading. It's free and fun! Carla Sarett is a poet, essayist and fiction writer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Thimble, Blue Unicorn, San Pedro River Review, Naugatuck River Review, ONE Art, Hobart Pulp, Across the Margins, Prole and elsewhere; her essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. THE LOOKING GLASS, a novella, (Propertius Press) was published in October, 2021. Carla has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. A CLOSET FEMINIST is her debut novel.
Alli Spotts-De Lazzer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, a “CEDS” Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, a CEDS Supervisor, and a person on the other side of her own decades-long struggle with food battles and body dislike. Alli has presented educational workshops at conferences, graduate schools, and hospitals; published articles in academic journals, trade magazines, and online information hubs; and appeared as an eating disorders expert on local news. Her professional-related volunteerism includes co-chairing committees for both the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and the Academy for Eating Disorders and creating #ShakeIt for Self-Acceptance!®, a series of public events sparking conversations about self-acceptance through fun, motivating messages. She was named the 2017 iaedp Member of the Year, and Mayor Garcetti recognized July 13, 2017 as “#ShakeIt for Self-Acceptance! Day” in the City of Los Angeles. Alli feels fortunate to share MeaningFULL with readers. She regards it as, “the book I needed years ago. I hope it helps.” Kendra Preston Leonard is a poet, lyricist, and librettist whose work is inspired by the local, historical, and mythopoeic. She is especially interested in addressing issues of social justice, the environment, and disability through poetry. Her first chapbook, Making Mythology, was published in 2020 by Louisiana Literature Press, and her work appears in numerous publications including vox poetica, lunch, These Fragile Lilacs, and Upstart: Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed. Leonard collaborates regularly with composers on works for voice including new operas and song cycles. Her lyrics and libretti have been set by composers including Jessica Rudman, Rosśa Crean, and Allyssa Jones. The author of numerous scholarly books and articles, Leonard is also a musicologist and music theorist, and her academic work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and the early modern; and music and screen history. Follow her on Twitter at @K_Leonard_PhD or visit her site at https://kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org/. Head to the events calendar to login to the reading. Emily Kiernan is the author of a novel, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press). Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Pank, The Collagist, Redivider, JMWW, The Conium Review, Unstuck, and numerous other journals. She has received support from The MacDowell Colony, The Ucross Foundation, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among other organizations. She holds an MFA in Writing and Critical Studies from The California Institute of the Arts, and is a prose editor at Noemi Press and a fiction editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks.
Kendra Preston Leonard is a poet, lyricist, and librettist whose work is inspired by the local, historical, and mythopoeic. She is especially interested in addressing issues of social justice, the environment, and disability through poetry. Her first chapbook, Making Mythology, was published in 2020 by Louisiana Literature Press, and her work appears in numerous publications including vox poetica, lunch, These Fragile Lilacs, and Upstart: Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed. Leonard collaborates regularly with composers on works for voice including new operas and song cycles. Her lyrics and libretti have been set by composers including Jessica Rudman, Rosśa Crean, and Allyssa Jones. The author of numerous scholarly books and articles, Leonard is also a musicologist and music theorist, and her academic work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and the early modern; and music and screen history. Follow her on Twitter at @K_Leonard_PhD or visit her site at https://kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org/. Are you ready for the first reading of 2022? We are! Join us on January 5, 2022 with esteemed authors Patricia O' Donnell and Adam Gibbs.
Patricia O’Donnell is a Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere; her books include two novels, a memoir, and a collection of short fiction which won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award. She lives in Wilton, Maine, with her husband. Adam Gibbs is a writer and poet from Grove City, Ohio. His work has appeared in Second Chance Lit and The Mark Literary Review. His novella, Dumb Luck, is available from Unsolicited Press. He lives with his wife Lindsay and their children, Clara and Isaac Unsolicited Press is inviting you to a reading with S.B. Borgersen and Margaret DeRitter.
S.B. Borgersen is a British/Canadian author, of middle England and Hebridean ancestry, whose favoured genres are flash and micro fiction, and poetry. She had a diverse career path, an analyst in a shoe factory, the same thing for a children’s book publisher, teaching art, and filing for the civil service, but mostly she climbed a precarious ladder in the IT industry culminating in strategy and project management, which, by necessity in those days, included writing writing writing mountains of non-fiction — always allowing herself to be slightly creative with proposals, reports, technical and training documentation. Sue turned her back on industry and commerce in the early nineties, escaping the stressful rat-race and finding the simple life and peaceful place she’d always sought to allow for creativity. That place was Nova Scotia where she returned to her skills from art school and made an uncomplicated living as a visual artist and potter. That is, until she got the creative writing bug. Since 2000 her writing has won prizes, been mentioned in Hansard and published internationally in literary journals and anthologies (print and online). The list of publications is extensive and can be found at www.sueborgersen.com. She is a loyal member of The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and an enthusiastic member of the international online writers' group for expats, Writers Abroad. Sue lives in a crumbling old house on the shores of Nova Scotia with her patient husband and a clutch of lovable rowdy dogs. She has two middle-aged children. ---- Margaret DeRitter is the poetry editor and copy editor of Encore, a regional magazine based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was a winner of the 2018 Celery City Chapbook Contest, sponsored by Kalamazoo’s Friends of Poetry, for her chapbook Fly Me to Heaven By Way of New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Surprised By Joy (Wising Up Press) and Queer Around the World (Qommunicate Publishing) and in a number of journals, including The 3288 Review, which nominated her poem “At the top of Sleeping Bear Dunes” for a Pushcart Prize. DeRitter has also written numerous magazine and newspaper articles. She worked for 22 years at the Kalamazoo Gazette and has taught journalism at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. She was born and raised in New Jersey and has lived in Michigan since college. When not writing or editing, she often paddles Michigan lakes and rivers. Access the event on our Events Calendar. Unsolicited Press is inviting you to a reading with C.M. Chapman and Larry D. Thacker.
What scares you more? The monster under your bed or the one staring back at you in the mirror? Authors C.M. Chapman and Larry Thacker blur the lines between the kinds of monsters that roam the earth in their latest short story collection, EVERYDAY, MONSTERS. In twenty-one stories, readers encounter monsters ranging from mythological, psychological, maliciously human, and darkly comical. Monsters creep from the deepest parts of humanity, the kind that we are born with, proving that even those with the best senses can overlook shadowy lurking beasts. Chapman and Thacker execute with skill everyday storytelling that leaves readers in a sense of wonder and wondering if what they know is truth or make believe. C.M. Chapman’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Cheat River Review, Limestone, Still: The Journal, Dark Mountain Project in the U.K., and the anthology, So It Goes: A Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut. He is the author of the chapbook, Music & Blood, from Latham House Press, and his novel-in-stories, Suicidal Gods, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2019. He is a graduate of the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he served as The McKinney Teaching Fellow for three years and as an adjunct professor. Larry D. Thacker’s stories can be found in past issues of The Still Journal, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Dime Show Review, Vandalia Journal, and Grotesque Quarterly. His stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart and once for a Best of the Net recognition. His poetry can be found in over 170 publications, including Still: The Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, Tower Poetry Society, Spillway, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Town Creek Poetry, and Appalachian Heritage. His books are Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia, the short story collection, Working it Off in Labor County, and the poetry books, Feasts of Evasion, Grave Robber Confessional, Voice Hunting, Memory Train, and Drifting in Awe. His MFA in poetry and fiction is from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He serves as adjunct instructor at Northeast State Community College. Visit: www.larrydthacker.com To access the event, head over to our Events Calendar. Unsolicited Press is happy to host a reading with Rosalia Scalia and Taylor Garcia.
As your family is bright, so is it dark. Sure, the love and laughter of family lingers in your heart, yet it’s the secrets, pranks, and punishments that haunt your soul. The mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons in Functional Families all seek only love to cure their familial ills, but they often go about it in strange ways. To come to terms with his father’s past and encroaching dementia, Reynold Vasquez takes his father out for one last fancy dinner in “Bird Dog,” while in “Bat Out of Hell,” Margaret abandons her mother at a Tijuana gas station hoping to move on with her life. In “My First War,” young cadet Gilbert Fernandez goes AWOL from a pretend battlefield to be with his pregnant girlfriend on the verge of an abortion, and in “Wheel of Fortune,” Hillary Clinton visits a homegirl fortune teller in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the end, these disparate souls resolve their desperate actions to return to their nuclei, the only places they can call home. In STUMBLING TOWARD GRACE, Rosalia Scalia explores how people who love each other struggle to reconnect their fractured relationships in the face of traumas, personal flaws, and unspoken hurts. Many of her stories explore loss and grief with humor and grace as characters navigate their unwise decisions, unexpected deaths, or their resentments polished into gems. Overall this collection offers readers stories about ordinary people striving to survive and thrive in situations reflective of today’s challenges. Join us on November 30th via Zoom. Access the free reading on our events calendar: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/events.html Unsolicited Press is hosting a joint reading with Washington authors Jay Kristensen Jr. and Trevor J. Houser.
Trevor J. Houser lives with his family in Seattle. He has published stories in Zyzzyva, Story Quarterly and The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, among others. Three of his stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Jay Kristensen Jr. was born and raised in Seattle. He has lived around the country and currently resides in Seattle. Light in Rosadero is his debut novel. Access the event using our events calendar: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/events.html Unsolicited Press is happy to host a reading featuring Brook Bhagat and Frances Badalamenti.
Only Flying by Brook Bhagat is a collection of surreal free verse and prose poetry that celebrates transformation and paradox, exploring both the silence of the seeker and the outrageous wilderness of the imagination. Thematic threads like rebellion, enlightenment, risk, courage, love, loss, and triumph dance to life with pictures that swing from dark to light, surreal to whimsical, and strange to familiar. There are intimate goddesses here, black widows, buddhas, alley cats, a kangaroo, and magic pants—blacklight-blue Hendrix flares that hang from a fire escape, just waiting for the right person to jump up and steal them. That person is you. Salad Days by Frances Badalmenti vacillates between youth-driven cultures of mid-nineties era Jersey and early aughts Portland. As the dual story unfolds, we witness the twenty-something protagonist, Ana, as she takes a crack at being an adult, navigating friendships and searching for intimate relationships, maintaining jobs and managing money. All the while, she does her best to repair a broken moral compass without an owner’s manual. The reading will feature both authors reading and if there is time at the end, a casual Q+A. You can join the event by clicking on the Zoom link listed on the events calendar: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/events.html. We would like to invite you to attend a virtual reading Jay Kristensen Jr., author of LIGHT IN ROSADERO. The virtual reading will include a brief reading by Jay followed by questions and answers that participants may have -- we anticipate an informal and flexible environment. The event will start at 10AM and last for 30-45 minutes. Participants go head to our events calendar to join the reading. We ask that participants enter the reading 5 minutes early. We will not admit participants after 10AM to avoid disruption to the reading. About the BookOn the windswept plains of Far West Texas, the town of Rosadero sits at the crossroads of many worlds. Renowned as a capital of postmodern art, the ruins of the Zaldos Pueblo haunt the edge of town with the mystery of a vanished people. In the evenings, unexplained balls of light streak across the prairie, inspiring the imaginations of residents and visitors alike. Home to rancher dynasties and descendants of the Mexican Revolution, the modern realities of the border sweep up all who find themselves in Rosadero. Outlaw drifters with romantic dreams, border agents at war with their consciences, refugees seeking sanctuary, and the family risking everything to provide it—this is where their stories meet. Into this unlikeliest of settings, Anna Tatevyan travels in search of her missing brother, Jakob. A graduate student obsessed with the relationship between a sitting U.S. Congressman and an international crime syndicate, Jakob has vanished into the high desert without a trace. On her journey for the truth, Anna tries to help another woman also searching for a missing brother: Mariazul Bautista, a woman whose encounter with Anna leads to her arrest by the Border Patrol, an arrest that turns out to be a kidnapping. An anti-Western about the American origins of global violence, Light in Rosadero is a reckoning with the dark legacy of the frontier. About the AuthorJay Kristensen Jr. was born and raised in Seattle. He has lived around the country and currently resides in Seattle. Light in Rosadero is his debut novel.
Join us for an evening of festivities, literature, and potential technical glitches as we host a virtual reading with esteemed authors Anne Leigh Parrish and Terry Tierney. Both authors will read from a selection of their choosing and we will banter/converse afterwards. The event is on October 2, 2021 at 5PM Pacific. You can RSVP here. About the Authors
Books by Terry Tierney and Anne Leigh ParrishAfter much consideration, we have decided to participiate in the SMOL Fair. SMOL Fair is an alternative, virtual book fair that will be 'live' from March 3-7, 2021. Many of our books will be on sale during the book festival because we want everyone to have access to the book discounts we'd normally offer at an in-person book fair. Several of our authors will be hosting live readings throughout the duration of the book fair. You can find the events schedule for the SMOL Fair here. You can also learn about each author and event directly below. NOTE: Not all readings are listed here. Some authors may have opted to give a reading after the deadline for this post. Please check the SMOL Fair's Events Calendar for the most up-to-date schedule. The Messiah's Customary Diner Booth Reading with Marion Deal Time: Mar 5, 2021, 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Sit. The Messiah's Customary Diner Booth welcomes you. Yes, you: no matter what truth you're spinning, so long as you're spinning it earnestly. You've got a place with these poems cast as an intellectual fossil record of shit and summoners and something that Rimbaud would probably like, poems as a gathering ground for Soviet spies and child prophets, disaffected professors and radiant spinsters. Share a soggy grilled cheese with drifters who could just as easily show up enshrined on a tablet of Sumerian pictograms as lounge in a 50s diner. We're open all night Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84461815184?pwd=ajZHZzZEK0tFU3F5VFZ0OTd1Q3VxUT09 Meeting ID: 844 6181 5184 Passcode: CuQWk6 A Reading with Christopher G. Bremicker Day & Time: Wednesday, March 3rd at 7:00 PM Eastern Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84859950320?pwd=Mlp3dVpuTnpaRmJVYlV4R1ZUSVJSUT09 Eagle Claw and Other Stories is a work of great variety. The title story is fiction about the aborted mission of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces to free the hostages held in Tehran under the Carter administration. A Reading with Cameron Miller Day & Time: Friday, March 5th at 5:00 PM Eastern A reading of poems paired with photographs from the 2020 publication, “Cairn, poems and essays.” Email rcammiller@gmail to receive a zoom invitation to the reading. Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in CAIRN: POEMS AND ESSAYS. After decades of reading and ogling poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. The elements of nature are this poet's paint but he also paddles a gondola through the dark channels of the mind while lighting the way. Reading from The Vigilance of Stars with Patricia O’Donnell Day & Time: Mar 4, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Synopsis: Four characters’ lives intertwine in this novel, spanning the 1950’s through the present. Kiya, a young hair stylist, is taken in by her former boyfriend’s mother as she struggles through a difficult pregnancy, and grief over her brother’s suicide. The book moves toward a confrontation with both life and death on an isolated island in rural Maine. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/82185283100?pwd=cXh3UmhtMEwwbXVvOVV3dEhibXJFQT09 Password: 296597 Or Telephone: US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 408 638 0968 or +1 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 821 8528 3100 From a Polycom or other H.323 room system that is not a member of a video conference, click call on the remote and dial one of the following IP addresses followed by # the meeting ID and # again: 162.255.36.11 (US East) 162.255.37.11 (US West) Meeting ID: 821 8528 3100 Password: 296597 A Reading with Joseph Allen Costa Day & Time: Thursday, March 4th 6:00 PM Eastern Built on stunning character development, plot, and unflinching emotion, Joseph Allen Costa delivers stunning prose perfect for the times. The settings, both personal and universal, are not only tangible in the imagination, but they invite the reader in to experience stories from the heart.The twelve-story, linked collection, COMETS, follows through-line protagonist, Roberto, as he grows from a working teenager influenced by the men in his father’s cabinet shop, to a disillusioned 42, unwittingly trying to fill his father’s shoes, while searching for a deeper understanding of himself and his life. Set in Ybor City, Tampa’s Latin Quarter, the stories capture a microcosm of blue collar problems, with implications that go beyond racial, economic and cultural boundaries, illuminating a greater understanding of the human experiences we all share, while loss of childhood resonates as an overarching theme. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81374267510?pwd=aFpjMFdRWU8rbzQxWFZtWnE0UU9WUT09 Meeting ID: 813 7426 7510 Passcode: 720341 Alli Spotts DeLazzer Reads from MeaningFULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues Day & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 7pm EST/4pm PST Where: Where else? Zoom! THIS MEETING WILL BE RECORDED AND LIKELY SHARED ON SOCIALS https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87145303043 Meeting ID: 871 4530 3043 / Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvQ9VzEC A Reading with Rosalia Scalia When: Fri March 5 at 2:30 pm ET (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81219388790?pwd=OHpsTXJnSVE5Ym8rNForaldTRTd3dz09 Meeting ID: 812 1938 8790 Passcode: 790397 One tap mobile Meeting ID: 812 1938 8790 Passcode: 790397 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdsFLs0v9l Tyler James Russell—SMOL Reading Day & Time: Friday, March 5th 6:00 PM Eastern A reading and QA session as part of the SMOL Book Fair! Please visit TylerJamesRussell.com for more information and a link to the Zoom reading. tylerjamesrussell.com A Reading from the Forthcoming Book, Pacific, by Trevor J. Houser Day & Time: Friday, March 5th 7:00 PM Eastern A reading from my debut novel, Pacific. Would you be willing to kidnap your child to save his life and set sail in search of a doctor that may hold the key to his survival when everyone else has given up? Pacific by Trevor J. Houser discovers what a desperate father is willing to do to save his son’s life…even if it means braving deadly storms at home and on the run. Info to follow. Reading from “The Realm of Blessing" with Wayne Berard-Daniel Day & Time: Friday, March 5th 7:00 PM Eastern Join reading from my book of poetry, “The Realm of Blessing." Visit www.waynedanielberard.com A Reading with Thomas Calder, Author of The Wind Under the Door Day & Time: March 5th, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time Starting over is always easier among strangers. For Ford Carson, the process meant leaving behind the waves of South Florida in order to forge a new life as a visual artist in the mountains of North Carolina. At the peak of his reinvention, he meets Grace Burnett—a young, wealthy Texas transplant in the midst of her own transformation. A mutual infatuation develops. But when Grace’s estranged husband arrives complications ensue. Matters only worsen when Ford’s own estranged son announces plans to visit for his eighteenth birthday. Thomas Calder’s debut novel explores the lasting impact of broken bonds and the unanticipated ways the past haunts those on the run. Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77985213529?pwd=OGZvSC95K0Qxd1pVMmkwdU5Nd3huQT09 Meeting ID: 779 8521 3529 Passcode: PP4W8V A Reading from A WINTER NIGHT with Anne Leigh Parrish Day & Time: Saturday, March 6th 3:00 PM Eastern Email to anneleighparrish@comcast for the Zoom link More Info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-from-a-winter-night-tickets-143390088615?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail 34-year-old Angie Dugan struggles with many things-anxiety, her career as a social worker in a retirement home, and her difficult family. Her biggest struggle, though, is finding love. When she meets Matt, she's swept away by his attention. As issues from his past come up she wonders if she can trust him... Jason Graff reads from heckler Day & Time: Saturday, March 6th 7:00 PM EST Author Jason Graff will be reading selected sections from his Pen Faulkner nominated novel heckler Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88903246118?pwd=cFN0MlcxM21tMmVXK3ZlS3dWbDRoUT09 Poetry from Kathmandu by Anuja Ghimire Day & Time: Sunday, 11:30 AM Contact poet on Twitter for more information. @GhimireAnuja Kathmandu is the reflection of an immigrant mother raising her children in America. Memories of the poet's home, Kathmandu, creep into every moment as she attempts to find a place in her new world. Ghimire flails with grace -- her words work to make sense of the new all while trying to reckon with the past. Author Reading: Even the Milky Way is Undocumented / Amy Shimshon-Santo Sunday, March 7 from 2:00 - 3:00pm PST Poet Amy Shimshon-Santo reads from Even The Milky Way is Undocumented with Maverick writer Gayle Brandeis. Sunday, March 7 from 2:00 - 3:00pm PST Broadcasting Info: You Tube Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYy3vzoJv_Ykp5H-j2hK-A; Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/amy.shimshonsanto/ Many of these titles will be available at discounted prices on our site from March 3rd-7th.
The COVID-19 pandemic has really taken a toll on writers who rely on in-person events. Luckily, Terry Tierney isn't letting his craft be forgotten. Here he is reading. Terry has a poetry collectoon releasing in May 2020. If you can support him, buy a copy of his book. The Poet’s Garage by Terry Tierney is a provocative poetry collection enriched by deep images that refuse to remain static. Poems begin with epiphany-esque imagery only to morph into something radically new. Readers may begin a poem at Dairy Queen only to find themselves witnessing the implications of homelessness. Tierney weaves through poems with lucid metaphor, tinted lenses (which are not rose-colored), and painful memories made beautiful through language.
Copies are available through our website as well as other retailers such as Amazon, Smashwords, and Your Favorite Independent Retailer. murmurs at the gate – Suzanne S. Rancourt’s second book of poetry uses both fictional and auto- biographical events to create a chorus of survivors. These poems are for the unspeakable, the marginalized, the “in-betweeners,” create a chorus of survivors in the theatre of life’s sorrow, love, tragedy, beauty, and profound human resiliency. Ms. Rancourt’s life attests to being a survivor, and states, “Prejudice is non- discriminatory.” murmurs at the gate, is a poetic narrative that explores the harsh measures of life’s wars.
Ms. Rancourt will be featured at many readings, workshops, and festival throughout the remainder of 2019 and into 2020. Here is a list of events you may want to attend: Upcoming Events featuring Suzanne S. Rancourt (author of MURMURS AT THE GATE): --Voices of Poetry- Off the Wall August 6, 2019 at 6:00 PM Reading, Q&A, signing Tao Water Art Gallery 1989 Main St., W. Barnstable, MA (508) 375-0428 / www.taowatergallery.com ------------ Hudson Valley Writers Center August 16, 2019 at 7:00 pm Featured Reader 300 Riverside Dr., Sleepy Hollow, NY 914.332.5953 https://www.writerscenter.org/ ------------ Caffe Lena's September 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm Featured Reader 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY ----------- The Book Loft September 26, 2019 at 7:00 pm Reading, signing 332 Stockbridge Rd., Great Barrington, MA 01230 ------------ Bear Pond Books October 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm 77 Main Street Montpelier, VT Native Voices Reading. ------------ Eden Cafe, October 20, 2019 at 11:00 am Special Guest at Outliers 269 Osborne Rd. #3, Loudonville, NY 12211 ------------ Straw Dog Writers Guild February 2, 2020 from 2 - 4 pm Featured reader, Q&A, Belding Memorial Library 344 Main St., Ashfield, MA 01330 http://beldingmemoriallibrary.org/ We will have limited quantities of books available, so you may want to purchase a book if you have your heart set on getting a signed copy. Otherwise take your chances and stop by to say hello.
Oregon poet Carolyn Martin will launch her new collection, A Penchant for Masquerades at the Milwaukie Poetry Series on March 13, 2019. Dedicated to those who have a penchant for doubting everything and nothing, this book is an eclectic combination of the personal and universal, the formal and experimental, the playful and profound. The event will be held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Ledding Library Pond House, 2215 SE Harrison, Milwaukie, OR. About the CollectionLaunched on February 12, 2019, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships.
Martin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking. Since she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously (“Re-Entry Interview,” “A Case for Sudden Death”). She riffs on an Issa haiku (“Thoughts on a Translation”), sits down to dinner with Horace (“Notes from a Water Drinker”), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection (“To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much”). Martin’s forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word (“Phonaethetics,” “Disambiguation,” “Stirring”), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways (“Variations on Final Words,” “10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry,” “90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins”). A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing. You can purchase a copy directly from the publisher or at any major retailer. |
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